Traditional Czech Sweets

Even in the dessert category we begin with dumplings. Sweet dumplings (made with dough, semolina or cottage cheese) are filled with fruit, sprinkled with poppy seeds, grated cottage cheese or nuts and dowsed in melted butter. If this has got the juices flowing, what about buns (buchtičky) filled with vanilla sauce, potato cones (bramborové šišky) sprinkled with fried breadcrumbs or pancakes (palačinky) with fruit or marmalade.

Apple strudel (jablečný závin) is just as good in the Czech Republic as it is in other countries, and you won’t find such good traditional doughnuts with poppy seed, jam or cottage cheese fillings anywhere else.