Today's Case:
Swiss Wedding Cake
Re: Swiss Wedding Cake
From: Rachael
To: Phaedrus
Date: 1/7/2025, 2:11 PM
On 1/7/2025 8:29 AM, Rachael wrote:
Hi! My niece and I have been trying for the past few years to make a cake like
Swiss Bakery in New Orleans. It is a white cake (wedding cake), with almond
taste but the crumb of the cake is super fine yet fluffy and light. Their icing is
“crispy” on the edges. We have never found nor made anything remotely like
their cakes. I’m hoping you can locate something for us. Thank you so much!
Rachael
Hello Rachael,
Do you mean "The Swiss Bakery" on St Charles? It seems to have been wiped out by Hurricane Katrina.
The owner, Larry Moecklin, appears to have reopened as "Swiss Confectionery" at 3700 Orleans Ave.:
Swiss Confectionery
The description of the cake and the icing that you give is the kind of description that is not useful at all in finding a recipe. There are photos of the Wedding cakes that Swiss Confectionery makes here: Swiss Confectionery Cake Photos
Those photos are no help, however, because you can't make, or locate a recipe for, a cake from a photo or from a description of how it tastes. If it is on the Internet at all, it would have to have "The Swiss Bakery" or "Swiss Confectionery" or Larry Moecklin as part of the recipe in order to find it. I did not find any recipe that gave any connection to any of those names. If the kind of cake that it is has a specific name, then we might be able to locate a recipe for it by that name, but what is that name?
All I can do is post this. It's definitely a long shot, but someone who knows the cake and who has a recipe for that kind of cake might read this and respond to me. It's worth a try.
Phaed
So there really isn’t a name for the cake. If anything I’d say a wedding cake as it has
an almond flavor. Buttercream icing and usually we buy one with strawberry filling.
Unfortunately I don’t have anything else but you definitely have the right bakery!
Swiss Confectionery in New Orleans!
Thank you,
Rachael
