National Coconut Torte Day

National Coconut Torte Day is celebrated on March 13 every year. It is a day to celebrate Coconut Cake. Torte is a delicious layered dessert, topped with fruit and cream. You can understand coconut Torte is a dessert with many layers of cream topped with coconut. So, National Coconut Torte Day is a day to enjoy your favorite delicious coconut cake with friends and family members.

History of National Coconut Torte Day

“Torte” is the German word for cake and it is a type of cake that uses peanuts as the main dry ingredient instead of flour. The torte is usually made with several layers and topped with whipped cream, buttercream or jam.

The first torte was called the Linzer Torte, which was made from a pastry with an almond shell and red grape jelly filling. Be famous at Linz, Austria, it considered as the oldest known cake in the world, originally believed to have started in the 1600s from the Vienna Stadt und Landesbibliothek.

A recipe book that includes many recipes from the most famous chefs and bakeries of the time. Today, there are many varieties of tortes produced by bakeries everywhere, including the delicious coconut bread.

On the other hand, coconuts may have been around a lot longer than people think, having originally been traded by Arab traders from India to East Africa nearly 2,000 years ago.

These merchants who introduced and brought coconuts to Europeans during the Asian Silk Road, are called the coconut the "Pharaoh's Nut" in the 13th century. It didn't have a name until the 16th century because of its resemblance to the Portuguese word cocuruto, meaning "crown of the head", because it resembles a person's skull.

From then until the 19th century, many people used coconut for decoration and food, believing it to have miraculous healing powers, which is probably why they decided to include it in desserts. .

The idea of ​​a coconut cake appeared in the 1920s and was served at women's gatherings, and from there, people started experimenting with coconut, and thus eventually created coconut cake.

Interesting Facts on National Coconut Torte Day

• A coconut tree can grow up to 90 feet long.
• The coconut has a different crust on top of the brown one when it's on the tree. It is called “coir” and is extracted before shipping the coconut.
• After drying, the fleshy part of the coconut, it is called "coconut".
• There are 280 calories per cup of coconut.
• Makapuno, grown in the Philippines, is the most expensive coconut.
• Coconut can float in water.
• Coconut oil become popular until the 1960s.
• Whenever there was a shortage of saline during World War II, wounded soldiers were given plasma infusion with coconut water.
• Smashing a coconut in Hindu mythology symbolizes getting rid of the ego.
• Coconut trees can grow up to almost 100 feet long!
• Some of the most versatile recipes are coconut recipes. Coconut has a place on your menu, be it savory or sweet.
• Coir (coir) is used to make all sorts of items, from ropes to brushes to mattress fillers.
• In a year, mature palm trees will produce 75 or more coconuts.
• A 1944 report explains how the Japanese hollowed out coconuts and explosives.
• India, Philippines and Indonesia are the main coconut producers.
• Coconut cream is one of the most essential ingredients of Pina Colada.
• Coconut oil is great for cooking but is also used in the home for dozens of purposes.

How to celebrate National Coconut Torte Day

Naturally, we love coconuts in our kitchen. Except the baked dishes, coconut enhance a flavor to our dishes and is a perfect substitute for other oils and fats because MCTs (a compound) are not absorbed as fat in the diet.

Celebrate National Coconut Torte Day! You can conveniently make delicious desserts for yourself and your family with many recipes online. If you don't feel like baking, go to the nearest bakery and see if they have a cake for you or maybe make one and enjoy the taste of coconut cake with your family members and friends.

Tell your friends and family today to enjoy a delicious almond coconut cake and share your experience on social media using hashtags #NationalCoconutTorteDay and # CoconutTorteDay, and have fun with the coconuts. Coconut Torte can create an easy and enjoyable experience for you and your family.