Spit cake translates as "tree cake". Baumstriezel is made of a batter made with yeast, and has a caramel crust while the Baumkuchen is not baked with yeast but with baking powder, and has no crust of caramelized sugar. Baumkuchen has as its ingredients eggs, marzipan, sugar, butter and flour. Baumkuchen is served plain or with white sugar icing or covered with chocolate. This type of cake is known in Austria as Prügelkrapfen and in Luxembourg called Baamkuch, traditionally served on special occasions, such as weddings. The Austrian Prügelkrapfen or Prügeltorte is a variety of spit cake with a liquid base dough
Sachertorte was designed to impress the Emperor Francis Joseph I and the square shaped chocolate torte is still produced today. Other Viennese classic cakes include a Sacher Torte made by Demel confectionery, which up until the early 1960s had fought a legal battle over the name rights of the cake. The "Esterházy torte" can trace its legacy back to the days of the noble Hungarian family of the same name and is still produced in many of Vienna's coffee houses. The issue of the "torte wars" and the competition to create a memorable cake is significant, considering how coffee houses and