Frisch aus der Backstube

Bakery: Frisch aus der Backstube/Traditional German Baking
Address: Spotted at the Duncan Farmers' Market, Duncan BC 
Website: facebook
Style: German 
Price: $$

After some detective work, I located more information about this German food truck that sells mostly baked goods with the addition of a few hot food items (sausages and schnitzels). Based in Cowichan Bay and regularly doing the farmers' market circuit (their Facebook page, above, is fairly current and lets you know where they're heading next), they sell authentic German baked goods (with a few exceptions) and breads... which might just be one of the most exciting food trucks out there. It certainly was the highlight of the Duncan Farmers' Market, despite the overpowering scent of bratwurst and cabbage in the area. It also happens to be one of the most popular with a great many items already sold out: small quark doughnuts were gone. Cherry cake was gone. I believe even the pretzels were gone!

It being cherry season at the time, I was most interested in the cherry cake (actually, the quark doughnuts really would have been my first pick, but alas!), but was told that it was sold out and the only other cherry baked good they had was a sort of lactose-free coffee cake, which didn't look as appealing as the apple strudel next to it, so the apple strudel ($3.50) it was.

This was a generous piece of strudel with a firmer shell that complimented the big chunks of cinnamon baked apples and raisins inside. Unlike most German-style strudels, the dough wasn't the flaky puff pastry you come to expect, but a more doughier version, so much so that overall it tasted more like an apple cake than a strudel. Still tasty, not as soggy as the aforementioned version can get on a hot summer day. Very good.

Rating: ***