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Tokyo, Japan

Futaba Cake Building

This giant two-tier celebration cake serves as a befitting advert for the confectionery college it sits on top of.
Tampa, Florida

Harry Waugh Dessert Room at Bern’s Steak House

At Bern's Steak House, there's always room for dessert—it's just upstairs.
Véronique and Anaëlle Fontanel hold their Hello Kitty set of fèves.
collections

The Weird, Wonderful World of Collecting French Cake Figurines

Porcelain or plastic, Harry Potter or copulating couple, fèves come in all shapes and sizes.
Emily Monaco December 8, 2023
A small Lancashire courting cake
Gastro Obscura

Lancashire Courting Cake

Before dating apps, young people used this cake to express their feelings.
Caraway and candied citrus flavor the buttery sponge.
cake

Welsh Sheep-Shearing Cake Is a Forgotten Pastoral Pleasure

Cacen gneifo was a traditional gift for farmhands during wool-gathering season.
Jamie Ellis September 22, 2023
Gastro Obscura

Flódni

This multi-layered treat has become a potent symbol of Hungarian-Jewish identity.
Lakeland, Florida

Publix Cake Water Tower

A towering, steel behemoth that has graced the skyline of Lakeland, Florida since the early 1980s.
Munich, Germany

Kuchentratsch

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.
Barbie cakes are a birthday classic.
dolls

Before Barbie and Barbie Cakes, There Was Dolly and Dolly Varden Cakes

These toy-filled birthday cakes have an intriguing connection to both Charles Dickens and Australia.
Cathleen Freedman July 20, 2023
It's not hard to find the ingredients for this simple vegan cake.
food

Lost Something? Make This Greek Saint's Cake

Fanouropita has a mystical reputation.
Rossi Anastopoulo June 27, 2023
Gastro Obscura

Doberge Cake

This towering treat is a slice of New Orleans immigrant history.
The entrance to Konditorei Buchwald.
Berlin, Germany

Konditorei Buchwald

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”
The first “red” chocolate cakes were barely red at all.
food

Red Velvet Cake's Journey to The Juneteenth Table

Make the dessert that first inspired the popular crimson slice.
Diana Hubbell May 15, 2023
The Gloucester Cathedral–shaped lamprey pie for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
medieval

5 of Our Favorite Odd Traditions of English Royalty

From a coronation pie made of lampreys to someone to chat with you in the loo.
April White April 26, 2023
Seattle, Washington

Byen Bakeri

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.
Maple Bourbon Cream, Hazelnut Nutella Crunch, Ginger Molasses Stout, Pumpkin Brown Butter, among others.
Seattle, Washington

Deep Sea Sugar & Salt

This fog-enshrouded, antique corner store sells individual slices of wedding-fancy layer cakes from a window.
Bolo-rei often comes with a coin—signifying good fortune—and a bean—signifying who buys the next cake—inside.
food

7 Weird and Wonderful King Cakes From Around the World

From slips of Bulgarian fortunes to copulating French figurines, international king cakes hide many surprises.
Matt Haines February 20, 2023
The top tier of Shizuo and Frances’s wedding cake, which has miraculously survived since they were married in 1943.
objects of intrigue

Found: An 80-Year-Old Wedding Cake With a Tragic Past

Frances Nishimura preserved this sweet keepsake for generations.
Natasha Varner February 16, 2023