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CHOCOLATE COOKIE SALAMI
EAST EUROPEANDESSERTEASY

CHOCOLATE COOKIE SALAMI

This old-fashioned chocolate cookie salami is a simple no-bake dessert made by folding crushed cookies and nuts into a rich cocoa-butter mixture, then shaping it into a log and chilling until firm enough to slice.

25 MIN10 SERVEASY
RAISIN WALNUT RUSKS
RUSSIANSNACKEASY

RAISIN WALNUT RUSKS

These Eastern European-style rusks are made from a soft butter-and-sour-cream dough with raisins and walnuts. The dough is baked in small logs, sliced while lightly browned, then returned to the oven to dry into crisp rusks.

65 MIN8 SERVEASY
CHOCOLATE CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA CAKE
EASTERN EUROPEANCAKE

CHOCOLATE CHILDHOOD NOSTALGIA CAKE

This nostalgic chocolate layer cake combines a moist cocoa-and-coffee chocolate cake base with classic condensed-milk cocoa buttercream, a thin apricot jam layer, and a dark chocolate glaze. The flavor is inspired by Eastern European and late Soviet-era bakery-style chocolate cakes, with the apricot-chocolate contrast and smooth buttercream finish often associated with Prague-style cakes.

145 MIN12 SERVMEDIUM

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