Sans rival

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.

Sans rival

Sans rival cross-section
Course	Dessert
Place of origin	Philippines
Main ingredients	Meringue, buttercream, cashews
Cookbook: Sans rival   Media: Sans rival

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 adaptation of a Russian cake that was popular with the Imperial family.[2]

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

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  A slice of sans rival