In the meantime, just to get my own taste buds salivating again for cake, here's an image of the glorious edibles I have been indulging in during my visit to Hameln recently...
I give you...Pfirsich-Sahne küchen (German peach cream cake)!!
Can I at this point let you know that the point of me taking this photo while ecstatically eating this most light, 'deluscious', creamy, not over sweet, pastry-yet-cake-like confection was to try and replicate it when I got home. That's my feeble excuse anyway.
That's enough reminiscing for now, I must away to sustain myself with a slice of homemade shortbread and a cup of Kenya coffee. Not quite in the same league but I'm hoping the shortbread will be good. Tis a secret recipe - available in exchange for others of the same, of course...