Kiev cake
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Brand name, from its place of manufacture.
Noun
[edit]Kiev cake (plural Kiev cakes)
- A Ukrainian dessert cake having two layers of meringue with hazelnuts, chocolate glaze, and a buttercream-like filling.
- 2018, Sergey Grechishkin, Everything is Normal: The Life and Times of a Soviet Kid, page 80:
- A Soviet person brought face-to-face with a Kiev cake felt like a Hamelin rat, who instead of the Piper's flute suddenly heard the “Triumphal March” from Aida.