A Kyiv cake () is a

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of dessert cake, made in

Kyiv Kyiv, also spelled Kiev, is the capital and most populous city of Ukraine. It is in north-central Ukraine along the Dnieper River. As of 1 January 2021, its population was 2,962,180, making Kyiv the seventh-most populous city in Europe. Kyi ...

Ukraine Ukraine ( uk, Україна, Ukraïna, ) is a country in Eastern Europe. It is the second-largest European country after Russia, which it borders to the east and northeast. Ukraine covers approximately . Prior to the ongoing Russian inv ...

since December 6, 1956 by the Karl Marx Confectionery Factory (now a subsidiary of the

Roshen Roshen Confectionery Corporation ( uk, Кондитерська корпорація «Роше́н», Kondyterska korporatsiya "Roshen") is a Ukrainian confectionery manufacturing group. It operates facilities in the Ukrainian cities of Kyiv, ...

corporation). It soon became popular all over the

Soviet Union The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...

. The cake has become one of the symbols of Kyiv, particularly by its brand name and package, depicting the

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leaf, the informal coat of arms of Kyiv. The cake has two airy layers of

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with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a

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-like filling.

History

Once confectioners forgot to put some amount of egg-white for the biscuit in a cooler. The next morning the chef Kostyantyn Petrenko, with the help of 17-year-old assistant Nadia Chornohor, in order to hide the mistake of his colleagues, spread frozen cakes with buttercream, strewed with powder, decorated with floral ornaments. The recipe of the Kyiv cake has changed with time: in the 1970s, bakers perfected the process of making egg-white and nut mixture, then started to add hazelnut in cake and began experimenting with peanuts and cashews. However, these expensive nuts increased the cake's cost so the factory returned to using hazelnuts. The Soviet Union in those years actively supported India. It paid with goods. Thus, in 1956, the USSR received a huge batch of cashew nuts. The party instructed the country's confectioners to create a dessert using these nuts. And the Kyiv factory named after Karl Marx coped with the task best of all. Here is what they say at the factory: "The author of the recipe and production technology of the Kyiv cake is Kostiantyn Mykytovych Petrenko. We had such a head of the biscuit shop, he once worked as a master. The recipe and technology were developed in 1956. The creation of the cake was preceded by experiments for several years with ancient, exquisite recipes, because nothing appears out of nowhere."

Preparation

Nuts are fried, finely chopped and mixed with flour. Whip the egg whites, gradually adding the sugar and vanilla powder. Both mixtures are combined. The resulting dough is spread on paper in an even layer 0.6–0.7 cm thick and baked at 150–160 ° C. The baked cakes are dried for 12 hours at 25–30 ° C, then the paper is separated from them by moistening it with water. The cakes are smeared with chocolate buttercream and put together. The sides are also coated with cream and crumbs are applied to them from the remnants of the cakes. The top is trimmed with colored buttercream (an image of a blooming chestnut) and decorated with fruits and candied fruits.Торт по-киевски
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