Esterhazy cake for November orders at MuffinTaffin

In mid-November, MuffinTaffin sets Hungarian Esterhazy with the other cakes in Budva. Orders cover a slice or a whole cake, and that is how sales run on the Montenegro counter.

Almond layers and a chocolate web

The classic torta stacks thin almond-meringue sheets with pale buttercream. A white icing top gets a dark chocolate web, the mark bakers still use to recognize Esterhazy.

Sheets are baked until dry, cooled, then layered so the slice stays light. At MuffinTaffin the cake is cut when an order is called, wrapped for the walk home, or held for a table later the same day.

The dessert took its name from the Esterhazy family and spread through cafés in the nineteenth century. In Budva it is one of the cakes already on the menu, ready for November orders.