It’s a windy winter morning in Dresden, Germany, and crowds of people have gathered in front of the city’s Kulturpalast concert hall. Snowy-white wisps can be seen to be blowing onto the crowd, but it is not snowing — what’s dusting the crowd is powdered sugar coming from a gigantic cake which weighed 8,700 pounds (around 4 tons). The cake sits upon a horse-drawn wagon.
This is Stollenfest, a supersized celebration of Dresden’s signature holiday treat, Christstollen.
Rich, buttery, and studded with rum-soaked raisins and candied citrus peel, the city’s version of stollen holds such a hallowed position in Dresden that thousands of fans flock to the city to watch a parade in its honor, held this year on December 7.
“The giant stollen is the beginning of Christmastime for Dresden,” says Marcel Hennig, a third-generation master baker who helped make the large cake this year. “It’s a must-do for Dresden bakers.”
Know more about the Stollenfest, and the story that it tells, over at Atlas Obscura.
(Image Credit: Schutzverband Dresdner Stollen E. V. / M. Schmidt)
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