Layered cakes is probably one of the two most common type of cake for birthdays, and strawberries is the default fruit or berry in the summer time, so a layered cake like [this](https://www.valdemarsro.dk/wp-content/2013/06/jordbaerlagkage.jpg) is not uncommon if made at home, while a pie like [this](https://www.nytorvs-konditori.dk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/jordbaertaerte.jpg) is found in every bakery in the summer months.
[Strawberry cakes](https://www.valio.fi/reseptit/mansikkakakku/) traditionally belong to the summer celebrations. They're most likely completely different cakes than in your examples though, because I wouldn't descripe them with "softer and has a marshmallow like texture"
They exist in Cafès and bakeries and can be [bought frozen](https://www.coppenrath-wiese.de/pics/low2_new/4008577004229001Vuuv042200002_low2.webp)
But a homemade one is usually the standard [Dr. Oetker version](https://www.oetker.at/rezepte/r/klassische-erdbeertorte) and has been for [a while](https://asset.museum-digital.org//media/1200/san/images/201504/27111732433.jpg)
Very common. [This](https://meny.no/oppskrifter/Kaker/Kremkaker/blotkake-med-med-vaniljekrem/) is the recipe for a "standard" version, but there are many regional versions as well. It's the stereotypical cake for celebrations - birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, etc. The only cake that's even close in popularity is chocolate cake.
edit: probably not the exact same cake, as the Finnish guy says. There's no meringue in the cakes I'm used to, but that could be one of the regional versions I mentioned.
Very common! What is different from the British, American and other recipes, it that the sponge is made of whipped whole eggs and sugar, baking powder and flour (wheat or combined with potato starch). There's no milk, no fat nor any water added.
It requires measurements that work well with metric system, but not as good in the imperial systems, without weighing the ingredients or using weird numbers for the cups (5/13 cup...)
The worst cake every to exist. Nothing is worse than being invited to coffee and cakes, and all the cakes that are served are either bløtkake og marsipankake
Yes, a classic in Sweden where we call it gräddtårta. At midsummer eve celebration the most popular dessert is jordgubbstårta, a gräddtårta with strawberry filling (sliced berries or jam) and decorated with even more strawberries.
Frosting, icing and fondant used to be less common on layered cakes (tårta). Traditional cakes are often variations on gräddtårta or marzipan covered like prinsesstårta (prinsess cake). A variation of gräddtårta can be made with meringue instead of sponge cake layers.
We eat a lot of victoria sponge cake, which is usually two layers and you can stick it together with jam, but in summer it's also common to use fresh fruit and whipped cream - usually strawberries and/or raspberries
Thanks, here in New Zealand most bakeries’ cakes are normally coated with frosting looking like this: https://kitchenaid.co.nz/blogs/kitchenthusiast/layered-celebration-cake
I had talked to an artisan-kind of baker here this morning who heads her business. It turns out she could make a cream and fresh fruit cake as a custom order but it’s not on the regular menu. Hers would look like this: https://www.errenskitchen.com/patriotic-vanilla-cream-sponge-cake/
Or https://thetoughcookie.com/2016/07/12/forest-fruit-cake-whipped-cream-frosting/
I don't know why, but I associate layered cakes with weddings and such, and these types of cakes tend to be very dry. The most common type of pie sold in bakeries in the area is the [Limburgse Vlaai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaai).
Common enough, for (kids) birthdays. Maybe not the most popular type (I would bet that's appeltaart, kersenvlaai and kwarktaart) but I think you can get them from cake bakeries pretty much everywhere.
It is called "slagroomtaart" (whipped cream cake) in Dutch, and it is pretty much the standard. [Picture of a typical Dutch slagroomtaart with some fruits and chocloate decoration, layers and caramelized nut pieces on the sides](https://doortjeskeuken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DSC_0378.jpg)
I think I've eaten maybe ten slagroomtaarten in my life and a large host more of appeltaart, vlaai and kwarktaart. I only ever see slagroomtaarten at birthday parties, while I see the other ones at nearly all cafés, when I go to or invite people for a regular coffee/tea, and things like company meetings. I've eaten probably hundreds of those. Anecdotal, of course, but it's not like you're giving me statistics.
