 But other well-known European confections are also tortes, such as the French Gâteau St. Honoré.In Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, and Russia cakes are usually called tortes without differentiating between "cake" and "torte".In Polish, as an example, the word "torte" is translated into Polish as "tort", but "tort" can be also translated as "layer cake" or "cream cake".