Sweets and Cakes
| Name | Image | Region | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dobos torta Dobosh torte Dobos cake |
sponge cake layered with chocolate paste and glazed with caramel and nuts | ||
| Fánk Berliner, Bismarck Doughnuts |
round, sweet, fired taste, topped with lekvár | ||
| Flódni | Jewish-Hungarian | cake with 4 different fillings, poppyseed, walnut, apple and plum jam | |
| Linzer torta | a tart with criscross design of pastry strips on top | ||
| Rigó Jancsi | Cube-shaped sponge cake with dark chocolate glaze | ||
| Gesztenyepüré | cooked and mashed sweet chestnuts with sugar and rum, topped with whipped cream. | ||
| Bejgli | (cake roll eaten at Christmas and Easter. | ||
| Kürtőskalács | Stove cake or Chimney cake, cooked over an open fire—a Transylvanian specialty, famous as Hungary's oldest pastry | ||
| Csöröge | crispy, light Hungarian Angel Wing fry cookies a twisted thin fried cookie made of yeast doug, dusted with powdered sugar | ||
| Vaníliás kifli | vanilla croissant, small, crescent shaped biscuits | ||
| Babapiskóta Lady Finger |
thin, light, sweet delicate, crispy lady fingers | ||
| Rétes Strudel |
strudel | ||
| Kuglóf Kugelhupf |
Kuglóf cake, a traditional Austro-Hungarian coffee party cake | ||
| Lekváros Bukta or Bukta | a baked dessert filled with jam, túró or ground walnuts | ||
| Lekváros tekercs Swiss roll |
Rolled up soft sponge cake filled with jam | ||
| Lekvár | Thick Hungarian jam | ||
| Mézes krémes | Hungarian Honey Cake | ||
| Birsalma sajt Quince cheese |
(Quince cheese, or quince jelly made of quince fruits | ||
| Törökméz Nougat |
a sweet sticky white nougat paste cooked with sugar, eggwhites, honey, bits of walnuts, spread between two wafer sheets. | ||
| Halva, Transsylvanian sweet | sweet confection, made with sunflower seeds, of Turkish origin | ||
| Madártej | Floating island, a dessert made of milk custard with eggwhite dumplings floating on top | ||
| Túró Rudi | sweet quark cheese - called túró - filled chocolate bar | ||
| Somlói Galuska | Budapest/Fót | sponge cake with raisins, walnuts, served with rum, chocolate sauce and whipped cream | |
| Szaloncukor | flavoured candies which hang on the Christmas tree, eaten at Christmas |
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