Syrniki — Cottage Cheese Pancakes in Bracknell
Fried curd cakes made with tvorog — a drained sour-milk cheese, not the cottage cheese in a supermarket tub — served with sour cream, jam or boiled condensed milk. Three or four each is a breakfast.
Made to order and quoted per order. Delivered across Berkshire from £30, or collected free from Bracknell.
Oreshki Gift BoxesOreshki Gift Boxes — boxed sweets in cream, brown, white. 
Halloween Chocolate BoxHalloween Chocolate Box — boxed sweets in orange, black, brown for Halloween. 
Oreshki Boxes with Pink RibbonOreshki Boxes with Pink Ribbon — boxed sweets in cream, brown, white. 
Oreshki Box with Green RibbonOreshki Box with Green Ribbon — boxed sweets in cream, green, white.
From this kitchen — the rest of the gallery.
What do syrniki cost?
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
Syrniki by the batch Fried to order — say how many people and whether they are for breakfast or dessert Three or four each | Quoted per order |
No price list for these yet, and this page would rather say so than invent one. Страница по-русски and сторінка українською if that is easier.
Order syrniki
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.
Why does the cheese decide everything?
Because a syrnik is about four-fifths cheese. Tvorog is milk soured, heated gently and drained, so what is left is firm, slightly grainy and distinctly acidic — it holds its shape in a pan and it tastes of something. Everything else in the mixture is there to stop it falling apart: an egg, a spoon of flour or semolina, a little sugar.
Substitute a wetter cheese and the recipe collapses into a different dish. More flour has to go in to bind the extra water, and the more flour goes in the closer the result gets to a plain pancake with cheese in it. That is the version most people in Britain have eaten, and it is why they are usually surprised by the real one.
What goes with them?
Sour cream first, because the dish is built around the contrast between a sweet, crisp crust and something cold and sharp. After that: jam — sour cherry and raspberry are the traditional ones — honey, or boiled condensed milk, which is the same caramel that goes inside the oreshki. Fresh berries work and are the modern version.
What does not work is anything that competes with the crust. Syrup soaks them, chocolate sauce flattens the sourness, and cream makes an already rich plate heavy. The dish is four ingredients and it is better when it stays that way.
What else from this kitchen is not a cake?
Blini — thin, yeast-raised pancakes, savoury or sweet — and at Easter kulich and paska. Oreshki, the caramel-filled biscuits, are sold by the kilo and are the only thing here that goes in the post. Everything else is a cake and goes in a car.
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.