Moldovan Sweets and Baking

Specialised

Sweet plăcinte and vertuta; cozonac, the rich braided yeast loaf with walnut, poppy seed or cocoa filling, baked for Christmas and Easter; walnut and honey pastries; baclava in the Gagauz and southern communities; fruit compot; magiun; and Soviet-legacy layer cakes and condensed-milk sweets that are now genuinely traditional in their own right.