Hungarian walnut cake deserves to be preserved. Yet it is often mistaken with another famous Hungarian confection, the five layered Eszterházy. In the end, there are many claims to being an Eszterházy or walnut cake, but most often these cakes are a synthesis of two distinctly different cakes. The original walnut cake was made with cooked buttercream, but nevertheless it was a buttercream and not a custard filling. The other confusing element is what nuts to use. The Esztreházy is a torte…
