Kirby's Dream Buffet: Baumkuchen Course Guide
Baumkuchen is a German style of cake popular in Japan, and it's featured as one of the food-inspired racecourses in Kirby's Dream Buffet. The Baumkuchen track is characterized by frequent opportunities for speed boosts, using the hilly terrain to your advantage. While the course has no cannons for skipping sections of the track, it features instead several opportunities to use narrow bridges as shortcuts.
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Baumkuchen also has one of the game's most impressive set-pieces, a tunnel of rotating rings near the end. Knowing how to use each section of the race to your advantage will let you collect far more strawberries than are available on most courses!
The beginning of Baumkuchen is mostly flat, with some small speed bumps that you can easily jump. This soon gives way to rolling hills, and that's more than just a descriptive name! Time your jumps so that you clear the upward incline, hitting the downward slope of each hill, and you can get an early increase to your momentum and pull ahead in the race!
The last set of cake rolls are narrow here, but falling off isn't the end of the world - your opponents will be delayed by the Cookie Wall immediately beyond, so you'll be able to catch up.
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After the first Cookie Wall, the course takes a winding, back-and-forth pattern. There are several opportunities to take shortcuts here by zipping across narrow bridges of crackers and forks. The first player across each will be able to help themselves to the extra fruit and a healthy lead.
If the course has a pink-and-yellow color palette, the bridges will instead cross the center hole in
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