I haven't yet been to Vienna, but I'm sure the Austrians create some elegant cakes/tortes --like the Germans and French. Of course there is the famous sachertorte. Surprisingly, Czech cuisine does NOT feature elegant cakes. It's heavier and more plain stuff...and we kept running into strudels. Nice, but it's not a cake.
My criteria list on quality tortes and cakes...is having the benefit of tasting my partner's mother's homemade elegant tortes based on traditional German recipes ...for 10 years before she died.
These are recipes that are NOT comparable at all to any of the English language pastry chef books from even the star/celebrity chefs that you see on the book market.
Linzertorte, the German torte with raspberry preserves on top with lattice top....if made with correct pastry, etc. is supposed to age over several weeks to deepen flavour after its baked.
My partner and I have scoured the cookbook shelves in bookstores over the years because he buys gift specialty cookbooks for his son-chef (who is lead chef for Toronto's community centre cooking school for troubled /hard to employ youth/folks. Something like British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver who tried to groom such youth mentorship program for one of his TV shows.)
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