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How many centuries have passed since the first cake was cooked? The fashion for desserts varies, but festive cake for any culinary era takes pride in the sweets. Despite the abundance of cupcakes and other types, no children’s birthday is complete without a cake with candles. Any pastry shop will offer a choice piece of classic treats.
To say reliably, who invented or perfected the first cake is impossible. In different parts of the world, the cake gradually acquired the taste and appearance familiar to us confection, gathering decorations and getting festive and pomp.
Some historians believe that this work of art, like cake, could appear only in Italy, where cooks are very careful with details and preferred a thin cut of any food. The word “cake” in Italian means “ornate, intricate” – complex not only in taste but also in appearance.
Others give authorship of sweet cakes to Eastern countries with various desserts and blending of flavors, textures, and shapes. In Eastern countries, historians believe, came the first dessert, not borrowed from bread and folded into a round shape dessert made of honey, milk, and seeds.
A fashionable cake as the dessert was first seen in French coffee houses, where they began to serve it with hot drinks like gourmet masterpieces, serving and decorating cakes differently. Not surprisingly, France has a reputation as the most romantic country globally – considerable merit and cakes!
There are many national recipes for cakes, traditional decoration, and flows in different countries, the occasions on which the cake is served to the table. Cakes relate many interesting stories, curiosities, and some of them, for different reasons, become the property of the Guinness Book of Records.
Hungary, Esterhazy
Cake with almonds and chocolate was named after the Hungarian diplomat PAL Antal esterházy, who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary during 1848-1849. It is made of 5 protein-almond cakes, interconnected buttercream with cognac. The top cake was covered with a thick layer of white icing, where the liquid chocolate is applied with a distinctive mesh pattern.
New Zealand, Pavlova Cake
This cake is made of meringue, whipped cream, fresh fruit, and berries (preferably strawberries combined with the pulp of passion fruit or raspberry)—the New Zealand cake named after the famous ballerina Anna Pavlova, who toured the country in 1926.
Germany, Black Forest
This cherry cake is also known as the “Black Forest,” it appeared in Germany in the early 1930-s. The cake consists of chocolate cake, soaked with Kirsch, filled with cherries. Decorated with black forest cherry and chocolate shavings.
USA, Boston cake
This cake embodies simplicity and perfection! It is believed that cream filling and airy cakes will not harm any figure. The taste and structure of the Boston cake are similar to the familiar bird’s milk.
Austria, A Garden, Homestay Arnold
This dessert is named after the Austrian city of Linz and is a cake of crumbly nutty dough covered with jam and a lattice of dough. Seemingly simple, it does not leave indifferent any sweet tooth, so delicate its texture.
Austria, Sacher
Pastry chef Franz Sacher invented this world-famous chocolate cake. The cake is a chocolate sponge cake with layers of apricot jam, covered completely with chocolate icing. Serves Sacher torte with whipped cream.
Hungary Dobos
This Hungarian cake consists of 6 layers of sponge cake soaked in chocolate cream and caramel glaze. Dobos loved the Austro-Hungarian Empress Elizabeth. The cake is named for its author, józsef Dobosh. In 1885 he invented the dessert, Dobos — cake, which did not decay within 10 days.
Germany, Frankfurt Kranz
The Frankfurter Kranz is a round cake with a buttercream of several layers of sand or biscuit dough. The cake is the symbol of the Royal city of Frankfurt. Its round shape symbolizes a crown, a sprinkle of praline – gold, and red cherry rubies that adorned the Royal crown.
Ukraine, Kyiv cake
The recipe for Kyiv cake was developed in 1965 at the confectionery factory Karl Marx. The cake consists of two air-nut meringue cakes with layers of cream. The cake surface is decorated with various creams and sides of cake sprinkled with walnut crumbs of hazelnut.
Records with the cakes:
The highest cake was prepared in the USA – 100 tier, height more than 30 meters.
The record for the heavy cake also belongs to America – the weight of the masterpiece was 50 tons. The bulk of the cake was made of ice cream; the cake resembled Alabama’s image and was a record.
The longest cake was made in Peru – length 246 meters. The masterpiece was divided into 15 000 pieces and treated all the Peru’s children, celebrating his birthday.
The most expensive cake in the world appeared at the exhibition in Tokyo, “Diamonds: nature’s miracle,” and was studded with diamonds in several 233 units. The cake itself was small, with a height of only 20 cm. The Cake was estimated at 1.56 million dollars.
The oldest cake at the time of its discovery was 100 years old. Cognac-soaked dessert found a farmer from South Africa. Baked a cake to celebrate a Golden wedding in 1902, but somehow forgot in the attic.