While the combined gateau itself is now old, it's unlikely to go out of fashion any time soon. A combination of cherries, cream and schnapps Image: picture-alliance/dpa/P. The idea of serving preserved cherries with cream and sometimes with a shot of schnapps has been around in the Black Forest for a while. Thus, the Swabian town of Tübingen equally claims to have invented the classic gateau - however, only in 1930 and therefore 15 years after its "birthday" in Bad Godesberg. However, the locals are not too bothered by the Swabian pastry chef who reportedly created the Black Forest specialty in the Rhineland. One of Keller's trainees took the original recipe which is now kept at a pastry shop in Triberg in the Black Forest region. From there, it travelled around the world. Then Keller moved to Radolfzell on Lake Constance and opened his own cafe, where the gateau once again became a popular favourite. It still exists, although it's now called Cafe Agner. Hence the cafe is considered the birthplace of the Black Forest gateau. Keller, who had been born in the Swabian Riedlingen on the river Danube, was working at the Cafe Ahrend in Bad Godesberg near Bonn at the time, where he first served the dessert in 1915. According to the official story, it was created by baker Josef Keller (1887-1981), who first decided to combine cream, cherries and schnapps in a cake. Only Vienna's Sacher cake enjoys similar stardom. It's known in Australia, Asia and South Africa. Its name is inseparable from the Black Forest region. The high-calorie dessert is among the most ordered sweets in cafes, restaurants and mountain huts. Gateau specialist Freddy Bock Image: picture-alliance/dpa/P. "And it is the most famous and most popular gateau in Germany," he adds. "Black Forest gateau is our region's most famous export," says Christopher Krull, CEO of the Black Forest Tourism Association in Freiburg. A shot of kirsch schnapps creates the dessert's special flavor. He doesn't need a recipe it's all in his head.
"Creating Black Forest gateau is my daily business," says Freddy Boch, who owns the Hotel Engel in Todtnauberg near Freiburg, in the southern Black Forest region.
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