Dobos torte

/ˈdoʊˌboʊʃ//ˈdoʊˌboʊs/

noun

A Hungarian sponge cake layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with caramel.

Meanings

nounDobos torte (countable and uncountable, plural Dobos tortes or Dobos torten)

plural Dobos tortes · plural Dobos torten

  1. countableuncountableA Hungarian sponge cake layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with caramel.

    Finally Mickey took pictures of Cica, Taggy, Puppo and Lurko eating Dobos torte (six thin layers of cake filled with chocolate cream topped with a caramel crust), on the terrace of the Intercontinental Hotel.

    1979, Kati Rekai, chapter 10, in The Adventures of Mickey, Taggy, Puppo and Cica, and How They Discover Budapest, Toronto, Ont.: Canadian Stage and Arts Publications, →ISBN, page 120
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    I would like to state some facts about Dobos torten (never Dobosch, as the s is pronounced sh in Hungarian) and Sacher torten (by the way, the plural for torte is torten, not tortes as you state.) […] A Dobos Torte should always have nine layers, although most American cookbooks encourage six, probably due to the fact that it is a nuisance and very time consuming to bake nine very thin layers.

    1973 April 24, Beth Tartan, quoting a reader, “Speaking of Food: A Reader Sets the Food Columnist Straight”, in Winston-Salem Journal, 77th year, number 19, Winston-Salem, N.C., →OCLC, page 17, column 1

Origin

Named after its inventor, Hungarian confectioner József C. Dobos.

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Translations

Bulgarian до́буш
  • до́буш (dóbuš)Hungarian sponge cake
Hungarian dobostorta
  • dobostortaHungarian sponge cake
Polish tort Dobosa
  • tort DobosaHungarian sponge cake
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