Blini — Russian Pancakes Made to Order in Bracknell
Thin, yeast-raised pancakes with a faint sourness and a lacy edge — the Eastern European kind, not the thick American one and not the plain French crêpe. Savoury or sweet, made to order by the batch.
Quoted per order, because it depends on how many and what goes in them. Delivered across Berkshire from £30.
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What do blini cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
Blini by the batch Made to order — say how many people and whether they are savoury or sweet Several each | Quoted per order |
Filled and rolled Cottage cheese, mushroom, meat, or jam — the filling changes the work, not the pancake Per piece | Quoted per order |
There is no price list for these yet and this page would rather say so than print a number nobody has agreed. Страница по-русски and сторінка українською if that is easier than English.
Order blini
We reply within 24 hours with a price. No deposit is taken until you are happy with the quote.
Not ready to send it? What follows answers most of what people ask first.
How long it takes
7–10 days for a simple design, at least 14 for two tiers.
Sooner is sometimes possible: a rush adds 50% when the notice is under 7 days, if the diary is clear.
In a hurry? Bento cakes take 3–5 days.
Delivery
From £30, quoted by distance from RG12 0UY.
Collection from Bracknell is free — see the areas we cover.
Paying
50% deposit to hold your date; orders under £50 are paid in full.
Balance 3 hours before collection, or cash on the day.
The deposit is non-refundable but transferable with 4 days' notice — full terms.
What makes a blin different from everything else round and flat?
The ferment. A blini batter is made with yeast and left to rise, sometimes twice, so by the time it hits the pan it is full of gas and faintly sour — and that sourness is the whole flavour. Pour it thin and the bubbles burst as it cooks, leaving the lacy holes that tell you it was made properly. A batter raised with baking powder cannot do this: it sets before it has had time to develop anything.
That is also why blini are the awkward one to buy. A supermarket blin is a small thick disc with no ferment in it at all, sold to carry smoked salmon; the thing people from Eastern Europe mean is a thin pancake the size of a plate, and the two share almost nothing but a name.
Why are blini eaten for a whole week?
Because Maslenitsa is a week, not a day. The week before Lent is the last one in which butter, eggs and milk may be eaten, and blini use all three — so they are eaten daily, with everything, until the fast begins. The round golden shape is explicitly a sun, which is why the week ends with fire and with the last of the butter.
In Britain the same logic collapses into a single Shrove Tuesday with a lemon and a bag of sugar. The dates coincide, so if you are ordering for Pancake Day you are ordering in the same week as everybody else who grew up with Maslenitsa — ask early. The Easter page has what follows the fast.
What else is made here from the same tradition?
Syrniki — fried cottage-cheese cakes, eaten for breakfast with sour cream — and at Easter kulich and paska. On the cake side it is medovik, Napoleon, Spartak, Kyiv cake and bird’s milk: 6 of the 14 cakes on the signature menu come from this tradition, all built from thin layers rather than sponge, and all better on their second day than their first. Unlike a Victoria sponge, which is at its best within hours, a layered cake is assembled a day before it is meant to be eaten.
What else do people ask?
Allergies? Our kitchen handles all 14 of the allergens UK law requires us to declare, so nothing we bake is free from any of them. What is in each cake, and our hygiene rating.