Croatian Cooking: Kremšnite Recipe (Croatian Custard Slice)

Crispy pastry and custard. Yes please….!

Kremšnite is also known as krempite – which is a mix of crispy pastry and a wobbly type of custard. I have been known to eat way too big a serving of this sweet treat. Regularly. And by that I mean my behind is wobbly for a reason. But let’s move on.

This type of custard dessert is popular in Croatian cooking and many other European countries. Within Croatia the regional recipe variations are many, however, two things stay the same. They all include a puff pastry base with custard inside.

Some have a layer of cream added to the top others have two layers of pastry and so on. No matter how you pronounce it, or in what variation it comes, they’re all rather hard to say no too. Trust me on this….

One of my food goals (yes, fat people have goals about food) was to learn how to make this as soon as I arrived here in Croatia. I don’t think I can say that I make Croatian food, without knowing how to make this custard slice of…