Mohr im Hemd

Mohr im Hemd is an Austrian dessert whose name is German for a Moor in a shirt. It is built from a chocolate pudding topped with whipped cream, and the dark pudding under white cream gives the dish its name. In its modern form it is usually made with breadcrumbs so that it sets into a solid mass that resembles a small lava cake or a miniature gugelhupf, and it is served with chocolate sauce and whipped cream. Older recipes were closer to a chocolate custard whose main ingredients were chocolate and eggs. The name has become controversial because of its racial connotations: in 2012 the human rights group SOS Mitmensch criticized it and proposed alternatives such as Kuchen mit Schlag, and the Duden dictionary now labels the word Mohr as often seen as discriminatory.