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Desserts & Cakes

78 recipes in this category

Classic cakes, puddings, and sweet treats made from scratch with timeless techniques.

A domed steamed pudding on a glass plate served alongside a bowl of fresh strawberries in wild strawberry juice
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Steamed Pudding with Sour Cream and Strawberries

A rich steamed almond pudding lightened with egg whites and served flambéed with rum, paired with wild strawberry juice poured over fresh strawberries.

Total time: 105 min
Servings: 8
Apricot sheet pie cut into squares on a large baking tray, custard cream set and golden, dusted with vanilla sugar.
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Apricot Sheet Pie with Custard Cream

Yeast dough sheet pie topped with fresh apricots and a rich custard of cream, egg yolks, and ground almonds — a classic Central European summer bake.

Total time: 135 min
Servings: 20–24 pieces
Deep-fried golden noodle nests filled with yellow custard, dusted with fine sugar.
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Golden Cream Noodle Nests

A brilliant and economical vintage dessert: crispy homemade noodle 'nests' filled with a thick semolina custard and deep-fried to perfection.

Total time: 60 min
Servings: 12–14 pieces
A golden-brown baked meringue topping over a rich apple base in a vintage ceramic baking dish.
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Velvet Apple & Meringue Gratin

A decadent vintage dessert featuring apples slow-cooked in a butter-sugar syrup, topped with a cloud of lemon-scented meringue.

Total time: 45 min
Servings: 4-6
Crispy breaded rice cakes topped with finely grated chocolate, served on a shallow vintage dish.
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Golden Rice Donuts with Vanilla

A delicate vintage dessert featuring creamy vanilla-infused rice pudding, breaded and fried until golden, then finished with grated chocolate.

Total time: 90 min
Servings: 6
Deep-fried cherry clusters held by their stems, dusted with vanilla sugar on a vintage plate.
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Cherries in a Bathrobe

Golden, crispy fried bunches of whole cherries encased in a light, fluffy egg-white batter. A whimsical early 20th-century dessert.

Total time: 35 min
Servings: 4–6
A rustic ceramic baking dish filled with golden-brown rolled pancakes layered with orange apricot jam.
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Baked Apricot and Rice Trumpet Pancakes

Delicate pancakes filled with creamy rice porridge and layered with rich apricot marmalade, baked in a sweet milk custard.

Total time: 75 min
Servings: 6
Golden sour cream walnut rolls on a dark oak board, dusted with vanilla sugar, natural light from the left
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Sour Cream Walnut Rolls

Tender yeast rolls enriched with sour cream and egg yolks, filled with a sweet walnut paste. A rich Central European pastry.

Total time: 75 min
Servings: 24 small rolls
Soft yeasted dumplings with sour cherries on a warm white porcelain plate, drizzled with melted butter and dusted with cinnamon sugar, natural light from the left
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Yeasted Dumplings with Sour Cherries

Soft yeasted dumplings filled with pitted sour cherries, boiled and served with melted butter, cinnamon, and sugar.

Total time: 110 min
Servings: 12–15 dumplings