Not to be confused with tort, a civil wrong at law.

A torte is a cake made primarily with eggs, sugar, and ground nuts instead of flour. Variations may include bread crumbs as well as some flour.^[1] Tortes are Central European in origin. The word torte is derived from the German word Torte (pronounced [ˈtoʀtə], which has a somewhat different meaning), which was derived from the Italian word torta, which was used to describe a round cake or bread. ^[1]

The most well-known of the typical tortes include the Austrian Sacher torte and Linzertorte and the many-layered Hungarian Dobos torte. But other well-known European confections are also tortes, such as the French Gâteau St. Honoré. Tortes are commonly baked in a Springform pan.

An element common to most tortes is sweet icing. (Exceptions include several French tortes, such as Gâteau Mercédès and Gâteau Alcazar.) When the cake is layered, a thick covering of icing is placed between the layers, and there is almost always icing on the tops and sides of the torte. A number of European tortes do not have layers.

In America, wedding cakes are sometimes called tortes, and their creation has developed into quite a complicated technique of its own.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Well-known European tortes

• Black Forest cake
• Dobos torte
• Gâteau Alcazar
• Gâteau Mercédès
• Gâteau Pithiviers
• Gâteau Progrès
• Linzer torte
• Napoleon (Lithuanian) Torte
• Reform Torte
• Sacher torte
• Simnel cake
• St. Honoré Cake
• Tarta de Santiago
• Vasa's Torte
• Zwieback cake

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[edit] External links

torte recipe at the London Times Nov. 24 2007