Bizcocho dominicano is a layered butter cake distinguished by three elements that set it apart from a generic white cake: orange juice used in place of milk or water in the batter, a tropical fruit filling — traditionally pineapple jam or guava paste — spread between the layers, and a frosting of Italian meringue called […]

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Boston cream pie is two layers of yellow butter sponge cake filled with vanilla pastry cream and finished on top with a poured chocolate glaze. It is not a pie. The name comes from the mid-nineteenth century practice of baking cakes and pies in the same interchangeable tins, and the casual use of the terms […]

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