Spritz cookies or Spritzgebäck is a type of German Christmas biscuits made with flour, sugar, butter, vanilla and eggs. These simple cookies can be...
Breads, buns & biscuits
Őznyelv – Deer’s tongue
Rest assured, neither Bambi nor his relatives fell prey to this recipe. Őznyelv is an old-school confection that was probably named after its form...
Cheese scones
Cheese scones are the most popular pogácsa in Hungary. Pogácsa is a simple and delicious snack food, which is generally one of the first things to...
Borsos kalács – Pepper buns
The hometown of borsos kalács is Szeremle, a village in Bács-Kiskun county that lies south-west to Baja, by the river Sugovica. Agriculture plays an...
Plum jam bundt cake
There’s probably few people who haven’t heard of bundt cakes. The distinctive ring shaped bundt cake derives from a European brioche-like cake...
Lightning fast cocoa snails
The dough of these rolls is yeast free, requiring neither folding nor proofing. Cottage cheese is the key element, it makes the snails butter-soft....
Sour cream crescents
Besides bread rolls crescents are the most popular bakery products in Hungary. The number of crescent types is infinite, they can be varied in many...
Kaiser rolls – Császárzsemle
Kaiser roll is a crusty round bread roll, originally from Austria, but due to those 51 years our country spent in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, this...
Cocoa snails – Kakaós csiga
10th January 1908 - this is the day when the first cocoa snails were born. A baker in Göd (a little town in the Danube bend, near Budapest)...
Kossuth-kifli – Walnut half moon cookies
According to the legend, the Hungarian politician, Lajos Kossuth generally stayed in the Hotel Zöldfa (Green tree) when he arrived to Bratislava in...
Lángos, the Hungarian street food
Lángos, this traditional Hungarian street food, is slowly conquering the whole world, the number of its fans is increasing day by day. Lángos...
Frankfurter rolls
Frankfurter rolls, as a member of pigs in a blanket type foods, are very popular in Hungary. Stores supply a wide range of virsli (that's how we...
Ham scones
Leftover Easter ham usually gives plenty to think about, its using up usually puts your creativity to the test. This year I ground the leftover...
Karcagi Ferdinánd – sweet vanilla-butter snails from Eastern Hungary
Karcagi Ferdinánd - this is the name of these soft vanilla-butter snails that stick together into a round cake form during baking. It's wrapped in...
Chocolate-hazelnut sweet braided bread
Creating the recipe of the perfect chocolate sweet bread is one of those projects I have been working on for a few years. With several attempts...
Vízen kullogó
Vízen kullogó can be called the Hungarian brioche, which is, however, undoubtedly much better than the French version. It's an old-time folk pastry...
Molnárka
Making bakery products at home always reminds me of the good old days. Today's mass production just verifies my opinion that (almost) everything was...
Wasp nest – Darázsfészek
Fortunately, this wasp nest has nothing to do with those angry insects, darázsfészek in this case means yeast pastry rolls with creamed butter...
Hungarian leaf fat pastry – Hájas tészta
Humans have been eating fats for hundreds of thousands of years, but due to the fear of high cholesterol, animal fats were demonized a few decades...
Pozsony crescents – Pozsonyi kifli
Pozsony is the Hungarian name for Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, the hometown of these amazing crescents. Pozsony crescents can be considered...
Popular recipes
This is what Hungarian túró looks like
You often ask me what kind of cottage cheese (or curd cheese or farmer's cheese - call it what you want) I use in the recipes. In Hungary the store-bought cottage cheese is dry and crumbly as you can see in the picture. So if a recipe calls for túró, I mean this type. If you can't obtain túró, you can try to make your own from whole milk. Click on the link below.
Metric system vs cup
In Hungary metric units are in use, all the recipes on this website are based on this system, so a kitchen scale is necessary. Since I’m not familiar with cup as a measurement unit, I convert grams to cups by using an online converter. The values in brackets, therefore, are only approximate volumes, so, please, double-check them before you start cooking.