Chocotorta

The creation of the recipe is attributed to the advertising creative Marité Mabragaña, who around 1982 devised a joint campaign between two brands: Bagley's Chocolinas cookies and Mendicrim cream cheese, then owned by the Mendizábal company.^[1] Due to the ease and practicality of its preparation, the chocotorta became a success and over the years has come to be described as Argentina's most popular dessert and a cultural icon of the country, especially associated with birthday celebrations.^[2][3] In 2020, TasteAtlas listed chocotorta as the best dessert in the world.^[2][3] Despite its ubiquity in Argentine culture, the chocotorta is also known for the rejection it has provoked in several well-known figures of the local gastronomy, who claim that the simple preparation should not be considered a cake nor a representative of national confectionery.^[3][4] There is also a coconut biscuit version made with another Bagley's brand, Coquitas, thus known as "coquitorta".^[5]

• List of Argentine sweets and desserts