The August 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Angela of A Spoonful of Sugar and Lorraine of Not Quite Nigella. They chose the spectacular Dobos Torte based on a recipe from Rick Rodgers’ cookbook Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Caffés of Vienna, Budapest, and Prague.
Imagine an office, filled with the tapping of a cache of keyboards, the twitter hushed phone conversations. Suddenly infiltrated for the day by the twinkling haze of balloons and streamers. The commemoration of another birthday. Another year shared with workmates, not of your choosing, fittingly celebrated with a dry, overwhelmingly sugary, fluffed up slice of fake cake. The kind of dessert that requires a cool glass of water, or two, to wash the unpleasant coating from the your insides.
Obviously, they didn’t spring for a Dobos Torte birthday cake.
