How to pronounce Princess cake

Princess cake is written Prinsesstårta where it comes from. In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /prɪnˈsɛ̂sːˌtoːʈa/. In plain English letters that is prin-SESS-tor-tah, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. There is no recording by a native speaker yet, so use the spelling and the IPA.

What is Princess cake?

Princess cake is a dessert of Sweden. People usually eat it at teatime and on festive days. Its main ingredients are wheat & flour, egg, dairy & cheese and nuts & seeds. It tastes sweet and rich.

Where Princess cake comes from

Princess cake is one of 22 signature dishes of Sweden on this map.

• Köttbullar · Main dish · Sweden

  Köttbullar are small meatballs of minced beef and pork with onion, breadcrumbs soaked in milk, and white pepper, fried in butter and served with cream sauce, boiled or mashed potatoes, lingonberry jam and pickled cucumber.

• Kanelbulle · Dessert · Sweden

  The kanelbulle, Swedish cinnamon bun, is a yeasted wheat dough spiced with cardamom, rolled with a filling of butter, sugar and cinnamon, twisted into a knot or spiral, and sprinkled with pearl sugar.

• Jansson's temptation Janssons frestelse · Main dish · Sweden

  Jansson's temptation is a Swedish gratin of potatoes, onions, cream and Swedish 'anchovies', which are in fact spiced, pickled sprats.

• Gravlax gravad lax · Main dish · Scandinavia

  Gravlax means "buried salmon".

• Surströmming · Main dish · Ångermanland (High Coast)

  Surströmming means 'sour herring': small Baltic herring, called strömming in Swedish, lightly salted and left to ferment.

• Kroppkakor · Main dish · Öland, Småland, Blekinge and Gotland

  Kroppkakor are boiled potato dumplings about the size of a tennis ball, usually filled with salted pork and onion.

Food of Sweden

Dishes like Princess cake in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Princess cake:

• Frankfurter Kranz · Dessert · Frankfurt (Hesse), Germany

  The Frankfurter Kranz is a ring-shaped buttercream cake from Frankfurt.

• Mattentaart Geraardsbergse mattentaart · Dessert · East Flanders, Belgium

  Mattentaart is a tart from Geraardsbergen in East Flanders: puff pastry above and below a filling of matten, curds made from whole milk and buttermilk, mixed with eggs, sugar and almonds.

• Somlói galuska · Dessert · Budapest, Hungary

  Somlói galuska is one of the best-known Hungarian desserts: pieces of sponge cake served with chocolate sauce and whipped cream.

• Paris-Brest · Dessert · Paris, France

  The Paris-Brest is a ring-shaped cake made to honour the Paris–Brest–Paris bicycle race, and its round form is meant to look like a bicycle wheel.