- Dobos Cake
Dobos Cake ( "DOE-boesh" /'doboš/, Hungarian: "dobostorta") is a famous Hungarian cake, invented by and named after a well-known Hungarian
confectioner , József C. Dobos (1847-1924) in 1884. It is a five-layersponge cake , layered withchocolate buttercream and topped with thincaramel slices. The sides of the cake are sometimes coated with groundhazelnut s,chestnut s,walnut s oralmond s but the original cake is without coat, since it was a slice of a bigcake . Dobos's aim was to make a cake that would last longer than other pastries, in an age when cooling techniques were limited. The caramel topping helps keep the cake from drying out. The cake is also often called 'Dobos-torta' or 'Dobostorta'.History
Dobosh Torte or Dobos Torte (type of cake) was first introduced at the "National General Exhibition of Budapest" in 1885; Franz Joseph I and his Empress Elisabeth were among the first to taste it. The cake soon became popular throughout
Europe as it was different from all others. It was simple but elegant, as opposed to the multi-storey, flaming cakes of the age. Its other secret was its use of finebuttercream , which was very little known at the time; cake fillings and frostings were usually made with cooked pastry cream orwhipped cream . The chocolate buttercream and the batter of the cake were both invented by Jozsef C. Dobos.Dobos travelled around Europe and introduced the cake wherever he went. For a long time he kept the exact recipe confidential, until 1906 when he retired and gave the original recipe to the "Budapest Confectioners' and Gingerbread Makers' Chamber of Industry", providing that every member of the chamber can use it freely.
Dobos
Torte is known everywhere in the world and there are more than one hundred recipe variations. It is a commonly made torte in the upscale hotels, restaurants and pastry shops of the world. Another famous Hungarian dessert created in the same era isRigo Jancsi .External links
* [http://www.grainfields.com/RecipeDatabase/PastryRecipes/DobosTorte.htm Dobos Torte]
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