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Desserts & Cakes

30 recipes in this category

Classic cakes, puddings, and sweet treats made from scratch with timeless techniques.

Vanilice sandwich cookies dusted in vanilla powdered sugar, arranged on a linen cloth
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Vanilice with Sour Cream

Delicate Central European sandwich cookies — tender shortbread rounds filled with apricot or melon jam, rolled in vanilla powdered sugar.

Total time: 45 min
Servings: ~40 sandwich cookies
Soft white meringue dumplings floating in pale yellow vanilla custard in a glass bowl
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Floating Islands the Central European Way

Cloud-light poached meringue dumplings served cold in a silky vanilla custard — the beloved Central European šnenokle, made the old-fashioned way.

Total time: 45 min
Servings: 6
A golden apricot cream unmoulded onto a glass plate, decorated with whipped cream and served chilled
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Apricot Cream

A rich chilled cream of apricot marmalade, egg yolks, sugar, and gelatin, set in a mould and served unmoulded with whipped cream.

Total time: 55 min
Servings: 6
A sponge cake with its top sliced off, filled with pale custard cream studded with candied fruit and raisins, topped with whipped cream
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Cake Filled with Fruit Cream

Hollowed sponge filled with rum-soaked candied peel, raisins, jelly candy, and gelatin custard folded with whipped cream. Topped with cream and candied fruit.

Total time: 335 min
Servings: 10
Sliced potato strudel dusted with vanilla sugar on a vintage ceramic plate
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Potato Strudel

Soufflé-light potato, egg yolk, and lemon-whipped whites folded into paper-thin hand-stretched strudel dough, an early 20th-century Central European

Total time: 100 min
Servings: 6
A glistening strawberry jelly unmoulded onto a glass bowl, served with whipped sour cream and biscuits
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Strawberry Jelly with Rum

A refreshing no-bake strawberry jelly set with gelatin and lightly flavoured with rum, served unmoulded with whipped sweetened sour cream and biscuits.

Total time: 35 min
Servings: 5
A domed steamed pudding on a glass plate served alongside a bowl of fresh strawberries in wild strawberry juice
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Steamed Pudding with Sour Cream and Strawberries

A rich steamed almond pudding lightened with egg whites and served flambéed with rum, paired with wild strawberry juice poured over fresh strawberries.

Total time: 105 min
Servings: 8
Apricot sheet pie cut into squares on a large baking tray, custard cream set and golden, dusted with vanilla sugar.
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Apricot Sheet Pie with Custard Cream

Yeast dough sheet pie topped with fresh apricots and a rich custard of cream, egg yolks, and ground almonds — a classic Central European summer bake.

Total time: 135 min
Servings: 20–24 pieces
Deep-fried golden noodle nests filled with yellow custard, dusted with fine sugar.
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Golden Cream Noodle Nests

A brilliant and economical vintage dessert: crispy homemade noodle 'nests' filled with a thick semolina custard and deep-fried to perfection.

Total time: 60 min
Servings: 12–14 pieces
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