Or Shpitz, Cake Artist from Tel Aviv Bograshove Street |
I heard from one of my Jewish friends that Israel, especially Tel Viv is famous for
its delicious falafel, hummus, and sabich, but now specialty cakes could
become one of the country’s hottest food items. Israeli
baking icon Or Shpitz, owner of popular
bakeries in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, where her super tasty treats and love for everything
pink close to drawing in cake-lovers!
Or Shpitz Bakery appears like no place else in Tel Aviv –
even you first-time tourist in Israel. you'll be able to easily spot the bakery from afar,
with its pinkish color façade, pink walls, pink chairs, a pink bicycle, and flowers completely shrouding its entrance doors and windows.
The bakery looks exactly like what it is: the right place for a party with a
bit girl – or the young despite appearance – with the sweetest
treats you'll imagine.
At the entrance of the bakery, there are pink wallflowers and a pink sofa. once you sit
down, there’s a pink wall filled with gilded mixers at the
opposite side of the space. If you’re lucky enough to induce a
spot for the bakery’s Instagram-star owner, she’ll be wearing pink, as well.
Twenty-three-year-old Shpitz, started baking when she was in her school. She loved preparing fancy
birthday cakes for people in her neighborhood in Holon, keeping the business
going while she served within the Israeli Defense Forces IDF, and advertising her cakes on
her popular Instagram account. When she was 20 –and still a soldier – she was
on the truth television show Bake Off. When she finished her
army service, she moved to an urban center, where she kept baking custom
birthday cakes and commenced to show baking classes.
The sit-down bakery, where customers also can order coffee, gives
Shpitz the prospect to try to several what she did on Bake
Off: diversify beyond birthday cakes to a broad range of pastries and
desserts, with plenty of chocolate and lots of her signature
pink.
Shpitz said she wants her desserts to be of international caliber and
elegance, and she has traveled the globe for
inspiration. As such, she in her quest for perfection once served two categories of desserts at her bakery.
There are the Paris-inspired desserts, which she calls “patisserie fancy
flavors,” and therefore the more down-to-Earth American ones.
I tried a number of each kind. On the American side, there have
been some soft chocolate chip cookies, with chocolate and chocolate filling that
may impress any cookie fan. a number of the opposite American
desserts include donuts with pink chocolate and strawberry cream, blondies
with chocolate and Oreos, chocolate cupcakes with buttercream, and
more.