Chocotorta
As the name suggests, this is indeed a chocolate cake, although quite unlike any other. This ubiquitous sweet treat is a chocoholics dream: a multilayered cake with an Argentine twist. One layer of dark chocolate biscuit is followed by a layer of dulce de leche mixed with a cream cheese equivalent, followed by another layer of dulce de leche, and on and on it goes… The biscuits are dipped in coffee before they are added to each layer, making an already sweet cake even sweeter! Did I mention you don’t even need to bake it?
Chocotorta can be made in a variety of ways, some soak the biscuits in coffee, others in milk, or sometimes even wine; whilst some top the cake off with a layer of icing, others with dulce de leche, or, simply with a final biscuit layer. Whatever chocotorta you come across, you can be sure it will include the staples: biscuit and dulce de leche.