 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.
