smörgåstårta; Swedish sandwich cake
A Swedish dish consisting of layers of bread with savory fillings, decorated like a cake. The term is a direct loan from Swedish, used in Japanese to refer to this specific food.
In Sweden, smörgåstårta is often served at parties.
Borrowed from Swedish 'smörgåstårta', literally 'sandwich cake'. The Japanese form is a direct katakana transliteration of the English calque 'sandwich cake'.