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Cake for breakfast

by Leah Koenig · May 6th, 2007

Israel

A quick follow up on my last blog post about hotel breakfast buffets in Israel: it’s true, alongside the shakshuka, eggs hardboiled in tea and spices, granola, labneh, and various fruit preserves, is chocolate cake. Warm, dark, gooey, chocolate cake, which the Israel Riders happily gobbled down at 5:30 in the morning. No wonder they had so much energy on the uphill climbs! I’ve attached two photos for proof (note the pancakes alongside the chocolate cake in the second picture) – you no longer need maple syrup to satisfy your breakfast sweetooth!