Sweet dishes

This wonderful dessert proves that simplicity is the mother of genius.

Large, firm and sour apples are ideal for this dessert. The "šlafrok" (literally meaning bathrobe) they are wrapped in is made of rarely dough and gives a special crunchiness to this well-known dessert.

Here is a recipe for the well-known boiled štrukli – rich in flavour, stuffed with a mixture of fresh cheese and covered in butter-fried breadcrumbs.

What to say about the pastry that pretty much everyone in Zagreb tasted? Your elders may have baked it, or maybe your neighbours. Whichever way, it is a part of our tradition.

If someone were to tell you that pancakes were "a kind of thin dough made from a sweet mixture that is fried in a pan", you would probably think to yourself that everyone knows what pancakes are!

Named after pepper, a spice that was very expensive and rare in the past, paprenjaci are an indigenous Croatian as well as Zagreb pastry, as described by August Šenoa in his renowned novel "Zlatarevo zlato".

As much as we like to think of them as ours, šnenokle (or paradižet as it is known in Dalmatia) are originally called Schneenockerln and are an Austrian recipe that has spread far and wide from the borders of its homeland due to how easy it is to make and how rich its flavour is.

Isn't it about time that you surprised all of the neighbours who have, for years, been brining you vanilla half-moons for the holidays?

The first kremšnita (cremeschnitte) was made in a pastry shop in Budapest for Sissi, Queen of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Since then, different varieties of this famous cake have been made.

Pancakes truly are great – we almost always have the necessary ingredients ready at home and kids absolutely love them.