45 recipes in this category
Classic cakes, puddings, and sweet treats made from scratch with timeless techniques.
A flourless no-bake torte of boiled egg yolks, ground almonds, and dark chocolate, filled with Italian meringue and almond cream, glazed with chocolate.
Rich, buttery biscuits shaped through a cookie press, packed with roasted ground hazelnuts and vanilla.
Crisp Central European confections of Swiss meringue shaped into crescents, coated in ground almonds, oven-dried until white and firm.
A silky, chilled cherry mousse set with agar-agar and lightened with whipped cream — a refined dessert from the early 20th century home kitchen.
Sliced ripe figs and dates macerated in lemon juice and sugar, piled into a bowl and covered with sweetened whipped cream and whole walnuts.
A slow-cooked Central European confection made with potato starch, bergamot essence, lemon, and whole almonds.
Delicate Central European sandwich cookies — tender shortbread rounds filled with apricot or melon jam, rolled in vanilla powdered sugar.
Cloud-light poached meringue dumplings served cold in a silky vanilla custard — the beloved Central European šnenokle, made the old-fashioned way.
A rich chilled cream of apricot marmalade, egg yolks, sugar, and gelatin, set in a mould and served unmoulded with whipped cream.