The New Orleans icon Doberge Cake is more than a layered dessert.

Beignets, Mardi Gras king cake, bananas fosters, and more are typical New Orleans desserts.

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Each person who eats doberge cake has a different interpretation.

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Some define it as a dessert with yellow cake layers, chocolate pudding filling, and ganache.

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Others see a lemon layer cake with a bright yellow frosting.

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For some Louisianans, it's a cake with lemon and chocolate flavors divided down the middle for a wonderful half-and-half delight.

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These are all doberge cakes since they share DNA with Beulah Ledner's early 1900s 6-layer cake.

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Her Old World cake with New World adaptations revolutionized New Orleans baking.

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