Bled cake

After a 10km loop around the lake and castle in the pouring rain this morning, we had to try some Bled cake. In 1953, the original Bled Cream Cake was developed by the in-house pastry chef at the Kavarna Park Hotel. The hotel owner decided to launch a marketing campaign based around it, and the cake quickly became not only the symbol of the hotel’s cafe, but the symbol of Bled and one of the iconic desserts of Middle Europe. An estimated 15 million slices have been sold since 1953. Each slice is exactly 7 x 7 x 7 cm square, featuring 2/3 vanilla cream and 1/3 normal cream, with phyllo dough on top and beneath.