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Thanksgiving
Pumpkin Sheet Cake: easy to make, fluffy, moist; topped with delicious sweet cream cheese frosting. This is the BEST pumpkin dessert you will ever make.
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I’m Olga, a baker, cook, blogger, food photographer and mom of two. Olga in the Kitchen is a food blog sharing easy step-by-step photos and videos, to help create memorable family moments.
All-Things Pumpkin
Super soft and fluffy Iced Pumpkin Cookies, topped with a sweet vanilla cinnamon icing and are a must for the fall season.
Top Recipes
Homemade Bread
This easy No-Knead Bread loaf has a deliciously crisp crust and a soft spongy center. It’s the perfect blend of soft and chewy.
Sweet Cheese Filled Buns (Vatrushka Recipe) are freezer-friendly, soft and fluffy sweet buns filled with delicious smooth farmer’s cheese filling. These are BEST when they are warm and fresh from the oven.
Ukrainian Pumpkin Bread is delicious any time of the year! It has a mild pumpkin flavor from homemade pumpkin puree, a yellow-ish fluffy and tender texture and a shiny dark-brown crust.
Favorite Ukrainian Dishes
Best Tips
Buckwheat is a healthy, gluten-free seed with a nutty, toasty flavor and soft texture. It is not as popular as oats and wheat and often under-appreciated, but it’s so easy to prepare and inexpensive.
Winter Salads
Vinaigrette Salad (Vinegret): made out of root vegetables, combined with a bit of tang from pickles, dressed in sunflower oil and garnished with fresh parsley!
Mimosa Salad (Layered Egg and Cheese Salad): elegant, festive, appealing to an eye and delicious in taste! This salad is simply gorgeous!
Shuba Salad (Layered Beet Salad with Herring) is an easy and festive dish created from root vegetables and very popular among Ukrainian families.
