Layered Biscuit and Sour Cream Cake

Marcinek

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Preparation info
  • Makes

    one

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond

By Laurel Kratochvila

Published 2025

  • About

I had to drive clear across Poland to try this cake. Marcinek is a many-layered biscuit and sweetened sour cream cake claimed as a regional delicacy by the town of Hajnówka. Hajnówka is the last stop before you hit the thick Białowieża Forest and the Belarusian border. On my way, I found a room for the night in the culinarily named Knyszyn (Knish) Forest. Over breakfast, the only other guest, an off-road motorcycle enthusiast and IT specialist, told me what he knew about Hajnówka. “It’s the