Confectioner Zault Karl has created a special cake he calls “heaven’s bite” using dried fruits described in the Bible and hopes Pope Francis will taste his creation during his visit to Hungary this Sunday.
Pope Francis is due to arrive in a predominantly Roman Catholic Hungary on Sunday to celebrate a mass in Budapest’s historic Heroes Square. He will then leave for Slovakia the same day for a journey that ends in an open-air mass at the Sastin shrine in western Slovakia on 15 September.
Karl, who runs his own cake shop in the small town of Dunahraszti, south of Budapest, won a national competition for the cake, which he served for the first time this week at a Eucharistic Congress in Budapest.
“I made a sugar syrup with cinnamon and honey, and I put dried fruits in it,” he said.
“We experimented with proportions of dried fruits so that when someone ate a cake, he felt a different taste every 5-10 seconds.”
Under competition conditions the cake must be simple, last a long time without freezing and be made using biblical ingredients such as figs, dates, apricots, plums and honey.
Karl’s cake, which has a pastry similar to the Hungarian specialty “begli”, is a roll usually filled with poppy seeds or walnuts and traditionally made for Christmas, with dried figs, plums, dates and apricots as well as candied Filled with cherries, candied orange rind, and toasted almonds.
“I really hope the Pope will taste our pastries,” said Carl.
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