Smetannik

Also served was smetannik, a walnut sponge cake with sour cream filling; […]

More a café masquerading as a restaurant, Mari Vanna opens for lunch, does afternoon tea and continues until the last mouthful of smetannik (sour cream cake) has been consumed at dinner.

The bakery offers fresh khachapuri, a Georgian cheese bread, and smetannik, a Russian sour cream cake.

A small New York company is behind the indulgent smetannik, or sour cream cake.

You’ll see pools of kefir, sbiten, kvass, or vzvar in cavities of rocks, borscht and ukha swelling up in tree stumps, stuffed blintzes and pierogi mushrooming in flower clusters or out of tree bark or hanging from leaves, and cream-covered smetannik adorning trees like snow.