9 hungarian cake recipes

A traditional Hungarian birthday cake from my grandmother.

Hungarian baked chicken with paprika-browned breasts layered over cabbage, sliced apples, and onions, finished with melted Swiss cheese. Sweet, savory, and hearty.

Hungarian chocolate cream bars stack a cocoa sponge cake, rum-spiked mocha cream filling, and glossy chocolate glaze into decadent cafe-style squares. Dobos cake inspired and freezer-friendly.

Budapest tea bread bundt cake with a swirled cinnamon, cocoa, raisin, and walnut filling. A Hungarian-inspired sour cream coffee cake for tea time or brunch.

New Year's Eve clock cake: three airy white cake layers stacked with silky chocolate cream filling, wrapped in rich Hungarian chocolate frosting and decorated to look like a clock striking midnight.

A classic Hungarian Dobos torte with thin sponge cake layers filled with chocolate coffee buttercream and glazed in melted semi-sweet chocolate. An impressive European pastry for special occasions.

Rigo Jancsi, the classic Hungarian chocolate cake with two layers of rich sponge filled with rum-spiked chocolate cream and topped with a glossy chocolate glaze. An elegant European pastry.

New Year's Eve chocolate clock cake stacks three layers of egg-white sponge with stovetop chocolate cream filling and Hungarian chocolate frosting, then iced with a clock face for the midnight countdown.

Vienna crescents are flaky yeast-leavened butter cookies filled with sweet pecan meringue and shaped into delicate crescents. A traditional Christmas cookie from Austrian and Hungarian baking.