Author: sweet surrender

After lunch, we went to The German Cake Shop to get beesting aka Bienenstich. I’m sure The German Cake Shop is not stranger to most South Australians. If I’m not mistaken, this is the only shop that sells beesting cake in Hahndorf. Can’t find it in other place too but heard there’s one around South Road selling this cake too. It’s not a common dessert. Most people I know will ask whoever going to Hahndorf to help them buy this delicious cake. I think I should do so too next time.

It’s a must to have it when you’re in Hahndorf but I didn’t have it last year hahah… I didn’t know about this until that day.

Left: Can you spot beesting? I heard other desserts there are also very tasty.

Right: The big one costs AUD10 an small one is AUD5. It’s YUMMY! Two thumbs up from me. Gosh! Heavenly! I want to have it again. It’s not overly sweet. Bienenstich or ‘Bee sting cake’ is a German dessert made of a sweet yeast dough with a baked-on caramelized almonds on top and filled with vanilla custard, Buttercream or cream. I tried looking for the recipe, found it but seemed quite complicated. Hopefully I can try to make it one day.

After we bought it, we brought it over to another place to have it with beer. The beesting which looked messy in this picture was the aftermath of us cutting it to share ;p

*DROOL*

Oh no! I’m craving for it now. What should I do? When will I be able to have it again? On the other note, I wish I’ll get to have beesting as my birthday cake this year.

The main place we wanted to go in Hahndorf was The Hahndorf Inn.

On the way there… (ignore the wrong label of the photo ;p)

Almost there… We’re there! It was already 3pm and most of us didn’t eat any lunch including me hahaha… Only had a cup of oat as my very late breakfast at almost 12pm.

Did not order A Taste of Germany Platter (AUD59.90) which people would usually order. Instead we went for other dishes which were quite enough for 7 of us. You only see two here, we ordered another plate of sausages but I forgot to take photo of it. It looked similar to the one on the right.

Left: Stuttgart Platter (Serves 2) $66.00 includes 400gm rump steak, 500gm pork ribs, 6 crispy chicken wings, served with Rhine potato, sauerkraut and homemade bbq sauce. In fact, it can feed more than 4 people hahaha… Don’t be fooled by the “Serves 2”. Portion is huge here if you are ordering anything that stated “Serves 2” in the menu.

Right: Trio of Wursts $29.90 includes Bockwurst, Bratwurst and Weisswurst with traditional German potato salad, sauerkraut, and a fresh German pretzel.

We also ordred another dish called the Duo of Kranskys $23.90. There’s cheese Kransky and Plain Kransky, served with Rhine potato, sauerkraut and a fresh German pretzel.

All were absolutely divine! The chicken wings, rump steak, and pork ribs were soooo goood!

Left: Trio of Wursts and I.
Right: It’s already so late yet the the lunch crowd was still there. This place is always packed with people at any time of the day. You will have to wait or reserve in advance.

After Melba’s Chocolate Factory, we went to the other shop for cheese tasting.

I didn’t get to taste any cheese, there’s only one person handling both the sales and tasting.

We just looked around and left.

Then, we headed back to the road leading to Hahndorf.


We stopped by The Olde Apple Shed at Onkaparinga Valley Road, Balhannah to check out the apple pie but to our disappointment, it’s not piping hot apple pie, not what we wanted. There’s a variety of apples for purchase too.

After checking it out, we left empty handed. Time to head over to our destination to meet the other group.