

Week 130: Karpatka
Karpatka is a Polish cake with layers of puff pastry filled with a decadent raspberry pastry cream. Jump to the recipe! The cake was named by a group of students who noticed that the cake’s rough and textured structure resembled the Carpathian mountain range. I think it’s so fun that dusting the top of the cake with powdered sugar looks just like the mountain snow! This cake is also very similar to kremówka, a similar puff pastry dessert. However, kremówka uses flattened puff

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Week 129: Japanese Cheesecake
Japanese cheesecakes are also known as Japanese cotton cheesecake or jiggly cake. No matter the name, you will definitely be getting seconds of this fluffy cheesecake. Jump to the recipe! Japanese cheesecake was invented in the 1970s and was actually inspired by a German cheesecake called kasekuchen. I will definitely be trying to bake that soon! Japanese chefs adapted kasekuchen by reducing the fat and creating a lighter and more airy cheesecake instead. The cake was a hit a

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Week 128: Mokkapalat
Mokkapalat is a chocolate sheet cake topped with a delicious mocha frosting from Finland. Jump to the recipe! The recipe was first published in Sju sorters kakor, a Swedish cookbook, in 1945. It was later translated into Finnish. Although the original recipe called for chocolate, the Finnish translations replaced the chocolate with cocoa as it was cheaper. In Finnish Mokkapalt means a piece of suede. The treat gained popularity in the 1980s and was commonly served at parties

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