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The recipe is credited to Harry Baker (1883–1974), a Californian insurance salesman turned caterer. Baker kept the recipe secret for 20 years until he sold it to General Mills, which spread the recipe through marketing materials in the 1940s and 1950s under the name "chiffon cake", and a set of 14 recipes and variations was released to the public in a Betty Crocker pamphlet published in 1948.
Dobash cake (or Dobosh), is a layered chocolate cake filled and topped with a chocolate pudding-like frosting originating in Hawaii, adapted by local baker Robert Taira from the Hungarian Dobos torte. [1] The cake is made of two to three layers of chocolate chiffon cake alternating with dessert pudding, sometimes dusted with crumbs.
A dessert made of two round pieces of chocolate cake with a sweet, creamy frosting serving as the filling. Wine cake: Colombia: A cake made with wine. Wingko: Indonesia: A traditional pancake made mainly of coconut. Yema cake: Philippines: A chiffon cake with a custard filling known as yema. Zuger Kirschtorte: Switzerland
The Japanese had been making desserts for centuries before sugar was widely available in Japan. Many desserts commonly available in Japan can be traced back hundreds of years. [1] In Japanese cuisine, traditional sweets are known as wagashi, and are made using ingredients such as red bean paste and mochi.
Similar to chiffon cake or soufflé, Japanese cheesecake has a fluffy texture produced by whipping egg white and egg yolk separately. It is traditionally made in a bain-marie. [2] [6] The cake is the signature dish of Uncle Tetsu's Cheesecake, a Japanese bakery chain which originated in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka, in 1947. [7] [8]
Pandan cake is a light, fluffy, green-coloured sponge cake [5] flavoured with the juices of Pandanus amaryllifolius leaves. [6] [7] It is also known as pandan chiffon.[1] [2] The cake is popular in Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, China, and also the Netherlands.
After the war, the Pilsbury company was in 1948 the first to sell a chocolate cake mix, [5] and in 1951 the "Three Star Surprise" mix from Duncan Hines (so called because a white, yellow or chocolate cake could be made from the same mix) [6] swept the market.
Its antithetical counterpart, the angel food cake, is a very light white cake that uses stiffly beaten egg whites and no dairy. Devil's food cake is sometimes distinguished from other chocolate cakes by the use of additional baking soda (sodium bicarbonate), which raises the pH level and makes the cake a deeper and darker mahogany color. [4]