Cakes and Desserts

What this quiz asks

• Black Forest gâteau, with cherries, cream and chocolate, comes from which country?
• Tiramisu layers coffee-soaked sponge fingers with a cream made from which cheese?
• The dessert shown, a set custard turned out with runny caramel on top, is known in France as what?
• The pavlova, a meringue topped with cream and fruit, was named after what kind of performer?
• The Sachertorte, a chocolate cake with apricot jam, was created in which city?
• A baked Alaska has cold ice cream inside a meringue that is browned in a hot oven.
• Which fruit is used in a classic French tarte Tatin?
• Baklava layers thin filo pastry and chopped nuts, then soaks them in what?
• Select ALL of these desserts that are made with meringue.
• Which Italian dessert's name means 'cooked cream'?
• Was the Victoria sponge cake named after Queen Victoria?
• Which Latin American cake is soaked in evaporated milk, condensed milk and cream?
• Eton mess, a jumble of strawberries, cream and crushed meringue, is named after a famous English school.
• Which French pastry's name means 'a thousand leaves'?
• Profiteroles and éclairs are made from which kind of pastry?
• Order these desserts by when they first appeared, from oldest to newest.
• The Dobos torte, a layered sponge topped with hard caramel, comes from which country?
• Kouign-amann, a caramelised butter cake, comes from which French region?
• In what year did Auguste Escoffier create the peach Melba for the singer Nellie Melba?
• Select ALL of these desserts that are served frozen.