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Lithuanian Sweets - Traditional Lithuanian Food
Mar 24, 2025
Are you visiting Vilnius or Klaipeda in Lithuania and want to make your sweet tooth happy? Well here we give you a few of the tasty treats that kids young and old will like when they visit Lithuania. Filmed in Klaipeda, Lithuania Copyright Mark Wolters 2022 Learn how to plan your travels like we do with our Travel Planning 101 Course: https://www.brighttrip.com/woltersworld Visit Our Amazon Store for Drinkware, cookingware, travel gear, and other necessities of life. http://www.amazon.com/shop/woltersworld Follow Jocelyn on Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/jocelynwoltersworld Follow Simply Jocelyn on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Simply-Jocelyn-A-Globally-Inspired-Life-100312851709273/ Follow Our Shorts Channel for quick travel tips: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmSIWRrLCcqamLlTEEBLFLA
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Hey there fellow hungry travelers, Mark here with Walter's World Eats and today we're here in Lithuania and today we're going to talk about seven Lithuanian treats that you can't miss out on because there's some really good treats when you're here and a lot of them you've never seen before in your entire life so you definitely have to try it when you're here
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And the first one, and this is one you'll actually probably see at the airport, you'll see it at bakeries, you'll see it around town, that is shokotis
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And shokotis is the tree cake. So if you look up Lithuanian treats, I guarantee the first thing that comes up is shokotis
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Like this is one you have to have. And what's cool is when they make the cake, it's on a spit and it's spinning and they're
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like pouring the batter on it while they're doing it, like dabbing it on there
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And it makes like a Christmas tree like shape. It's really kind of cool. And it's like a hollow cylinder in the middle because they take it off the spit
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and you break off a piece and eat it. And if you go to the store, you don't have to get the whole cake
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You can actually get pieces like that and try it, but it's a sweet cake. It's like crispy on the outside, soft on the inside
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but it is definitely a thing you have to have when you're here. My kids loved it when they were here
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and I know that there's all kinds of great stories about it, so have that. That's one thing you have to know
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Now, my go-to snack when I used to take the bus here in Lithuania, oh, I lived here for three and a half years, by the way
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I used to go back and forth to Vilnius and Klaipeda because I worked in both cities
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and I would take the bus and I always had to have a snack on the way and there's a thing called tinganese okay tinganese
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um if you look at it you think is that like chocolate sausage yes it looks like chocolate
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sausage and what it is it's like crumbled crumbled up butter cookies inside I guess it's not necessarily
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fudge but a chocolate roll and how they roll it up I swear to god it looks like it's a sausage
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because a lot of times if you at the the covines the like little cafes they have it like still wrapped up in the tin foil And then they cut it into slices like thick salami pieces So you get like this big round wedge and it just or slice I should say
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and it's really, really good. And it's one of those things I would take with me every time on
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the trip because it was just like, hey, a nice, really tasty treat. But that's one you have to
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have when you're here. So you're going to be taking the bus. I'm sure at the bus stations, there'll be somebody selling it there. You can grab a slice when you're there. Now the next one
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to talk about is shimtelapis and i know it's been a long time since i lived in lithuania so my words
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aren't all there but basically what this is it's a it's a poppy seed cake okay and you'll have it
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and the poppy seeds like it's like rolled up into it and you have the poppy seeds in there and it's
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really really good like that's one you'll see when you're going to have arbatos and i'm not going to
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say arbatos is a treat a sweet treat you should have here in lithuania i'm going to say arbatos
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is part of having some of these sweet treats because they actually love tea here so you can
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have some of these cakes at some of these tea houses, okay? Probably not Chocotis, but some of
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the other ones, okay? Now, if you're at a store or a gas station and you see what you think is a candy
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bar in the frozen food-ish kind of section or the cold food kind of section, that is Suralis. And
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Suralis is basically cheese curd in like a chocolate coating. It'll be different flavors
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of cheese curd, but it's like wrapped in chocolate and you have that. And the thing is, they love
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cheese curd here and if you're thinking like wisconsin cheese curds kind of curd no think
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it more of a like it's vashkish serralis it's like um it's like somewhere between a sour cream
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and a cheese curd and a and a i guess a uh cheesecakey kind of consistency inside this
