At a cake workshop backstage with the Stern

Denise Stern contacted me about some tours for her family trip to Barcelona. I was quite booked up so I got my colleague Sandra to show them around, but I was able to be with them for their "special tour". They were looking for something different, and after discussing our possibilities, they decided on a tour that would include visiting some unique stores in town, then going to the backstage of a famous local cake maker, and then visiting the workshop of the local artist Alicia Cayuela.

The tour was fun, but the very best part was visting Escribà, the cake store.
When we got there, we first visited the public shop and looked at the mouth-watering cakes and pastries. Then we were invited to have a "berenar", the local afternoon snack. We chose some delicious bakeries, chocolates and plus soda and coffee. Yummy!


Then Xavi, one of the main responsibles of the cake store recieved us. He took us upstairs to their private workshop, all decorated in a gingerbread-housy way, and started introducing us to their products, techniques and projects. We got to meet a Brazilian lady who is now in charge of their American-Style cake decoration, then we were taken to their chocolate area to see (and taste!) some of their newest creations. There we crossed Christian Escribà, one of the 3 children of the Escribà family, who is the soul of the cake revolution undertaken by this 4th-generation family owned-bussiness. He promissed he'd join us later, when after an appointment he had with a photographer.

And he did, indeed! We were back with Xavi to the showroom, and he was showing us the most amazing videos on cakes (or should I say... sweet performances?), and he came and spent the rest of our visit with us, commenting on the videos, sharing his experience and even asking Xavi to show us more. We couldn't believe behind a cake could be such a world of creativity!

And because I'm without words to express what we lived there, here is a video of their "Cake of the Future":