Talk:Dobos torte

Picture

Changed the picture. This is the original "Dobos cake", the way it was invented and baked by Mr Dobos in the beginning .

Warrington (talk) 10:38, 30 August 2008 (UTC)

Taste

The taste is chewy and gummy and you feel a tinny tickle on the tongue wile chewing on this splendid cake 23:11, 30 October 2008 99.232.235.154 (Talk) (2,672 bytes) (→External links)

Spelling

I maintain that Dobos Torte is the proper spelling in the English language for this dessert. See, for example:

• Webster's New World College Dictionary
• Cook's recipe.com
• Food and Wine magazine website
• Food Network (from the Wolfgang Puck's Austria: A Journey Home episode)
• Wolfgang Puck website
• Oxford English Dictionary Online is criticized for, among of things, using Dobos Torte instead of the Hungarian spelling

in this review

Rmhermen (talk) 17:27, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Comment Relevant discussions can be found at User talk:Rmhermen#The Hungarian cake Still, Dobos torta is prevalently used according to my survey. My question about the above links, are they reliable except Webster, and Food Network? --Caspian blue 18:18, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Drum Cake

My family believed - probably erroneously - that the real reason for the name of the cake is that the cake looks like a drum: 'dob' is Hungarian for 'drum,' so 'dobos torta' means 'drum cake'; the creator's name being Dobos is a coincidence... See, for example, http://easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/hungariandesserts/r/doboshtorte.htm, for 'drum cake' or http://www.angel.org.il/story5_en.aspx, which mentions both etymologies. Can somebody with more Hungarian than I add something about this, or provide a more definitive reference, one way or another? Köszönöm szépen... Peter G. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.59.62.22 (talk) 17:15, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

It's definitely named after its creator (the drum-like shape is the coincidence). Meskobalazs (talk) 20:45, 2 July 2020 (UTC)

How many layers?

The text describes this as The five-layer pastry, but the photo sure looks like six layers. Maybe there's no set number of layers and different people make it differently? The text shouldn't contradict the photo, at least not without some explanation. Either way, it looks good to eat :-)— Preceding unsigned comment added by RoySmith (talk • contribs)

And the reference was for a seven-layer cake lol. I changed it to "layered", and maybe there's a reference listing a historically-specific number. MartinezMD (talk) 20:02, 4 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks. BTW, I followed the reference and found there a photo of a slice of cake which, while a little hard to count in the photo, I'm pretty sure has fewer than seven layers :-) -- RoySmith (talk) 21:16, 4 March 2018 (UTC)