Russian Sweet Treats and Baking Recipes

Blini / Pancakes | 'Chestnut' Biscuits / Pechenye | Choux Pastries filled with Coffee Bechamel | Easter Cake / Kulich | Easter Flower Bread | Honey and Sour Cream Cake | Lepeshki / Sour Cream Biscuits | Lotus Cakes | Natalya's Ladushki | Ponchiki / Russian Doughnuts | Poppy Seed Roll | Pryaniki - Russian Gingerbread | Oladi / Buttermilk Pikelets | Sochniki | Soft Cheese Doughnuts | Sour Cream Cake | Sweet Cheese Pikelets / Tvorozhniki | 'Sweet Sausage' Biscuits | Tvorog Biscuits | Tvorozhniki / Soft Sweet Cheese Pancakes | Uzbekistan Sweet Walnut Brittle | Vatrushki / Sweet Cheese Tartlets

As luck (or weather) would have it, there is something special about the Russian constitution. They seem to be able to indulge their famous sweet tooth without carrying any evidence of it around their middles!.

Perhaps it is the extreme temperatures that result in most of the carbohydrates being burnt off keeping warm or cool. No such luck for us Kiwis!

Russian cooking includes many sweet dough based recipes which are either baked in the oven or fried. These are cooked plain or with fillings of nuts, fruit or tvorog - a soft cheese similar to quark or ricotta.