The earliest cakes were made from a few simple ingredients that symbolized ancient religious myths and miraculous superstitions. Early trade routes involved the importation of exotic spices from the Far East to the North, nuts, floral essences, citrus fruits and figs from the Middle East, and sugar cane from the East and South. During the Dark Ages in Europe, these exotic ingredients were only available to the companions and nobility, whose pastry creations consisted of things like honeyed sweetbreads and flat, hard cookies.

Slowly, as trade became more frequent, the eating habits of the West changed radically. Soldiers and Arab traders returning home from the Crusades spread the use of spices and Middle Eastern recipes. In the main commercial towns of several Central European countries, bakers' guilds were organized.

By the end of the Middle Ages, spices were widely used by the wealthy in all parts of Europe, adding to the imaginative techniques of pastry baking. When nuts and sugar became popular, so did marzipan, which was baked in carved wooden molds with raised panels and designs associated with religious admonitions.

Different cake origins The origins of the cake

Italian desserts---Tiramisu

On the origin of Tiramisu, there is a heartwarming story: during the Second World War, an Italian soldier was going to go out to war, but the addition of what has nothing left, his loving wife in order to prepare him dry food , all the cookies and bread that can be eaten at home were made into a pastry, and that pastry was called Tiramisu. Whenever the soldier ate tiramisu on the battlefield he would think of his home and his beloved ones.

Tiramisu, which means "take me away" in Italian, takes away not only the flavor, but also the love and happiness.

Austrian desserts ------ sand shelf cake

Sand shelf cake originated in 1832, a prince's home cook Franz. Sacher developed a sweet and incomparable chocolate trap, loved by the royal family. Sacher developed a sweet and savory chocolate trap that was a favorite of the royal family. Later, Sache Ho-te, a restaurant frequented by aristocrats at the time, also used the sand frame cake as its signature snack. However, its exclusive secret recipe is still the subject of a contentious dessert lawsuit, with one pastry store, Demel, claiming to have purchased the original recipe from a member of the Sache family for a large sum of money, and the Sache Hotel insisting that only their cake honors the traditional tastes of the founders. Despite the unresolved lawsuit, the unique combination of chocolate and apricot has spread around the world, and has been reproduced by tens of thousands of pastry chefs, making it a national treasure of Austria.

Austrian desserts ------ Stollenkuchen

Hundreds of years in the day, the shape of the ancient, complicated, the proportion of ingredients is obsessive, only a handful of old pastry store masters will do. In Austria, Stollenkuchen is a rare and precious cake, and its value is as high as that of a sand cake. ChaoNuo pastry store is the source of the mysterious delicious Stollen cake, it is said that its flavor, shape from the nineteenth century, has never changed, all handmade, only know that its ingredients are almonds, hazelnuts, sugar, chocolate and Austria's unique round cake (Oblaten), as for the recipe, the practice of the ChaoNuo pastry store, only two masters know. The Stollen cake is so sweet and charming, and has such a long aftertaste, that it is impossible for anyone with a sweet tooth to eat more than a few. Even at the old Asano store, only 1,300 Stollen cakes are produced each year.

Japanese desserts ------Castella cake

In the 17th century, Portuguese missionaries and merchants came to Nagasaki across the ocean, and the things they brought with them, such as glass, tobacco, bread and so on, were novelties to the locals, and in order to build up friendships with each other, these outsiders came up with ways to curry favor with the locals, with the missionaries distributing wine to the nobles and desserts to the commoners. The missionaries distributed wine to the nobles and desserts to the commoners in the hope of spreading Christianity. Merchants also made large quantities of pastries and gave them to the people in the streets. At that time, a kind of pastry made of sugar, eggs and flour was very popular, and the Japanese asked about the dessert from the Kingdom of Castella. As a result, the Japanese mistakenly passed down the name Castella as the name of the dessert, and this is the origin of Castella.