Eastern European Dessert Recipes

Enjoy sweet treats native to Eastern Europe, from breads and pastries to cakes and tortes.
Czech Susenky Christmas Cookie (Vanocni Cukrovi)
Vanocni Cukrovi (Czech Susenky Christmas Cookies)
Quark kolache
Polish Sour Cream Kołaczki Dough
Kifle or Kilfice od Oraha
Balkan Kifle Walnut Crescent Cookies
Romanian salami cookie recipe
Salam de Biscuiti (Romanian Salami Cookie) Recipe
Polish Kołaczki Recipe
Cottage Cheese Kolacky Dough Pastry Recipe
Klara's traditional Croatian apple strudel recipe
Klara's Traditional Croatian Apple Strudel Recipe - Strudel od Jakuba
Chocolate bundt cake with chocolate glaze
Easy Chocolate Sauerkraut Cake
Christmas gingerbread cookies
Gingerbread Cookies - Czech Pernik na Figurky
Bulgarian Christmas jam filled cookies resting on a counter
Maslenki (Bulgarian Christmas Jam-Filled Cookie) Recipe
Curd cheese strudel in baking tin with piece on server
Sweet Cheese Strudel Filling Recipe
Poppy swiss roll slices
Czech Poppy Seed Sweet Roll (Kolace) Filling
Hazelnut Cream Torte
Austro-Hungarian Hazelnut Cream Torte Recipe
Lithuanian Tree Cake or Sakotis
How a Lithuanian Tree Cake (Raguolis or Sakotis) Is Made
Lemon and Yellow Squash Quick Bread
Lemon and Yellow Squash Quick Bread
Bread pudding
Cream Cheese Bread Pudding
Close-up of Served Black Coffee With Gibanica Cake
Slovenian Prekmurska Gibanica Recipe
Mandarin orange bundt cake
Mandarin Orange Bundt Cake
Ukrainian Christmas cake perekladanets recipe
Perekladanets (Ukrainian Christmas Cake) Recipe
Balkan tulumbe pastries
Balkan Tulumbe Pastries Recipe
Beat the egg yolks
How to Freeze Leftover Egg Yolks
Pear cake with ice cream
Quick Pear Streusel Coffee Cake
Mixed berry sauce (coulis) recipe
Easy Mixed Berry Dessert Sauce
Pear Butter
Traditional Pear Butter
Brandied Fruit
Brandied Fruit
Almond Bundt Cake with Almond Glaze
Easy Almond Bundt Cake Recipe With Almond-Flavored Icing
Slice of Polish-American cheesecake
Polish-American-Style Cheesecake (Sernik Philadelphia)
twice baked cookies close up
Biscotti: Twice-Baked Cookies
Royal Icing in a bowl alongside decorated gingerbread house cookies
Royal Icing Recipe for a Gingerbread House
Baked gingerbread house pieces ready to be assembled
Sturdy Gingerbread House Dough
A piece of quark strudel with cranberries
Slovak Cottage Cheese Rolls - Tvarohova Strudla
Pashka (quark dessert, Poland) with crystallised orange zest
Eastern European Molded Cheese Easter Dessert (Paska / Paskha) Recipe
Pastries made with Blitz puff pastry
Fast Puff Pastry Recipe
Traditional apple butter recipe
Traditional Apple Butter Spread Recipe
Homemade fritters with sugar
Croatian Fritters (Fritule)
Still life of Czech Raspberry bublanina cake
Czechoslovakian Bublanina Dessert
Stacks of Polish lemon sandwich tea cookies on a marble serving board
Polish Lemon Sandwich Tea Cookies (Cytrynowe Ciasteczka)
Polish Carpathian Mountain Cream Cake (Karpatka)
Polish Carpathian Mountain Cream Cake (Karpatka)
Mandelbrot - almond biscuits
Jewish Mandelbrot
Croatian honeybread cookies recipe
Croatian Honeybread Cookies (Licitars)
Peach soup
Hungarian Cold Peach Soup
Applesauce crumb cake
Applesauce Crumb Cake
Jewish Hamantaschen Cookies
Jewish Hamantaschen Cookies
Easy pear streusel pie recipe
Canned Pear Streusel Pie
Czech Pirouette Cookies (Parizske Pecivo)
Czech Pirouette Cookies (Parizske Pecivo)
Rainbow Cookies
Rainbow Cookies Recipe
Coffee Crumb cake on white plate
Polish Placek z Kruszonka: Coffee Cake Recipe
filled walnut cookies
Walnut or Fruit-Filled Crescent Cookies (Roszke or Rosky)
Jewish Bow Tie Cookie or Egg Kichel
Jewish Bow Tie Cookies (Egg Kichel)
Aguonu Sausainiukai
Aguonu Sausainiukai: Lithuanian Poppy Seed Cookies
Cheese blintzes with berries
Blueberry Blintz Recipe
Dragon fruit frozen sorbet dessert recipe
Dragon Fruit Frozen Sorbet Recipe
Kremna rezina Slovenian vanilla and custard dessert, photographed at the Park Hotel, Bled in August 2006.
Serbian Meringue Slices (Sampita)
Easy Poured Fondant Icing Recipe
Banana Savarin
Romanian Rum Cake
Czech black and white cookies recipe
Czech Black-and-White Cookies Recipe
Paula Shoyer's Chocolate Meringue Cake
Chocolate Mousse Meringue Layer Cake Recipe
Beat together egg whites
How to Freeze Leftover Egg Whites
Babka Cake: What It Is and Baking It at Home
Charles slovak easter bread recipe
Slovak Easter Paska Bread
Lithuanian Spurgos
Lithuanian Doughnuts (Spurgos or Pampuskos)