Cozonac is the Romanian sweet yeast bread, braided or rolled around walnut, cocoa or Turkish delight filling, baked for Easter and Christmas; in Romania we have verified places to eat it in Bucharest. Start with where to eat Cozonac in Bucharest.
Cozonac · Bucharest
Cozonac is the Romanian sweet yeast bread, braided or rolled around walnut, cocoa or Turkish delight filling, baked for Easter and Christmas.
The earliest known written cozonac recipe is in an 1841 cookbook from Iași by Costache Negruzzi and Mihail Kogălniceanu. Later Romanian cookbooks added butter, eggs, sugar and raisins, then rum, rose water and lemon zest, and Romanian recipes added cocoa, walnuts and lokum. In Romania and Moldova it is traditionally baked in Holy Week, and for centuries it was not missing from an Easter or Christmas table. Bulgarian kozunak is the same family of bread.
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