… especially Xavier Loibner, a young scullion at the Hotel Imperial. During the night of 28th April 1873 he lies awake for a long time, preoccupied with a single idea:
to bake the perfect cake
for Emperor Franz Joseph I, who is due to open the luxurious Hotel Imperial the next day.
He envisions creating a cake that will be so unique that no other confectioner far and wide will ever be able to copy it.
… the first square cake, which stands out from all the others due to its striking shape.
The first square cake.
The next day the emperor is so delighted with precisely this cake that this is the only creation he will taste. This event marks the birth of the superb.
Success takes its course and is still unbroken to this day
… and it has been a secret ever since.
