Category: Baking
Đul-pita, or ružice – one of the most charmingly named sweet treats from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Đul means roses, a word derived from the Turkish word for roses…
An incredibly easy and delicious layered apple cake without egg or dairy – another one of the many incredibly inventive dishes made for periods of fasting in the…
Milibrod is a type of sweet yeasted bread that in the Balkans is typically eaten for Easter. The name “milibrod” I suppose comes from the German milchbrot, though…
Potica is a Slovenian light brioche roll made with sweet or savoury fillings, with walnut potica being perhaps the most well-known and loved. It is considered one of…
“Pita” is a staple of any Balkan home and is a broad term for the Balkan family “leaf pastry” layered or rolled with any number of savoury or…
These are beautiful vanilla, walnut, lemon cookies, sandwiched together with apricot jam and drowned in icing sugar. They are sort of the Balkan Linzer cookie. There is a…
This is a very traditional flat bread common over all parts of the Balkans ruled by the Ottoman Empire – essentially the Balkan pita bread. There are very…