The results are finally in for the Hungarian Cake of the Year contest: of five finalists, this year’s winner, the “Cake of Hungary”, is the Balaton Whipped Cream Hazelnut Cake.

The winning cake, created by Orsolya Vaslóczki of Budapest’s Sugar! Design pastry shop, is made of hazelnut whipped batter, hazelnut streusel, black currant jelly, a layer of caramel with milk chocolate, hazelnut cream, with a hazelnut oil-milk chocolate-hazelnut top. The cake is decorated with individual hazelnuts that have been coated with gold luster.

This year’s “Cake of Hungary” beat out four other delicious competitors to win the top prize. The contest’s other chief prize, the Best Sugar-Free Cake, was won by the “Pöttyös Panni” cake, created by Margit Varga of the Zazzi pastry shop in Budapest.

The Pöttyös Panni has neither added sugar nor white flour. It is made with raspberry mousse and hazelnut flour-poppy seed sponge cake, with a sweet layer of plums.

The two cakes, along with this year’s Saint Stephen’s Day bread, will be available for public tasting for this first time on August 19th-20th at “Street of Hungarian Flavors” in Budapest.

Via szeretlekmagyarorszag.hu, sutichef.hu, and MTI

source: Hungary Today