33 Delicious Croatian Desserts

These Croatian cakes, cookies, pastries, pies and other sweets are lovingly made, using recipes handed down from generation to generation.

Creamy? With flaky pastry? Chocolatey? There’s a whole range of Croatian cakes to satisfy your sweet tooth.

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Kuglof (Bundt cake)

Shaped like a large doughnut, with a hole in the middle, this yeast-based cake is a classic Christmas dessert in Croatia.

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Vanilla custard cake is a delicious sweet made of puff pastry and a whipped egg cream filling, dusted with icing sugar on top.

Kremsnita (Vanilla custard cake)

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Madarica (Layered chocolate torte)

There are many different variations. You can find it layered with jam, white chocolate and other fillings, and there may be more layers too.

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Skradin’s cake (Chocolate cake)

Its main ingredients are ground walnuts, rose brandy, honey, lemons and oranges. And then the cake is smothered in chocolatey goodness.

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Imotski cake (Almond lattice cake)

This almond cake has a thin latticed pie crust on top with an almond, orange, lemon zest and cinnamon filling.

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Hrapocusa  (Cake of Brac)

The bottom layer of this Croatian walnut cake is a dense sponge cake made of egg yolks, some egg whites, flour, loads of walnuts and maybe lemon zest.

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