Bakery Stall · Layered Trifle Cake
Somlói Galuska
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It was created in the 1950s by Károly Gollerits, head waiter at Budapest's Gundel restaurant, and won acclaim at the 1958 Brussels World's Fair.
A trifle-style dessert of sponge cake crumbled into layers with walnuts, raisins, rum syrup, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream, scooped into cups and sold at bakeries and dessert stalls across Transdanubia.
Why it's made this way: The name honors the Somló wine region's volcanic hills in western Hungary, tying a now-nationwide dessert back to the Transdanubian countryside it's named for.
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