Chapter V · 20 recipes
Cakes & Desserts
Medovik, Prague cake, Black Prince, layered custard cake, pastries and cookies.
“Black Prince” Cake
A plain and a chocolate layer, broken up and mixed with a sour cream and walnut cream, piled up under a glaze.
“Jelly” Cake
Cubes of sponge and coloured jelly set in a sour cream and gelatine cream.
“Monastery Hut” Cake
Cherry-filled tubes of sour cream pastry with a sour cream cream.
“Prague” Sponge with Prunes and Nuts
A chocolate sponge filled with its own crumb mixed with sour cream, prunes and nuts.
“Tropicanka” Cake
Lattice layers of choux pastry, a cooked cream with butter, fruit and jelly.
Baked Apples in Pastry
Halves of small apples with sugar and cinnamon, baked in a sour cream pastry.
Carrot Cake
Three layers with grated carrot, filled with sour cream whipped with sugar.
Chocolate Salami
Biscuits and toasted nuts in a chocolate mixture of butter, cocoa, sugar and egg, rolled into logs.
Choux Pastries
Choux buns filled with a butter cream made on a milk pudding, the tops dipped in chocolate glaze.
Cottage Cheese “Goose Feet” Cookies
Cottage cheese cookies: rounds of dough folded into quarters and rolled in sugar.
Flan (Crème Caramel)
Egg custard on milk under caramel, baked in a cast-iron pot in a water bath or cooked in a pressure cooker.
Honey Cake (Medovik)
Layered honey cake with sour cream filling; the dough is made over hot water.
Napoleon Cake
Five thin layers of sour cream pastry with a cooked custard cream, topped with crumbs from a sixth.
Prague Cake
A chocolate cake made with condensed milk, filled with a cream of cooked custard and butter with cocoa.
Prune Cookies in Chocolate Glaze
Crescents of a dough made with boiled egg yolks, filled with prunes, glazed with chocolate and rolled in lemon wafer crumbs.
Royal Cake
Four sour cream layers, with poppy seeds, walnuts, raisins and prunes, filled with a sour cream cream.
Sponge Cake with Orange Curd Cream
A sponge soaked in brandy and orange juice, under a cottage cheese cream with banana and orange, topped with fruit and jelly.
Sponge Roll with Cream and Fruit
A sponge roll soaked in syrup and filled with butter cream and finely chopped fruit.
Starch Shortbread (Korzhiki)
Crumbly shortbread rounds made with starch, butter and sour cream.
Zebra Cake
A plain and a chocolate batter made with mayonnaise and sour cream, poured into the pan in turns to make stripes.