Name: Dobos Torte
Yield: Makes one 8-inch (20 cm) torte | Serves 8
Cuisine: Hungarian
Ingredients: 1 recipe Chocolate Hazelnut Buttercream; ½ tsp (2 mL) cream of tartar; 1½ cups (375 mL) whole toasted and peeled hazelnuts; 3 Tbsp (45 mL) water; ½ cup (125 mL) + 5 Tbsp (75 mL) sugar; 1 Tbsp (15 mL) lemon juice; 6 eggs, at room temperature, separated; 1 cup (250 mL) sugar; ¼ tsp (1 mL) salt; 1 cup (250 mL) cake and pastry flour; 1 tsp (5 mL) vanilla extract

Preparation info

Makes one 8 inch 20 cm ) torte | Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

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By Anna Olson

Published 2011

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This hungarian torte is made of nine wafer-thin cake layers—the torte needs to have a minimum of five layers, a chocolate buttercream, and a layer of caramelized sugar on top to qualify as a Dobos torte. Instead of making a traditional sponge cake and trying to slice it in to nine even layers (impossible!), the sponge cake is spread onto the underside of greased and floured cake pans.

Give yourself ample time and room for this torte. As is the tradition with European tortes, they ar