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Which Soviet-era cake sets a whipped agar-agar souffle between thin cake layers beneath a dark chocolate glaze?

Developed in 1978 by Vladimir Guralnik and his team at Moscow's Praga restaurant, it relies on agar-agar rather than gelatine because agar still sets after being whipped with sugar syrup boiled to around 117C, which would destroy gelatine.

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