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New Zealand cake
Louise cake
or
Louise slice
is a baked
New Zealand
sweet dish that consists of raspberry jam and coconut-flavoured
meringue
on a shortbread base.
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The
confection
's name may refer to the 1871 wedding of
Princess Louise
.
History
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It has been suggested that the cake was created to celebrate the wedding of
Princess Louise
(one of
Queen Victoria
’s daughters) in 1871.
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A recipe for Louise cake was shared in the
Otago Witness
newspaper in October 1927.
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In her 2022 bilingual cookbook
Wh?naukai: Feel-good baking to share aroha and feed hungry tummies,
Auckland baker and former
Whakaata M?ori
presenter, Naomi Toilalo, translated Louise cake into
te reo M?ori
as
Keke Rahipere Me Te Kokonati
(raspberry and coconut cake).
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Recipe
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The base of Louise cake is shortbread, made from eggs, sugar, butter and flour. The shortbread layer is topped with raspberry jam, followed by a layer of meringue with coconut mixed into it.
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Although not traditional, some bakers nowadays decorate the cake with raspberries, either fresh or crushed freeze-dried.
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Other modern variations on the recipe replace the layer of raspberry jam with plum or kiwifruit jam, stewed
rhubarb
or
lemon curd
.
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