Gerbeaud Cake (Traditional Hungarian Dessert) 🇭🇺..

Ohhh yes 😍 you mean the Gerbeaud Cake (Zserbó szelet) — one of Hungary’s most iconic layered desserts 🇭🇺. It was created by Emil Gerbeaud, the famous Swiss-Hungarian confectioner, and is still a showstopper at Hungarian cafes, weddings, Easter, and Christmas.

It’s a rich, layered yeast-dough pastry filled with apricot jam and walnuts, then topped with shiny chocolate glaze.

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🍰 Gerbeaud Cake (Zserbó szelet)

Ingredients (for a 9×13 inch pan)

For the dough:

• 4 cups (500 g) all-purpose flour
• 1 packet (7 g) instant yeast (or 25 g fresh yeast)
• ½ cup (100 g) sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 1 cup (225 g) unsalted butter, softened
• 2 large egg yolks
• ½ cup (120 ml) warm milk
• ¼ cup (60 ml) sour cream

For the filling:

• 1 ½ cups (200 g) ground walnuts
• 1 cup (200 g) sugar
• 1 ½ cups (400 g) good quality apricot jam

For the glaze:

• 4 oz (120 g) dark chocolate
• 2 tbsp butter or 2 tbsp oil

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