Torta Osimhen

01 / ABOUT THE DISH

About the dish

Torta Osimhen is a decadent chocolate cake created in honor of Napoli (football club) striker Viktor Osimhen. In a city that lives and dies for good food and its football team, pastry chefs Salvatore and Giuseppe Mellone of the Neapolitan pasticceria Fresco Forno decided to celebrate the spectacular Nigerian player by conceiving a special cake made of three layers of chocolate sponge and two layers of chocolate mousse mixed with salted caramel. The cake is glazed with dark chocolate and sprinkled with crushed cookies, meant to represent the footballer's recognizable hair. Torta Osimhen is completed with an edible decorative wafer "mask", an iconic part of Osimhen's playing gear. Soon after it was introduced, torta Osimhen became a huge hit, not only among Napoli fans but with local and foreign cake connoisseurs (Viktor Osimhen himself tried this delicious dessert and gave it his approval), prompting other Neapolitan pasticcerias to make their own version of the original.