The pastries are pretty sweet, and pretty darn good! When I travelled across southern Germany I was amazed by the amount of bakeries there were in the towns. And sandwich bars. Oh and those giant pretzels with melted cheese...mmmmm
Oh yes, there is some fine stuff *grin*
And we have a lot of different kinds of bread, so I guess there is business for a few bakeries in every town.
In my hometown f.ex. there is one very old bakery, they have a specialty called Wiener Kranz.
It's a cake, that is (oh my, loss for words) - you kind of wind the dough together so it becomes a round wheel and it is filled with nut and fudge. (Passionfruit will know the word 'Wickelkranz' I guess).
http://www.baeckerhaus-ecker.de/produkte/produkt_wienerkranz.htmlBad picture, but I just read on the homepage they even export it to the US *grin*.