Growing up in Los Angeles, Hannah Ziskin’s favorite cake was the Swedish princess cake. Her family — not Swedish at all, she notes — got it from the Viktor Benes Bakery inside Gelson’s Market. “That ...

"After nearly a century of demure European popularity", the Swedish princess cake (prinsesstårta) is suddenly "everywhere", said The Guardian. The "dome-shaped" cake – made of neat, alternating layers ...