Caution: This 'tasteless' 9/11 cake will make you lose hope in pastry

A cake depicting Austria's main political parties as New York's twin towers being attacked by opposition party aircraft is seen in a cafe in Vienna, Austria. Photo: REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

A baker in Vienna, Austria, has stirred up public anger by baking what critics are calling a “tasteless” cake. Why? Because it depicts the fateful moment when New York's Twin Towers came under attack on Sept 11, 2001.

"It's ironic that a baker has no taste," writes one critic on the website of the mass-circulation Heute tabloid that highlighted the unusual creation. "I would call this incitement to terrorism," writes another.