Dobos Cake

Name: Dobos Cake
Yield: Serves 12
Cuisine: Hungarian
Ingredients: 6 eggs; 100 g (3½ oz) plain flour, sifted; 40 g (1½ oz) butter; 50 g (1¾ oz) icing sugar; 270 g (9½ oz) butter; 20 g (¾ oz) caster sugar; 4 eggs; 200 g (7 oz) icing sugar; 200 g (7 oz) dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids), melted; 40 g (1½ oz) 100% cacao, melted; 250 g (9 oz) caster sugar; 200 g (7 oz) dark chocolate (minimum 70% cocoa solids), melted

Preparation info

Serves
12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

World's Best Cakes

By Roger Pizey

Published 2013

About

This multi-layered cake with chocolate buttercream and a super-crisp caramel layer on top is named after its creator Jozsef Dobos, a famous restaurateur and confectioner from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its popularity in Hungary as a showstopping cake has not diminished since.

Ingredients

For the sponge

40 g (1½ oz) butter
50 g (1¾

Europe
Hungary
Eastern Europe
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to 170°C/325°F/gas mark 3, and line three large baking trays with baking parchment. You’ll also need to line a 21cm (8in) springform cake tin with baking parchment.
Draw six circles (of 21cm (8in)) on the three sheets of parchment and