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Dobos torte

/ˈdoʊˌboʊʃ/

Dobos torte noun: a Hungarian sponge cake layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with caramel.

dobos torte: a Hungarian sponge cake layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with caramel
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Noun

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

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

Forms of Dobos torte

pluralDobos tortes
pluralDobos torten

Origin of Dobos torte

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

Questions about Dobos torte

What does Dobos torte mean?
Dobos torte means a Hungarian sponge cake layered with chocolate buttercream and topped with caramel.
What part of speech is Dobos torte?
Dobos torte is a noun.
How do you pronounce Dobos torte?
Dobos torte is pronounced /ˈdoʊˌboʊʃ/.
What is the plural of Dobos torte?
The plural of Dobos torte is Dobos tortes.

Words near Dobos torte in the dictionary

  1. Dobles
  2. doblon
  3. doblones
  4. doblons
  5. Dobos
  6. Dobos torte
  7. Dobos torten
  8. Dobos tortes
  9. Dobosz
  10. Doboszes
  11. dobra

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