Russia isn't known for food tourism, but the Esterhazy cake is worth trying. It's a Russian take on French mille-feuille with thin nut cake layers and lots of cream, best eaten as a small dessert with coffee.
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Truth be told, nobody really comes to Russia for the food. But while you're here, you might as well enjoy yourself. And there are a couple of good desserts they make here, based especially on things like based on cream and that kind of stuff, or fruit, indigenous fruit like berries. apples, pears. One of the things I like is called an Esterhazy cake. It's essentially like a French mille-feuille with a lot of different layers of cake with cream in between, but instead of having a phyllo-type dough, it's very, very thin sheets of a nut cake type of thing. A yeasted nutty-type cake sliced up and essentially Essentially, this is what it looks like. This probably is not the best esterhazy in the world, but I wasn't in Moscow very long on this trip, and I just wanted to have have a little piece before I left. Although I have to say, surprisingly. Very good. I was actually a little apprehensive it was going to be a little stale. Um, and no matter how creamy cake is, a little bit stale isn't good. This is very, very good. Um, it's a very rich— um, because it has so many thin, tiny layers of cream, there's a lot of cream in it, which keeps it moist and makes it very rich. I think this is the perfect size too. It looked like a little bit of a cheap size, a little bit of a It looked like a little bit of a stingy slice to me, but I think it's a perfect size because it's just so rich and so full of flavor and cream. I don't know. This is the type of thing you should have once while you're in Russia after dinner or just standalone with a cup of coffee. Enjoy.
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