Edit: I think chocoladetaart is also more popular than slagroomtaart.
I'm taking a leap and guessing you were born around 2000 or later.
Slagroomtaart (met jam) is perhaps _the_ Dutch taart, and HEMA still sells hundreds of them every day. Growing up in the nineties, every kid seemed to have a HEMA slagroomtaart on their birthday. Until 15 years ago, "koffie met gebak" was almost always served with slagroomtaart, appeltaart was considered "sjiek". Vlaai is very regional; cheesecake and all the other cakes you mentioned only became popular thanks to Starbucks et al. when it became more common to go out for coffee in the past 10 years or so.
I didn't mention cheesecake at al, kwarktaart is way different from American cheesecake and a very European product (good luck getting kwark at all in the US). I was born in the 90s, so you're not too far off in that I'm young-ish. I do know the HEMA slagroomtaart, but as I said before, I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere other than kids birthday parties (perhaps in line with what you're saying, as that would have been the nineties/early 2000s and maybe it's gotten less popular?). Vlaai is from Limburg, sure, but I am a randstedeling and still I've had more vlaai than slagroomtaart. I suspect we may just have had very different experiences in life by mere chance, and I suspect that you're perhaps quite a bit older than me? I'm very curious about actual current taart statistics now though, I might look them up later.
Haha, well, I'm almost 40. In any case, I think we can agree that slagroomtaart is very much out of fashion. But if we go back to the post's question, we do have a very common, Dutch version of a "layered cake with whipped cream and fruit on top," and you can still get it quite easily at supermarkets and bakeries.
Yes, they are, in all sorts of mutations, many of them involving meringue. Probably the best loved is one that's a layer of sponge cake and a layer of meringue sandwiched with whipped cream, with chocolate/whipped-cream icing on top and crowned with canned pears, but a simple one- or two-layer sponge with whipped cream and fresh strawberries and/or blueberries is not uncommon. The sponge can be replaced or supplemented with meringue for a fancier version.
You generally will not find them in bakeries, but some cafés serve them and people make them for at-home celebrations.
Quite common especially for birthdays. For mine I always buy a cream cake with fruit because in June there's a lot of green seasonal fruit that I love.
Whipped cream and fresh fruit are pretty common in cakes, a strawberry and whipped cream cake would look more like [this](https://c8.alamy.com/compes/cyg5rr/dulce-crema-pastelera-bizcocho-tartas-para-ventanilla-de-venta-tradicional-panaderia-pasteleria-madrid-espana-cyg5rr.jpg) in a traditional bakery, [fresh fruit in cakes](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMU4ihSWk7gUvQFGDRDoer9wWpjTps5z-YS-Jwkb22tep5Ch3Ixrq7wXKz2WSwo1qwrwNzEAlYKrG_x9EegnYU_Seo4i_RlY2UhOLvnMrDggEMSn-R74w8yGwUVI5GHjZdqTAiIPp-mQM/s1600/tarta+de+frutas.jpg) a lot of time comes with that sort of glaze that makes it shiny. Strawberry cheese cakes are also common, they have a layer of jelly [that may have fresh fruit](https://okdiario.com/img/2019/12/31/tarta-de-queso-y-fresas-vegana.jpg).
It's called tort here and is very popular, not only with strawberries but all kind of things. Most people differentiate between tort and cake. Generally tort is most often bought or baked for celebrations like birthdays, weddings or other big special occasions, if anyone is walking around with one in box they will be asked what's the occasion. Other cakes are not so strongly associated with this and also bought for casual meeting or as a snack.
They are very common for celebrations such as birthdays. They aren't always decorated with fruit or berries, though. Besides the whipped cream, the different layers can have a flavoured cream in them to offer different tastes. The most common "neutral" ones are probably banana flavour and a sweet one close to vanilla
Layered cakes is probably one of the two most common type of cake for birthdays, and strawberries is the default fruit or berry in the summer time, so a layered cake like [this](https://www.valdemarsro.dk/wp-content/2013/06/jordbaerlagkage.jpg) is not uncommon if made at home, while a pie like [this](https://www.nytorvs-konditori.dk/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/jordbaertaerte.jpg) is found in every bakery in the summer months.
