Paul Gauweiler stands over his baumkuchen oven and ladles scoopfuls of cake batter over a 3-foot-long spindle rotating in front of a wall of flames. He takes a seat on a lidded bucket, scooting across ...
Deep in the bowels of a building in the ByWard Market, a special kind of cake is being made that has a 400-year-old history and is likely unique in Canada. Baumkuchen translates from German as “tree ...