Olga's Ukrainian Christmas poppy seed roll.

This is a very tender, and buttery pastry (no sugar in the pastry) and it is filled with a spongy cake like filling of canned poppy seeds and ground poppy seeds.

While not the traditional lemon meringue pie, this filling, more like Key lime pie filling, is less likely to split - but it's just as lemony as the original.

Vegetarian alternative, these are light and tender baked traditional Ukrainian Pyrizhky. These buns are stuffed with dried split peas, and can be served as a meal on their own or as a side dish.

These crisp, light Khrustyky are fried like fritters. They are best eaten on the day they are made and are lovely served with coffee or tea.

The Prinzregententorte is Bavaria's unofficial "chocolate sweet" - six thin vanilla sponge layers sandwiched together with the richest chocolate butter cream ever.

Boston cream pie isn't really a pie, but a layer cake that combines layers of butter cake or spongecake, filled with pastry cream, and topped with a chocolate frosting or ganache.

This 2 strand braid looks like a 3 strand braid. Buns are very light, fine grained and tender.

My son is a vegetarian so I try to make food with some kind of protein in it.

Elegant in the old world tradition. Very light cake layers. There is no baking powder or soda in the cake.

Tender Nalysnyky with a light cheese filling.

This is my son's second favourite soup after the sorrel soup. He loves to eat this soup with split pea pyrizhky. This is my version of vegetarian split pea soup.

Fish is very crunchy and delicious and the fries are crisp. Serve with traditional malt vinegar or tartar sauce.

This popular Ukrainian dish Varenyky is also known as pyrohy, perogies or potato dumplings.

Rich little cookies filled with nuts, brown sugar, cinnamon and cocoa. Usually made with yeast but this recipe is made with cream cheese and butter.

The name is derived from a Ukrainian word “kolo”, meaning a circle, which is an old symbol of eternity and general welfare.

Soft and tasty.

Ukrainian Easter Babka, this is a very spongy Babka.

These are not too sweet crispy delicate pastry rings.

This yeast dough is not too rich or too sweet. It is formed into ovals and then stretched to resemble a platypus tail and quickly fried and then tossed in cinnamon sugar.

Ukrainian Pampushky are always a great favorite at Christmas time. "Pampushky" means puffs.

A light yeast raised batter bakes atop of a delicious brown sugar, honey, nut, and sliced apple base.

Tender, spongy and delicious. Serve with coffee or with a meal. Slice and toast the buns once they get a little dry and they will become soft and spongy again.

This makes a wonderful side dish for Christmas. Serve warm or at room temperature and it is also delicious cold.

Tender and light with swirls of chocolate, If you want more chocolate just increase the butter spread on the dough and increase cocoa/sugar filling.

Tender, light dough with a delicious filling.

This is my son's favourite soup. He is a vegetarian so I use vegetable stock. For best flavour use homemade chicken broth.

These pancakes made of coarsely grated potatoes are also known as terchenyky or deruny.

This dough is very tender and very easy to work with.

This is a lovely simple rustic chewy bread with a crisp crust.

Everyone loves these pyrizhky they are light and tender and the best you have ever tasted if I say so myself.

With a flaky pie crust, tart lemon filling and soft meringue on top.

This is a delicious cookie crust -- rich with eggs, butter and sour cream and is filled with a generous layer of apples.

This is a beautiful, easy to make -- close textured bread which slices beautifully. It makes the best toast and is excellent for tea sandwiches.

This is a very soft dough and you don't knead it on the counter.

This recipe is not as rich as the other recipe here for poppy seed Filled Crescents (Ukrains'ki Rohalyky). This recipe has less butter and no sour cream and no eggs in the dough.

Ukrainians are very fond of poppy seeds. This dough is rich, tender and not too sweet. The filling is dark with poppy seeds and raisins with a touch of honey for sweetness.

This Ukrainian Easter Paska recipe makes delicious sweet egg bread that can be decorated.

Three almond filled strands intertwine to make this Almond Braid.

This festive sweet bread with lemon glazed topping can be made for any occasion.