List of Russian desserts

List of Russian Desserts

Russian cuisine is a collection of the different cooking traditions of the Russian people. The cuisine is diverse, with Northern and Eastern European, Caucasian, Central Asian, Siberian, and East Asian influences. Russian cuisine derives its rich and varied character from the vast and multi-ethnic expanse of Russia. This article provides a list of some of the most popular and traditional Russian desserts.

Blini

Blini are thin pancakes traditionally made from wheat or buckwheat flour. They are often served with a variety of fillings and toppings, including jam, fruit, sour cream, and caviar.

Medovik

Medovik is a layered honey cake that is a popular dessert in Russia. The cake is made from layers of honey dough that are filled with sweetened condensed milk and cream.

Pryanik

Pryanik is a type of Russian gingerbread that is often filled with jam or condensed milk. The dough is typically flavored with honey and spices, and the finished cookies are often decorated with icing or glaze.

Syrniki

Syrniki are fried quark pancakes, garnished with sour cream, varenye, jam, honey or apple sauce. The cheese mixture may contain raisins for extra flavour.

Zefir

Zefir is a type of soft confectionery made by whipping fruit and berry purée with sugar and egg whites with subsequent addition of a gelling agent like pectin, carrageenan, agar or gelatine.

Vatrushka

Vatrushka is a kind of bun, or pastry with a filling of quark in the middle. It can be either sweet or savory, but the most common version is sweet, with added sugar and vanilla.

Tula Gingerbread

Tula Gingerbread is a type of printed gingerbread from the city of Tula, the most famous kind of Russian gingerbreads. Usually, Tula gingerbread looks like a rectangular tile or a flat figure. Modern Tula gingerbreads usually contain jam or condensed milk, while old-styled Tula gingerbread is filled with honey.

Russian Tea Cake

Russian Tea Cake is a kind of pastry, often eaten around Christmas in the United States. Despite the name, these sweet and buttery cookies are not from Russia, but the name likely comes from the Russian tea-drinking custom.

Kisel

Kisel is a viscous fruit dish, popular in Russia and Ukraine, recognizable as a type of thickened juice. It is a dessert that has been known since the ancient times. The classical recipe advises to extract juice from berries, add sugar, boil it, add diluted potato starch, and let it cool.

Pastila

Pastila is a traditional Russian fruit confectionery (pâte de fruits). It has been described as "small squares of pressed fruit paste" and "light, airy puffs with a delicate apple flavor".

Chak-chak

Chak-chak is a Tatar sweet dessert, made from dough balls stuck together with honey, popular in Russia and other post-Soviet countries. The dough is cut into small pieces and then fried in oil. Afterwards, the pieces are arranged into a shape, and hot honey is poured over them.

Sushki

Sushki are traditional Eastern European small, crunchy, mildly sweet bread rings. The dough is rolled out, cut into strips, twisted, and then formed into rings and baked. The result is a hard, dry biscuit that is typically eaten with tea.

Templates

This is a non-exhaustive food and drink related list.

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