Whenever I walk to my grocery store to get food, I pass by this "cukraszda" or cake shop. It's tiny, with two tables inside. I never fail to look over my shoulder as I pass the frosted window, to get a glance at the shelves of cakes on show underneath the glass.
Just cakes. Nothing else. So simple and delicious. Pink cakes, chocolate ones enough to make your face pucker, some sprinkled with nuts, others with a layer of yellow jelly.
When asked what a "cukraszda" is called in America, I never know what to say. We don't seem to have just cake shops, because they would be crushed by Wal-Mart or some other hypermarket.
4 comments:
Cool - we have cake shops in London - but they often have a strong French touch - if they are cakes only...
Maria thinks that there is little to beat the "poppy seed cake" it seems to be a very traditional Hungarian cake - and has a layer of thick - chocolate-looking filling - but it turns ot not to be merely chocolate - but crushed poppy seeds...
I'm not that big a fan - but it's very different and there wasn't anything left of my slice when I was asked - last week!
SHR3
http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/ethnic-recipes/hungarian/poppy-seed-moon-cake.htm
looks like a cake thats popular from Russia - Poland Austria - Hungary etc
http://www.polandtrade.com.hk/img/makowiec.jpg
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