{"id":14859,"date":"2013-12-27T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14859"},"modified":"2013-12-27T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T11:07:07","slug":"paul-gauweiler-the-santa-of-bakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/paul-gauweiler-the-santa-of-bakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Gauweiler&#8211;The Santa of Bakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/cakebx.jpg\" width=\"680\" height=\"336\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>For more than 60 years, Paul Gauweiler has brought so much wonder and joy to people around the world, especially during the holidays, that some call him &#8220;the Santa of Bakers.&#8221; \u00a0He has baked cakes for U.S. military<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-master-chef-is-baking-cakes-for-the-troops\/\"> troops in Afghanistan<\/a>, provided &#8220;wow&#8221; pastries for &#8220;American Idol,&#8221; and regularly prepares the mouth-watering desserts for Disneyland&#8217;s Club 33.\u00a0But what &#8220;Santa Paul&#8221; is best known for internationally, is his acclaimed &#8220;Baumkuchens&#8221; (also known as tree cakes) that can be shipped for special events.\u00a0Thanks goodness Paul&#8217;s mom never told him: &#8220;If you can\u2019t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/dining\/huntington-beach-cake-box.html\">Read more about Paul<\/a>, or\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">call<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0 The Cake Box: (<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">714) 842-9132 \/ \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">cakeboxpastries.com \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/treec1.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>1. Paul pours layer by layer on a rotating spit in front of dozens of gas-fired flames that brown each layer.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/treec2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>2. They have at least 8 layers and as many as 20 with flavors such as apricot, almond and chocolate.<\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/small\/treec3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0Forty inches is the tallest Baumkuchen, which serves up to 140 people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald For more than 60 years, Paul Gauweiler has brought so much wonder and joy to people around the world, especially during the holidays, that some call him &#8220;the Santa of Bakers.&#8221; \u00a0He has baked cakes for U.S. military troops in Afghanistan, provided &#8220;wow&#8221; pastries for &#8220;American Idol,&#8221; and regularly prepares the mouth-watering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}