Pecan Torte Fun Facts

The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and pecan torte fun facts. Because of this, as we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know. We have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”

For today’s Did You Know fun facts we will look at Pecan Torte fun facts.

The Facts: A torte is a rich, usually multilayered, cake that is filled with whipped cream, butter creams, mousses, jams, or fruits.

So what’s the difference between a torte and a cake? For starters, tortes are denser, shorter and wider than cakes, and often multi-layered.
Tortes are also made without the leaveners we’re used to in baking, namely baking powder or soda. Instead, they get their airiness from whipped eggs that are light and fluffy.
Tortes are commonly baked in a spring form pan.
To confuse things a little, torte actually means “cake” in German and Hungarian.
August 22nd is National Pecan Torte Day.
Pecans are the state tree of Texas
The largest pecan pie weighed in at 41,586 lb. and measured 50 ft in diameter.

Pecan Torte Facts We Missed

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Reference: Wikipedia: Fun Facts about Pecan Tortes.

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By Richard Myrick|2017-08-22T09:01:51-04:00Aug 22, 2013|Food Facts|

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Richard Myrick is an architect by degree (Lawrence Technological University, Southfield, Michigan) who began his career in real estate development and architectural planning. In September of 2010 he created Mobile Cuisine Magazine to fill an information void he found when he began researching how to start a mobile hotdog cart in Chicago. Richard found that there was no central repository of mobile street food information anywhere on the internet, and with that, the idea for MCM was born. Richard also wrote the "Running a Food Truck for Dummies" available in bookstores everywhere and Amazon. You can reach out to Richard by email at: [email protected].