This torn pancake with apple is an Austro-Bavarian specialty and translates as 'emperor’s mess'. There are many stories about its origins, but one goes that Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, the wife of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, was worried about her waistline, so instructed the court chef to cook lighter desserts. The cook concocted this sweet, but the empress rejected it as being too rich. The emperor, however, liked it so much, he ate his wife’s serving too.