There’s a Hungarian dessert with a name that always makes people smile: legényfogó süti, which literally means bachelor-catching cake. The idea is...
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Honey rolls
These honey rolls are a family favorite. They’re soft, sweet and filled with plum butter and crunchy walnuts. The dough is easy to make, and the...
Darunyak – Crane’s neck
Darunyak, translated as crane's neck, is a cherished Hungarian dessert that bears a striking resemblance to strudel but is notably easier to make....
Recipe of the notary’s wife – Jegyzőné receptje
The recipe of the notary's wife comes from a cookbook written by József Váncza, a pharmacist, who was the inventor of the first Hungarian baking...
Berliner cake
Berliner cake is an old-school pastry, which is only avaible in a few confectioneries countrywide. One of them is the Rigó Jancsi confectionery in...
Férfi szeszély – Men’s whim cake
If you have already made women's whim cake, it's time to try men's whim cake, too. Férfiszeszély is a quick and simple cake containing walnuts, rum...
Rugelach
There has been a debate over its origin, but one thing is for sure, rugelach is a light and flaky, crescent-shaped Jewish pastry usually made for...
Wafers with walnut brittle cream
The hometown of wafers known today is Vienna where the first official recipe was created by Joseph Manner in 1898. He laid the foundations for the...
Walnut-honey coffee cake
This walnut-honey coffee cake is light and fluffy and when it’s baking, it will make your house smell like fall. It has a rich taste due to the...
Walnut cake
This walnut cake was my grandmother's favourite dessert. She learned the recipe from a friend of hers in 1959 and she always made it at Christmas...
Csotros kalács
I first saw csotros kalács in Gasztroangyal, a Hungarian series presenting our country's regions and traditional foods. The recipe's original name...
Layered strudel cake – Százrétű rétes
Hundred layer strudel or prekmurska gibanica - even though it's a traditional Slovenian dessert, transborder Hungarians living in Slovenia...
Diós kosárka – Walnut filled shortcrust pastry cupcakes
Diós kosárka is a sort of cupcake made up of shortcrust pastry and walnut filling. These cupcakes used to be baked for weddings because they could...
Walnut sour cherry bread pudding
This bread pudding is actually the summer version of the well known mákos guba. It's similarly made with stale crescents soaked in vanilla custard....
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...
Rum-walnut-cocoa slices
It's only a few days now until Easter, and it's time to think up what to bake for the holiday. If you are in a hurry, and the thought of desserts...
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...
Golden walnut dumplings – Aranygaluska
Aranygaluska is a Hungarian Jewish dessert, generally baked for Purim. The name aranygaluska literally means “golden dumpling” and by the 1880s,...
Let’s make szaloncukor
Szaloncukor has been an essential element of the Hungarian Christmas since the 19th century (you can read about its story here). Nowadays every...
Flódni
As the saying goes if you want to eat good flódni, you'll have to visit Hungary. The homeland of flódni is Hungary, but nowadays it's also offered...
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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.