It is made of cookies (made from flour, butter, eggs and milk), filled with Peruvian blancmange, some pineapple sweet and in some cases peanuts, with cookies within its layers.

It is known as part of the culture of Lambayeque Region and nowadays the makers of the dessert are grouped in the King Kong and Typical desserts Producers Association of Lambayeque City.

The name of the recipe comes from the film King Kong, which was shown in the city Lambayeque during the 1930s.

The citizens compared the mold and size of the sweet with the figure of the big gorilla,[2] baptizing it since then with the name of King Kong.

[3] Nowadays there are many factories that specialize in making this sweet, the most recognized being the company San Roque and "Lambayeque fabrica de dulces", "Huerequeque", "Evocada", and "Tumbas Reales" among others.