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chocolate coating it is so good liam and i just we just powed those down when we were here together
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so that's something you should definitely have for a sweet treat but i will warn you once you
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buy them you got to eat them right away because it a thin chocolate shell on the outside and it been kept cold and even if it winter time your fingers will melt that really quick so you buy it and eat it so don buy like 10 at once go buy like one or two and eat those then go back inside and get another one because they that good but you
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don't want to have them too much because they do kind of melt relatively quickly so just letting
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you know that one now speaking of melting kind of stuff this is the most basic basic like treat you
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can have like this is like stuff that was back in the soviet times kind of things but honestly one
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of my favorite favorite favorite things to have here in lithuania is just getting a little ice
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cream cone but here's the catch it's not an ice cream cone where they fill it up for you it's a
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pre-packaged like joy cone filled with ice cream it'll be in different flavors you might have vanilla
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you might have just plain cream you might have it with raisins in it there's a lot of different
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versions of it but for me just the plain old ice cream in a in a cone that comes in a bag you open
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up it's so lithuanian it's so tasty i mean they had it all over the world but it for me that's one
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of those things you have here and if you're going to go to smiltina you're going to go to the beaches here or some of the lakes here in lithuania you're going to trakai there will be selling that
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like where you have your magnum ice cream bars they'll have that too and it's still super cheap
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so that's a nice thing there now another kind of cakey kind of treat which looks kind of like
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Chakotis, but it's totally not Chakotis, is Cruz Delinas. I know I'm totally butchering this one
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but think of it this way. Think if it's like pastry, like a puff pastry layered, and then another layer
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put on differently, and another layer pulled out, and they kind of stack it up after it's been done
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and they put honey on top of it. Oh, the honey flavoring makes it so good, but I'm not going to
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lie to you. You get so sticky from that that it's kind of crazy. So maybe have the extra thing of
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Arbatos to put your fingers in to clean it off but that is one sweet treat you want to have when you here Now another thing you might see whether it at the bus station or the train station or around at some of the kiosks are spurgos And spurgos is when you look at it you like oh it just a big donut Well it a little bit different than
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just a donut because it's a donut that's made with that cheese curd, the varzke, in it. So it's a
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really softer donut and it is fantastic. And if you get it freshly fried, be careful, it's a little
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hot, but give it a little time to cool off and then eat it. Oh my God, they're so good, you're
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going to have them but a big old spurgos you can't go wrong with and then the last one i want to talk
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about is karshtaschokolade now hot chocolate is everywhere in the world and lithuanian does not
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invent it it's not something that's super special whatever but for me if you're here in the winter
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time and they have karshtaschokolade lithuanian style karshtaschokolade you should get it because
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it's not like a mug of nesquik oh no no no no it's like they took chocolate and melted just the
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chocolate down and it's like liquid lava chocolate it's it's amazing it's like the inside of lava
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cakes and what's cool is sometimes they'll put hazelnuts in there sometimes they'll put like
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paprika in there oh it is so good i mean this is one thing my mama's asking mark are you gonna have
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the custard chocolates when you're there i'm like mom it's summertime it's not on the menu right now
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but if you can get it you should get it and the thing is there's a lot of other tasty treats that
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are here a lot of baked goods you can have that are going to be nice i mean but i mean they're not
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necessarily on the list. I mean, just having the brown bread here is just amazing by itself, but
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that's not really a sweet treat, but it is a treat you should have. So I hope this helps you understand
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some of the sweet treats you should have when you come to Lithuania, because you're really going to
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enjoy it. And if you do go to an Eastern European market, if you're in the U.S., you might see that
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Serralis might actually be there, Shakoltis might be there. So you can grab some of these things
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around the world. Anyway, I wish you all the best. I'll say Visogaro from here in Lithuania
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or skanos, which is, you know, tastiness. Like, you know, bon appetit
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