[Strawberry cakes](https://www.valio.fi/reseptit/mansikkakakku/) traditionally belong to the summer celebrations. They're most likely completely different cakes than in your examples though, because I wouldn't descripe them with "softer and has a marshmallow like texture"
They exist in Cafès and bakeries and can be [bought frozen](https://www.coppenrath-wiese.de/pics/low2_new/4008577004229001Vuuv042200002_low2.webp) But a homemade one is usually the standard [Dr. Oetker version](https://www.oetker.at/rezepte/r/klassische-erdbeertorte) and has been for [a while](https://asset.museum-digital.org//media/1200/san/images/201504/27111732433.jpg)
Very common. [This](https://meny.no/oppskrifter/Kaker/Kremkaker/blotkake-med-med-vaniljekrem/) is the recipe for a "standard" version, but there are many regional versions as well. It's the stereotypical cake for celebrations - birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, graduations, etc. The only cake that's even close in popularity is chocolate cake. edit: probably not the exact same cake, as the Finnish guy says. There's no meringue in the cakes I'm used to, but that could be one of the regional versions I mentioned.
Very common! What is different from the British, American and other recipes, it that the sponge is made of whipped whole eggs and sugar, baking powder and flour (wheat or combined with potato starch). There's no milk, no fat nor any water added. It requires measurements that work well with metric system, but not as good in the imperial systems, without weighing the ingredients or using weird numbers for the cups (5/13 cup...)
The worst cake every to exist. Nothing is worse than being invited to coffee and cakes, and all the cakes that are served are either bløtkake og marsipankake
Yes, a classic in Sweden where we call it gräddtårta. At midsummer eve celebration the most popular dessert is jordgubbstårta, a gräddtårta with strawberry filling (sliced berries or jam) and decorated with even more strawberries. Frosting, icing and fondant used to be less common on layered cakes (tårta). Traditional cakes are often variations on gräddtårta or marzipan covered like prinsesstårta (prinsess cake). A variation of gräddtårta can be made with meringue instead of sponge cake layers.
We eat a lot of victoria sponge cake, which is usually two layers and you can stick it together with jam, but in summer it's also common to use fresh fruit and whipped cream - usually strawberries and/or raspberries
Thanks, here in New Zealand most bakeries’ cakes are normally coated with frosting looking like this: https://kitchenaid.co.nz/blogs/kitchenthusiast/layered-celebration-cake I had talked to an artisan-kind of baker here this morning who heads her business. It turns out she could make a cream and fresh fruit cake as a custom order but it’s not on the regular menu. Hers would look like this: https://www.errenskitchen.com/patriotic-vanilla-cream-sponge-cake/ Or https://thetoughcookie.com/2016/07/12/forest-fruit-cake-whipped-cream-frosting/
I don't know why, but I associate layered cakes with weddings and such, and these types of cakes tend to be very dry. The most common type of pie sold in bakeries in the area is the [Limburgse Vlaai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlaai).
Common enough, for (kids) birthdays. Maybe not the most popular type (I would bet that's appeltaart, kersenvlaai and kwarktaart) but I think you can get them from cake bakeries pretty much everywhere.
It is called "slagroomtaart" (whipped cream cake) in Dutch, and it is pretty much the standard. [Picture of a typical Dutch slagroomtaart with some fruits and chocloate decoration, layers and caramelized nut pieces on the sides](https://doortjeskeuken.nl/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/DSC_0378.jpg)
I think I've eaten maybe ten slagroomtaarten in my life and a large host more of appeltaart, vlaai and kwarktaart. I only ever see slagroomtaarten at birthday parties, while I see the other ones at nearly all cafés, when I go to or invite people for a regular coffee/tea, and things like company meetings. I've eaten probably hundreds of those. Anecdotal, of course, but it's not like you're giving me statistics. Edit: I think chocoladetaart is also more popular than slagroomtaart.
