Kiev cake

noun

A Ukrainian dessert cake having two layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling.

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Meanings

nounKiev cake (plural Kiev cakes)

plural Kiev cakes

  1. A Ukrainian dessert cake having two layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling.

    A Soviet person brought face-to-face with a Kiev cake felt like a Hamelin rat, who instead of the Piper's flute suddenly heard the “Triumphal March” from Aida.

    2018, Sergey Grechishkin, Everything is Normal: The Life and Times of a Soviet Kid, page 80

Origin

Brand name, from its place of manufacture.

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Kiev cake. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kiev%20cake

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Chicago

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