Well attestedNamed from the place
Kiev cake
noun · first attested 1956
A factory mistake in 1956 is the cake's own official origin story.
A Ukrainian cake of nut-studded meringue layers sandwiched with buttercream.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 1956
- Part of speech
- noun
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Kyiv
- In English
Kiev cake
The Karl Marx confectionery factory in Kyiv, now part of Roshen, produced the first cakes in 1956, and the company's own legend credits a batch of egg whites left out overnight. English keeps the older Kiev transliteration in the cake's name even though the city is now written Kyiv.
Ukraine
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