Ukrainian & Eastern European Cakes in Bracknell
Medovik, Napoleon, Spartak, Kyiv cake, bird’s milk and oreshki — the cakes this kitchen is actually known for, made to order in Bracknell and delivered across Berkshire. They are not variations on a sponge: most of them are built from thin layers baked separately and assembled with cream.
This page is the map. What each one is, which to order first if you have never had any of them, and which keeps best — with a link to the page that takes the order.
What are they, and what do they cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
Classic Honey Cake Thin honey layers, baked separately and softened by the cream between them to £150 at ten inches | £100 |
Spartak (Chocolate Honey Cake) The same build in chocolate — honey dough with cocoa in it to £150 at ten inches | £100 |
Napoleon Cake Puff pastry, baked crisp and layered with custard to £150 at ten inches | £100 |
Honey Cake with Prunes & Nuts Honey layers again, with prunes and walnuts through the cream to £160 at ten inches | £110 |
Kyiv Cake three thin meringue layers with two layers of cream between them 10" only | £100 |
Bird's Milk Cake two thin sponges with two layers of set soufflé between them 10" only | £80 |
Menu prices are per size and come from the kitchen’s own list — the full one is on the signature menu, and each cake has its own page under signature cakes.
Order an Eastern European cake
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.
How do these cakes differ from one another?
By what the layer is made of, which decides everything else — the texture, the keeping and whether the cake improves overnight or declines. The table below is the family at a glance, with a link to each one’s own page.
| Cake | The layer | From |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Honey Cake | Thin honey layers, baked separately and softened by the cream between them | £100 |
| Spartak (Chocolate Honey Cake) | The same build in chocolate — honey dough with cocoa in it | £100 |
| Napoleon Cake | Puff pastry, baked crisp and layered with custard | £100 |
| Honey Cake with Prunes & Nuts | Honey layers again, with prunes and walnuts through the cream | £110 |
| Kyiv Cake | three thin meringue layers with two layers of cream between them | £100 |
| Bird's Milk Cake | two thin sponges with two layers of set soufflé between them | £80 |
| Oreshki | Not a cake at all — shortcrust shells filled with boiled condensed milk | By the kilo |
Why do the layers have to rest?
Because a honey cake is assembled dry and finished by time rather than by heat. The discs come out of the oven firm enough to snap; stacked with cream and left, they draw moisture out of it and turn into one body instead of a pile of biscuits. A day does most of that work. It is the reason these cakes are ordered 7–10 days ahead rather than baked to order on the morning, and the reason a medovik eaten on the second day is better than the same cake on the first — which is true of almost nothing else in a bakery.
Which to order when
Never had one — plain medovik, and it will be eaten by everybody.
You prefer crisp to soft — Napoleon, and eat it the day it arrives.
You want chocolate — Spartak, which is medovik in a darker coat.
Something to hand over rather than cut — oreshki, sold by the kilo.
Whose cakes are these, anyway?
A question with a sharper edge now than it had a decade ago, and the honest answer is that these cakes are older than the argument about them. Honey layer cakes are made from Poland to the Urals, each country with its own version and its own name for it; Kyiv cake is Ukrainian in origin and in name; the word medovik is simply the version that reached English first. A kitchen in Bracknell is not the place to settle any of it. What we can say is what is in each cake, what it costs, and when it will be ready.
The longer comparison of the two best known is in medovik or Napoleon, and what medovik is goes further into the honey cake itself.
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.