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Sweet temptations: donuts are the first choice during carnival.
Renate Neumaier and Monika Braun from the Erdinger Bakery Neumaier present the colorful calorie bombs.
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Berliners, doughnuts, jam kebabs – the sweet pastries are on everyone's lips again at carnival time.
If you look at the bakery's displays, you can't get enough of the many different varieties.
Erding - “The customer always looks forward to donut season,” assures Renate Neumaier from the bakery of the same name in the middle of Erding.
The demand is enormous.
By midday there were already large gaps in many of the metal sheets.
“The main business of the week around Nonsense Thursday hasn’t even started yet,” says Neumaier.
After the long Christmas season, customers are looking forward to the colorful carnival.
The large selection of different types of donuts is also colorful.
With a total of 20 different varieties, including vanilla, eggnog, Black Forest cherry, champagne, mango lassi and strawberry lime, there is something for every taste at the Neumaier bakery.
Her customers' favorites: donuts with vanilla filling and the bee sting style donut.
But the classics with apricot filling and powdered sugar were the best.
But Renate Neumaier is a little surprised: “Doughnuts containing alcohol are no longer as popular as they used to be.”
“Sensational” – that’s Martin Brugger’s (Martin’s Backstube) verdict on this year’s donut business.
As every year, the bakery with its several branches in the district is extremely happy during the carnival season.
Up to 800 donuts are sold every day.
“It doesn’t get much more than that,” says Brugger happily.
The bakery is offering 18 different varieties this year.
Here too, the vanilla and bee sting donut is one of the most popular.
Other varieties, such as raspberry or strawberry, fluctuate in popularity, says Brugger.
However, nothing gets in the way of the classic with rosehip filling in the Martin's bakery - it is and remains the most popular.
If you want to try something new, you can treat yourself to a cheesecake or cow patch donut.
The carnival season is one of the most important for bakers.
The Kreitmaier bakery in Erding was an absolute hit this year with its Germknödel doughnut.
The somewhat unusual donut is almost better received by customers than the traditional one with apricot, says a saleswoman.
You can also find special creations with strawberry mascarpone or pistachio flavor in the bakery.
A small but fine selection of sweet carnival pastries is available at the Neumaier bakery in Reithofen.
The craft business spoils its customers during the carnival season with the varieties raspberry, vanilla, nougat and chocolate as well as the typical Bavarian apricot donut.
As in previous years, this is going relatively well.
“Since carnival is a little earlier this year, the donut season is of course a little shortened,” says owner and master Jakob Neumaier.
Nevertheless, the donut business is doing well from 14 days before the official carnival.
There is nothing exotic among the five different varieties, but they are still popular, according to Neumaier.
“It doesn’t always have to be something exotic,” he says.
“Everyone should do it the way they want.” The apricot jam donut remains number one here too.
The raspberry version ranks right behind it.
The Neumaier bakery has a carnival surprise in store for its customers: Since Corona, there has always been a special donut to choose from in the week from Shrove Tuesday.
This year it's one with children's chocolate.
Teresa Stengel