Sans rival

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Sans rival
Pili Sansrival.jpg
Sans rival made with pili nut
Course Dessert
Place of origin The Philippines
Region or state Dumaguete, Negros Oriental
Main ingredients Meringue, buttercream, cashews

Sans rival is a Filipino dessert cake made of layers of buttercream, meringue and chopped cashews. Its name means "without rival" in French. The cake may be decorated, left plain, or garnished with pistachios.

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The cake's origins are disputed. One source claims the recipe has its roots in the French dacquoise, [1] while Lucy Torres-Gomez, writing in The Philippine Star , claims that the cake is descended from the tarta imperial rusa, the Spanish adaption of a Russian cake which was popular with the Russian Imperial Family. [2]

A similar, smaller version of this recipe is called a silvana.

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References

  1. Raymund (March 22, 2013). "angsarap.net" . Retrieved November 27, 2013.
  2. Torres-Gomez, Lucy (February 15, 2009). "A sweet story from Russia to Spain to Manila". The Philippine Star . Retrieved January 4, 2021.