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Prăjitură cu caise is a traditional cake originating from Romania. The cake is usually made with a combination of flour, yogurt, eggs, apricots, sugar, oil, vanilla, salt, and baking powder. The egg whites are whisked into soft peaks and set aside.
The egg yolks are whisked with sugar and mixed with the oil, vanilla, salt, and yogurt. Flour and baking powder are added to the mix, along with the egg whites that are folded into the mix. The batter is poured into a baking tin and the apricot halves are arranged on top before the cake is baked until it becomes firm to the touch.
Amandine is a traditional chocolate cake that's filled either with chocolate or almond cream. The cake has four components – the sponge cake, the syrup, the filling, and the glaze. The sponge cake is made with eggs, sugar, water, flour, oil, and cocoa, the filling (chocolate buttercream) consists of eggs, sugar, butter, vanilla, and cocoa, the syrup is made with water, sugar, and rum, and the glaze is made with chocolate and whipping cream.
Of course, there are many recipes for this cake, so the ingredients may vary in some cases. Amandina has been popular in Romanian confectioneries ever since the 1960s, and it's usually decorated with a bit of the cream and a thin, diamond-shaped chocolate piece on top.
MOST ICONIC Amandine
Joffre cake is a rich, layered chocolate and buttermilk cake that was invented in 1920 in Bucharest. Built in 1852, a restaurant, hotel, and cafe called Casa Capsa was thought to be a symbol of Romanian high society, a place where the most special dinner parties in Bucharest took place.
When Marshal Joffre, leader of the French army, visited the country in 1920, the Capsa brothers organized a special event in his honor and made a special cake that was named after the Marshall. The size and shape of the cake are thought to be modeled after the French casquettes worn in World War I by the Marshall's troops.
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