I'm taking a leap and guessing you were born around 2000 or later. Slagroomtaart (met jam) is perhaps _the_ Dutch taart, and HEMA still sells hundreds of them every day. Growing up in the nineties, every kid seemed to have a HEMA slagroomtaart on their birthday. Until 15 years ago, "koffie met gebak" was almost always served with slagroomtaart, appeltaart was considered "sjiek". Vlaai is very regional; cheesecake and all the other cakes you mentioned only became popular thanks to Starbucks et al. when it became more common to go out for coffee in the past 10 years or so.
I didn't mention cheesecake at al, kwarktaart is way different from American cheesecake and a very European product (good luck getting kwark at all in the US). I was born in the 90s, so you're not too far off in that I'm young-ish. I do know the HEMA slagroomtaart, but as I said before, I don't think I've ever seen it anywhere other than kids birthday parties (perhaps in line with what you're saying, as that would have been the nineties/early 2000s and maybe it's gotten less popular?). Vlaai is from Limburg, sure, but I am a randstedeling and still I've had more vlaai than slagroomtaart. I suspect we may just have had very different experiences in life by mere chance, and I suspect that you're perhaps quite a bit older than me? I'm very curious about actual current taart statistics now though, I might look them up later.
Haha, well, I'm almost 40. In any case, I think we can agree that slagroomtaart is very much out of fashion. But if we go back to the post's question, we do have a very common, Dutch version of a "layered cake with whipped cream and fruit on top," and you can still get it quite easily at supermarkets and bakeries.
On that we can definitely agree!
You can find them in pastry shops, sold by the slice usually, but I don't think anyone would make one at home outside a birthday party.
Yes, they are, in all sorts of mutations, many of them involving meringue. Probably the best loved is one that's a layer of sponge cake and a layer of meringue sandwiched with whipped cream, with chocolate/whipped-cream icing on top and crowned with canned pears, but a simple one- or two-layer sponge with whipped cream and fresh strawberries and/or blueberries is not uncommon. The sponge can be replaced or supplemented with meringue for a fancier version. You generally will not find them in bakeries, but some cafés serve them and people make them for at-home celebrations.
Very common in Lisbon. The best one is from Frutalmeidas.
Quite common especially for birthdays. For mine I always buy a cream cake with fruit because in June there's a lot of green seasonal fruit that I love.
Yes, they are are customary birthday cake in Denmark
Whipped cream and fresh fruit are pretty common in cakes, a strawberry and whipped cream cake would look more like [this](https://c8.alamy.com/compes/cyg5rr/dulce-crema-pastelera-bizcocho-tartas-para-ventanilla-de-venta-tradicional-panaderia-pasteleria-madrid-espana-cyg5rr.jpg) in a traditional bakery, [fresh fruit in cakes](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMU4ihSWk7gUvQFGDRDoer9wWpjTps5z-YS-Jwkb22tep5Ch3Ixrq7wXKz2WSwo1qwrwNzEAlYKrG_x9EegnYU_Seo4i_RlY2UhOLvnMrDggEMSn-R74w8yGwUVI5GHjZdqTAiIPp-mQM/s1600/tarta+de+frutas.jpg) a lot of time comes with that sort of glaze that makes it shiny. Strawberry cheese cakes are also common, they have a layer of jelly [that may have fresh fruit](https://okdiario.com/img/2019/12/31/tarta-de-queso-y-fresas-vegana.jpg).
It's called tort here and is very popular, not only with strawberries but all kind of things. Most people differentiate between tort and cake. Generally tort is most often bought or baked for celebrations like birthdays, weddings or other big special occasions, if anyone is walking around with one in box they will be asked what's the occasion. Other cakes are not so strongly associated with this and also bought for casual meeting or as a snack.
In Norway it's called "Bløtkake" directly translated Wetcake.
They are very common for celebrations such as birthdays. They aren't always decorated with fruit or berries, though. Besides the whipped cream, the different layers can have a flavoured cream in them to offer different tastes. The most common "neutral" ones are probably banana flavour and a sweet one close to vanilla
I think they are very common here in The Netherlands. At least the cakes in the links you gave look similar to how cakes looks like in our country.