With a forkful of the apple cake or apfelkuchen, as Berliners would have it, one is a time traveller back in the city's heady days of the late 1920s.

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There was a quark cheesecake, a rustic apple cake as well as butter cookies sandwiched together with melted chocolate into a loaf-like thing mystifyingly named Kalter Hund (or "cold dog").

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Shimla bakers make delicious fresh apple cake.

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The secrets of Viennese signature apple strudel and chocolate cake Sacher are well-known among Lviv pastry chefs but syrnyk, a moist pie made from fresh cottage cheese, is a local specialty that many guests to the city take back home.

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"While Apple wants to keep its cake, shareholders get to eat it too, " he said.

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If sipping on imported beers is more to your taste, Der Lindenbaum offers 30 different German beers to enjoy before nibbling the homemade apple strudel and Black Forest cake.

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Your comment of copying by Apple is truly the icing on the cake.

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