{ Dobos Torte at Gerbeaud Confectionery Budapest, Hungary. Photo courtesy of Bruce Tuten. }
{ congratulations Earth Mother of “In the Raw”! }
This Hungarian dobos torte, or dobostorta is certainly original, beautiful, and has never been “rawified” before to my knowledge. And although I’ve never tried a real one, from the sound of it it’s well worth a stab at a raw conversion. Now, I may very well have bitten off more than I can chew. But I now have a whole week to prepare and attempt to perfect this treat. A well detailed history and description of this dessert can be found here. In Earth Mother’s own words, “…the chocolate butter cream layers are definitely melt-in-your-mouth. The cake layers are kinda spongey. Very light & airy, but not dry. The hard carmel glaze on top is very sweet. Again, melts in your mouth.“ Boy do I have a lot to live up to, but I love a challenge.
Now, this winning torte wasn’t an easy choice. There were soooo many great entries from all of you, and some honorable mentions include:
- Cadbury Egg from Bitt
- Chocolate eclairs from “rrnancyr”
- Cannolis from Lauren
- German chocolate cake roll from Raw Candy
- Boston cream pie from Whitvia
- French neopolitan from SingerintheKitchen
- Pineapple upside-down cake from Just Audrey
- Bavarian delight from Laura J.
- Oreo cheesecake from Jenn
- French Silk pie from Megan
- Cookie dough truffles from The Ordinary Vegetarian
Matter of fact, I’m going to keep some of these under my hat, because I just may make one (or two or three) for a future sweets recipe here at Julie’s Raw Ambition.
There were several entries for tiramisu, chocolate lava cake, peanut butter cups, brownies, and various cheesecakes, which, as tempting as they are, do exist somewhere in the raw dessert universe either via book or internet. I really wanted to do something original, something that isn’t out there yet. And after all of the research I’ve done for this contest, there are very few things left that someone hasn’t made raw. I think that’s pretty awesome.
So congratulations again, Earth Mother! Be on the look-out during the next week or so for the UPS man with your box of raw sweets ingredients from Sunfood.com!
A big THANK YOU to all that participated! The raw Hungarian dobos torte reveal will be exactly one week from today on March 12.
<3, JMK
