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Café Europe, Café d'Europe or also Café Europa was a cultural initiative of the Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n presidency of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
, held on Europe Day
Europe Day

In Europe, Europe Day is an annual celebration of peace and unity in Europe. There are two separate Europe Days, taking place on the 5 May and the 9 May, established by the Council of Europe and the European Union respectively....
 (9 May 2006) in 27 café
Café

A caf? or coffee shop is an informal restaurant offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches. This differs from a coffee house, which is a limited-menu establishment which focuses on coffee sales....
s of the capitals of the then 25 EU member states and the two countries which would join the Union in 2007.








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Café Europe, Café d'Europe or also Café Europa was a cultural initiative of the Austria
Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west....
n presidency of the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
, held on Europe Day
Europe Day

In Europe, Europe Day is an annual celebration of peace and unity in Europe. There are two separate Europe Days, taking place on the 5 May and the 9 May, established by the Council of Europe and the European Union respectively....
 (9 May 2006) in 27 café
Café

A caf? or coffee shop is an informal restaurant offering a range of hot meals and made-to-order sandwiches. This differs from a coffee house, which is a limited-menu establishment which focuses on coffee sales....
s of the capitals of the then 25 EU member states and the two countries which would join the Union in 2007.

Sweet Europe


The initiative also included a presentation, called Sweet Europe, of typical sweets and cakes of every member state.
Gugelhupf
Gugelhupf

A Gugelhupf or Kugelhupf is a southern Germany, Austrian, Switzerland and Alsatian language term for a type of cake. As with the Jewish dish kugel, the name "Gugelhupf" is related to the Middle High German word Kugel meaning "ball" or "globe"....
Waffles
Sweet rice with milk
Rice pudding

Rice pudding is a dish made from rice mixed with water or milk and sometimes other ingredients. Different variants are used for either desserts or dinners....
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Baclava (µpa??aß??)
Kolác
Danish pastry
Danish pastry

Danish pastry, or simply Danish, is a sweet pastry which has become a speciality of Denmark and the neighbouring Scandinavian countries and is popular throughout the industrialized world, although the form it takes can differ significantly from country to country....
 (Wienerbrød)
Kaerahelbeküpsised
Laskiaispulla
Madeleines
Streuselkuchen
Streuselkuchen

Streuselkuchen is a Germany speciality. Traditionally it is made of a yeast dough covered with crumbs. The main ingredients for the crumbs are flour, sugar and butter....
Vasilopita
Vasilopita

Vasilopita is a traditional New Year's Day bread or cake in Greece and many other areas in eastern Europe and the Balkans which contains a hidden coin or trinket which gives good luck to the receiver....
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Dobos Torta
Dobos Cake

Dobos Cake is a famous Hungary cake, invented by and named after a well-known Hungarian confectioner, J?zsef C. Dobos in 1884. It is a five-layer sponge cake, layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with thin caramel slices....
Scones
Tiramisù
Tiramisu

Tiramisu is one of the most popular Italian cuisine cakes. It is made of savoiardi dipped in espresso or strong coffee and layered with a whipped mixture of egg yolks, mascarpone, and sugar, and topped with cocoa....
Rupjmaizes kartojums
Šakotis
Šakotis

?akotis is a popular Lithuanian cuisine traditional cake, a version of the German cuisine Baumkuchen, and known as "sekacz" in Poland. It has been known in Lithuania since the era of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ...
Apfeltorte
Apple pie

An apple pie is a fruit pie in which the principal filling ingredient is apples . It is sometimes served with whipped cream on top of it. Pastry is generally used top-and-bottom, making a double-crust pie, the upper crust of which may be a disk shaped crust or a pastry lattice woven of strips; exceptions are deep-dish apple pie with a to...
Imqaret
Maltese cuisine

Malta cuisine is typically Mediterranean cuisine, based on fresh seasonal locally available produce and seafood, with some influence from Italian cuisine, particularly Sicilian cuisine....
Tompouce
Mazurek kajmakowy
Pastel de nata
Pastel de nata

Pastel de Nata or Pastel de Bel?m is a small custard tart found throughout Portugal's pastry shops or caf?s. It is believed that it was created before the 18th century by Catholic Monks at the Jer?nimos Monastery of Bel?m, Lisbon, in Lisbon ....
Cozonac
Cozonac

Cozonac is a traditional Bulgarian and Romanian sweet bread. It is usually prepared for Easter in Bulgaria and mostly for every major holiday in Romania....
Walnut strudel
Strudel

A strudel is a type of sweet layered pastry with a filling inside, that became well known and gained popularity in the 18th century through the Habsburg Empire....
 (orechovy zavin)
Prekmurska gibanica
Prekmurska gibanica

Prekmurje gibanica is a layered cake, originating in the region of Prekmurje, Slovenia. It contains poppy seeds, walnuts, apples, raisins, and cottage cheese fillings....
Tarta de Santiago
Tarta de Santiago

Torta de Santiago is a famous type of almond pie from Galicia , literally meaning cake of St. James. The Galician name for cake is Torta whilst it is often referred to Tarta, which is the Spanish word....
Kanelbulle
Cinnamon roll

A cinnamon roll and cinnamon swirls) is a sweet pastry found commonly in North America and Northern Europe. Comparable to the cinnamon roll is the Honey Bun, which would be part of the donut family....
Shortbread
Shortbread

Shortbread is a type of biscuit which is traditionally made from one part sugar, two parts butter, and three parts oatmeal . Shortbread is so named because of its crumbly Texture ....


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