Doberge cake

Doberge cake
Doberge cake

Doberge cake is a layered dessert originating in New Orleans, Louisiana. Still popular in the area, the cake is made of multiple thin layers of cake alternating with dessert pudding. Very often the cakes are made with half chocolate pudding and half lemon pudding. They are covered in a thin layer of butter cream and a fondant shell or, alternately, a poured glaze on the outside. They are normally made with six or more layers, but many amateurs make versions with fewer. Traditional flavors are chocolate, lemon and caramel.

History

Beulah Ledner opened a bakery in New Orleans in 1933. She became very successful after creating a Doberge cake adapted from the famous Hungarian/Austrian Dobos Cake, a cake made of nine génoise cake layers filled with buttercream and topped with a hard caramel glaze.[1] The doberge cake is based on a recipe originating in Alsace-Lorraine. Ledner replaced the buttercream filling of the Dobos Cake with a custard filling and iced the cakes with buttercream and a thin layer of fondant.[1]

Beulah Ledner's recipe is available in the cookbook, Let's bake with Beulah Ledner: A legendary New Orleans Lady by Maxine Wolchansky.[2]

In 1946 Joe Gambino bought the name, recipe and retail shop, including her recipe for doberge cake. After a couple of years of illness, she reopened in a new location on Metairie Road under the name "Beulah Ledner, Inc." As her business and popularity grew, her son, Albert, designed and built a new building and a new machine to mass produce sheet cakes using his mother's recipes. She opened her new bakery on May 21, 1970; she ran it until the age of 87 when she sold the shop and doberge recipe to Maurice's French Pastries, which is still in the business of baking and selling Doberge cakes in Metairie, Louisiana.

References

  1. ^ a b Guas, David; Raquel Pelzel (2009). DamGood Sweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style. Newtown, Connecticut: Taunton Press. pp. 60–64. ISBN 978-1-60085-118-6. 
  2. ^ Wolchansky, Maxine (1987). "Let's bake" with Beulah Ledner: A legendary New Orleans Lady. Southern Graphics. 

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