In the list of 100 most delicious pastries in the world recently announced by the famous culinary site TasteAtlas, a representative from Vietnam was named.
Recently, TasteAtlas – a website dubbed the “world food map” has announced a list of 100 most delicious pastries globally. Voting criteria are based on the popularity of the dish.
In the ranking of 100 most famous cakes in the world this year, a representative of Vietnam was named pork skin cake.
Pig skin cake is a pretty famous dessert in Vietnam, especially in the Southern provinces (Photo: Ngan Pham).
Referring to the specialty cake of Vietnam, TasteAtlas described: “Pig skin cake is a traditional Vietnamese dessert, consisting of layers of chewy cakes interwoven. The cake is made from mashed mung beans, tapioca starch. , rice flour and coconut milk.
In the traditional way, each pig skin cake will have a light yellow layer made from green beans and a green layer made from pandan leaves. In addition, other ingredients such as durian or taro can be used flexibly.”
The cake consists of many layers overlapping with softness, thinness, and toughness like pig skin (Photo: Ngan Pham).
It is known that pork skin cake is one of the famous specialties originating from the Southern provinces. This type of cake can be made and eaten all year round thanks to easy-to-find and easy-to-cook ingredients. The cake is soft, supple, and tough like pig skin, so it is so named.
Pig skin cake has a cool, sweet and fragrant taste, not boring to eat. Cakes are created with many different shapes and colors, eye-catching and attractive to diners (Photo: Xuan Kieu Kado).
In addition, topping the list of 100 most delicious pastries in the world is Pavlova cake. The cake is named after Anna Pavlovna Pavlova – a famous Russian ballet dancer. The Taste Atlas page describes the Pavlova cake as a summer dessert, “as delicate as the ballerina for which it is named”.
The cake is made from whipped cream, topped with a layer of custard made from snow sugar. Then, people put on it a layer of fruit such as peaches, cherries, berries… (Photo: Spruce Eats).Kasutera is a traditional sponge cake from the Nagasaki region, Japan. This cake is made from sugar, flour, eggs and starch syrup, especially does not contain butter or oil, has a soft, moist, spongy texture. In the 16th century, Portuguese merchants brought Kasutera to Japan. Cakes are created with many different flavors such as chocolate, green tea, brown sugar, honey… (Photo: Cooking with dog).Another famous Austrian cake that also appears on this list is the original Sachertorte. This cake was invented in 1832 by chef Franz Sacher when he was only 16 years old. This is a classic, multi-layered chocolate sponge cake topped with high quality apricot jam. Sachertorte is said to taste best when served with unsweetened ice cream (Image: Food and Wine).Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte is the name representing Germany in the list of 100 most delicious pastries in the world. This cake is made from chocolate, whipped cream and cherries (Photo: Kuechengoetter).New York-Style Cheesecake (New York-style cheesecake) is a famous and loved cake when coming to New York, USA. The cake has a dense, heavy but very soft texture with a sweet and very fragrant taste, not chewy (Photo: Junior’s). Medovik is a famous Russian layered honey cake. The core of the cake is no different from ordinary cakes, but it is harder and sweeter thanks to the addition of honey. A Medovik cake is considered perfect if there are exactly 8 layers of cake and cream mixed in (Photo: Abmauri).In Sicily, Italy, there is a famous dessert called Cassata. It consists of a sponge cake that is sprinkled with fruit juice, topped with fresh fruit, and finally topped with chocolate mousse and ricotta cheese. Sicilian people often eat Cassata in spring and winter, especially during Easter (Photo: Sena Scander/TasteAtlas).
