We got to celebrate it in style with an Official Hungarian Dobos Torta - pronounced Dobosh- invented by an Hungarian baker named Dobos. This is a similar cake that I grew up with in New Orleans that we called Doberge Cake. Come to find out a Hungarian woman living in New Orleans in the 1940's adapted the chocolate buttercream filling and carmel topping Torta with pudding/custard filling and chocolate or lemon fondant to make some extra money. She sold the recipe to Gambinos & Maurices and changed the name to Doberge to make it sound more French. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doberge_cake
We celebrated with our Hungarian hosts Ference & Anna Ihasz and another colleague Miklos Banhidi. Ryan asked for Red Beans & Rice, Coleslaw & Cornbread -- his favorite meal. Shopping for these ingredients was fun at the local grocery. Cabbage & Corn meal are popular here so that wasn't too much of a stretch, found some huge dark dry red beans and used google translator to help with the seasonings.
Oh Happy Day -- Our growing young man
Karyn
1 comment:
hmmm, I posted a comment on this but doesn't look like it went through. Cake looks Amazing!!!
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