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Sweet pastries and desserts

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Sweet pastries and desserts

Tender Cottage Cheese Bake

A cottage cheese bake is a recipe in the "healthy baking" category! It comes out very tender and delicious, and berries or dried fruit give it a "twist" ;-) Ingredients gvina levana - 750 g eggs - 3…

Baked Curd Cheese Sufganiyot

Of course, this is not a recipe for classic sufganiyot—it is more like curd cheese muffins. But if you are looking for a lighter recipe with only a little oil, this is the perfect option :) You will…

American Doughnuts

American doughnuts—delicious and beautifully decorated—have become firmly established in Hanukkah cuisine and are now one of the symbols of the holiday, alongside classic sufganiyot and dreidel spinn…

"Uga Kushit" — Israeli Chocolate Cake

"Uga Kushit" is that unique chocolate cake loved by every single child, without which no children's party in Israel is complete. Through careful family taste-testing, we have found what we consider t…

Stollen

For our family's "Mazel Tov," I decided to bake something new and not overly sweet. I found a recipe for stollen and baked it yesterday... and it is so delicious! The recipe may seem complicated, but…

Hot Chocolate with Cognac

Winter is coming around again—and with it, time to add to our collection of hot chocolate recipes! After all, what could be more pleasant than a cup of fragrant hot chocolate on a chilly, rainy day?…

Brownies with Farmer's Cheese and Cherries

Brownies with curd cheese and cherries—a tender, moist, intensely chocolatey cake! Perfect for Shavuot or a dairy meal on any other occasion. Ingredients: wheat flour - 150 g curd cheese (soft) - 300…

Versatile Loaf Cake

The "Recipe in an Hour" series by professional pastry chef Maryana Geller! Today we're making a loaf cake. But not just any loaf cake—a super-versatile loaf cake! A cake whose ingredients won't send…

Pastry Cream

Pastry cream isn't as intimidating as it seems :). It's actually quite simple, and very delicious! For filling éclairs, softening the layers of Napoleon cake, and other joys of life. Here's the recip…