Dobos cake and other delights from Hungary
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THE Hungarian Confectionary Week at Park Hotel opened on Tuesday, March 15 and will last 10 days in the historic hotel designed by legendary Hungarian architect László Hudec.
The confectionary week is a collaboration with the renowned Gerbeaud Café and Confectionery from Budapest, one of the most acclaimed coffeehouses in Europe opened by Antal Kugler in 1947.
The special menu for the Hungarian Confectionery Week features classic Hungarian desserts, and, of course, great coffee. Until the 18th century, the Hungarians used honey to make sweet dishes, before it was replaced by sugar as the basic sweetener.
Goose leg cake, a chocolate cake with chocolate cream and cognac cherry is one of Hungary’s top desserts. It’s made with dark chocolate and has a slightly bitter taste combined with the fragrant cognac cherry. Hungarian Somló sponge is made with raisins steeped in Tokaj sweet wine with chocolate sauce, whipped cream and sprinkled with walnut linzer crisp, and the Kecskemét apricot pudding is made with apricot spirit and layered on a soft biscuit.
Centuries ago, the ingredients of Hungarian confectionery products were limited to walnut, chocolate, punch and whipped egg whites. The most famous cakes are named after their inventors like József C Dobos and Henrik Kugler or after well-known historical figures like Pál Eszterházy. Kugler is still a popular product of Kugler Café. Gerbeaud, the successor of Kugler, also had significant impact on Hungarian confectionery culture: Emil Gerbeaud prepared the first Gerbeaud Slice, followed by the creation of other popular sweets like chocolate bon-bons, cherry liqueur bon-bons and cat’s tongue chocolatiers.
The most famous Hungarian cake of the time was the Dobos cake created by József C Dobos, which was simple but elegant compare with other cakes. The chocolate buttercream and the pastry of the cake were both Dobos’s inventions, and the cake remains part of Hungarian national confectionary culture until today.
Date: March 15 to 25
Venue: Café at Park Hotel
Address: 170 Nanjing Rd W.
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