A wide variety of sweets are an essential part of Christmas and the holidays. We show you some great places in Budapest where you can listen to Christmas pudding to your heart’s content.
Trumpet cake pastry shop Edes Mackó
There was no doubt that trumpet cake pastry shop Édes Mackó would adapt its trumpet cake flavors to suit Christmas over Advent. In addition to the classic flavours, we will also have the opportunity to taste our favorite desserts in ginger, chocolate, chili, citrus, passion fruit, toasted hazelnut and cherry poppy flavours. During the holiday season, of course, we can also order Kürtősbons in Christmas flavors. So, if we were to say that a delicious, frothy cocoa treat is the perfect complement to a ginger horn fondue covered in Belgian chocolate or a citrus horn fondue with whipped cream, would you be able to say no?
1146 Budapest, Alaatkritti. 14-16. | Facebook
Mallorca
Since 2009, Majorca, Varosmagor’s bar has been presenting its best winter clothes every fall. It will be no different this year, and what’s more, winter brings with it Mallorca’s famous steamed dumplings filled with plum jam, which many people like to accompany with mulled wine. It is no coincidence that Mallorca has become the city’s favorite steam dumpling shop, with the poppy miracle covered in vanilla cream becoming one of the indispensable accessories of the winter holidays. Mallorca is a great choice if you want to experience the atmosphere of the alpine huts in the center of Buda, not only alone, but also with a group of friends and for the company’s end of the year event.
1125 Budapest, Szilágyi Erzsébet Fasor 16. | website
Macy’s Bistro
A culinary hotspot in the heart of downtown, Macesz Bistro and its sweet classics will turn any December day into a festive one. The Jewish cuisine dessert, Flodni, is traditionally prepared in the bistro kitchen: a poppy, walnut, apple and plum filling surrounded by layers of soft dough. You don’t have to wait until New Year’s Eve to get the cake, which symbolizes abundance and wealth, as you can enjoy the permanent dessert on the bistro’s menu any day. And until the snow drifts outside, after finishing the newly revamped lunch offering, we can indulge in a bite of white powdered sugar covered in the snow.
1072 Budapest, Dub Utca 26. | website | Facebook
Fishermen’s fort
Cookie, not cookie – Woody Allen asked that question in this very movie, and if you don’t even remember the answer, that’s okay, because there’s a mystery on the candy front even off screen. To solve this puzzle, this time you have to go all the way to the Fisherman’s Fort. Don’t flip through the menu so quickly, feel free to stop for a moment at the appetizers and take a look at the duck liver mousse with quince and buckwheat.
It looks like a little tart, and we’re not kidding, it’s definitely worth a taste if you want to know why you’re asking the question: is it a cookie or isn’t it? And if you’re not in the mood for speculation, that’s not a problem either, since towards the end of the menu, the plum dumplings are also plum dumplings, seasoned with a few refined touches. Our childhood favorites are a surprise and pure culinary delight.
1014 Budapest, Fisherman’s Bastion – North News Tower | website
Dobby Sweets
Dobay Cukrászda, which belongs to the VakVarjú family of restaurants, offers its guests a truly festive experience with its Christmas cakes. Following the sweets that debuted at Halásztel last year, the recently opened Dobay Horváth-kert confectionery and bakery in District 1 is all about Christmas and the holidays. This year, their confectioners have taken inspiration from our grandmothers’ favorite recipe books, but in addition to the classic flavours, they’re also offering those who want festive flavors two new products, pistachio babka and stollen.
Dubai sweets enhance the intimate Christmas experience with their quality and natural ingredients, baked together with love. In addition to the poppy, walnut and chestnut cakes made in their own pastry shops, the Christmas tiramisu, gerbils, plum jam pillow, homemade honey cream, the already mentioned stolen cake, pistachio and chocolate babka, transform the Christmas table into a truly festive one. Immediately.
1016 Budapest, Christina Court. 38. | 2314 Halasztilik, II. Ferenc Rakoczi 68. | website
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