Amandine (dessert)

Amandine (Romanian: amandină) is a Romanian chocolate layered cake filled with chocolate, caramel and fondant cream. Almond cream is sometimes used.^[1] As most Romanian cakes, they can be cut and served in 1-serving miniature cakes or as a big cake.

Amandine

Type	Layer cake
Course	Dessert
Place of origin	Romania
Region or state	Eastern Europe
Main ingredients	Caramel/chocolate layers, chocolate with caramel and fondant cream

These cakes are among the most traditional "sweetshop" cakes in Romania. The original recipe has layers of chocolate sponge cake soaked in rum flavored caramel syrup. The cream filling is a combination of chocolate buttercream mixed with fondant. The assembled layers are glazed with a combination of fondant with chocolate and rum or rum essence, poured over the cake while still slightly liquid.^{[citation needed]}

These cakes also have a traditional decoration on top with a little bit of the cream and a diamond-shaped piece of thin chocolate.^[2]