Easy Eastern European Cake Recipes

This universal Czech cherry bubble cake, called Bublanina, varies with the season and the fruit that is available. It's a bit like a coffee cake in texture and is probably why it is sometimes served as a breakfast pastry.

This Hungarian sour cherry cake is a simple dessert made with the sour cherries Eastern Europeans love. This cake is sometimes eaten for breakfast and is similar to Czech bubble cake.

Apple cake is one of the most commonly served desserts in Poland and there are as many recipes as there are cooks. This is how my family likes apple cake. The Polish version of apple pie is known as szarlotka. But this Polish apple cake is truly a cake.

This quick and easy recipe for Polish plum cake makes good use of an abundance of fresh fruit (plums, nectarines, peaches, apples) or it can be made with canned fruit. 

This Krystyna's Polish buttermilk crumb cake is topped with fresh fruit of choice (we like tart cherries) and sweet crumbs. It's so easy that even a beginner cook can make this dessert. For variety, Krystyna sometimes spreads two cans of poppyseed filling on top of the fruit followed by the crumb topping.

This Polish pineapple crumb cake was a favorite of my maternal busia. She had never had pineapple before emigrating to the States even though it was being eaten in Spain as early as the 1500s. Her first taste of this tropical fruit and she was in love. She adored upside down cake and this simple, moist dessert that can be served after any meal (even breakfast).

This easy blueberry cake bars recipe is made in a 13x9-inch pan and is as easy as pie, except it isn't pie! It's a darn good cake that's simple to make and is perfect for an abundance of blueberries.

This Romanian apricot and blueberry cake recipe uses self-rising flour and eggs as the leavening ingredients, not yeast, making it very easy to prepare. Here, we have used apricots and blueberries to give it a little extra punch.