Sans rival

Sans rival
	Sans rival made with pili nut
Course	Dessert
Place of origin	The Philippines
Region or state	Dumaguete, Negros Oriental
Main ingredients	Meringue, buttercream, cashews
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Sans rival is a Filipino dessert cake made of layers of buttercream, meringue and chopped cashews. Its name means "unrivaled" in French. The cake may be decorated, left plain, or garnished with pistachios.

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The cake's origins are disputed. One source claims the recipe has its roots in the French dacquoise,^[1] while Lucy Torres-Gomez, writing in The Philippine Star, claims that the cake is descended from the tarta imperial rusa, the Spanish adaption of a Russian cake which was popular with the Russian Imperial Family.^[2]

A similar, smaller version of this recipe is called a silvana.

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