What do Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and the Hasburg family have in common?
They all love the desserts from Konditorei Zauner, an excellent patisserie awarded with Austrian coat of arms for their traditional Austrian desserts. According to legend, Franz Lehar even paid the desserts with his composed songs!
Being a dessert geek, I travel the world to find the best dessert in town, and seek to replicate it at home. What I had at Zauner was beyond imagination!
This little fellow that I had is a dark chocolate coated layer cake with a dash of pistachios on top.
It was definitely on the sweet end, but worth every little bit as the plum jam in the middle melts into your mouth.
After a festive coffee break, don't forget to take a walk around Bad Ischl.
There's much love and hate of Bad Ischl. For love, this is the place where Emperor Franz Joseph propose to the beautiful 16 year old Bavarian princess (Empress Elizabeth, also known as "Sisi").
This is also the same place where Emperor's mistress Katharina Schratt lived right next door to the palace, where the Emperor could enjoy countless walk of happiness of Katharina. For Hate, Bad Ischl is also the place where the emperor signed the declaration of war on Serbia, July 28th, 1914, which triggered the disastrous spiral of WWI.
Despite it's dramatic history, Bad Ischl was a charming summer escape for the Hasburg family, but many others follow suit. Writers, musicians floated in and out of Bad Ischl. Johanns Strauss had a summer house here, and Franz Lehar spent a lot of time getting inspirations for his operetta as well.
The morning view
The sunset view
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