How to pronounce Šakotis

In the International Phonetic Alphabet it is /ʃɐˈkoːtʲɪs/. In plain English letters that is shah-KOH-tis, with the stress on the syllable in capitals. The recording above is by Olaf, a native speaker, shared on Wikimedia Commons.

What is Šakotis?

Šakotis is a dessert of Lithuania. People usually eat it on festive days. Its main ingredients are egg, dairy & cheese and wheat & flour. It tastes sweet.

Where Šakotis comes from

Šakotis is one of 13 signature dishes of Lithuania on this map.

• Cepelinai · Main dish · All Lithuania

  Cepelinai are large oval dumplings of grated raw and boiled potato, filled with minced pork or with dry curd cheese, and served with a sauce of sour cream, fried onions and bacon bits.

• Kugelis bulvių plokštainis · Main dish · Lithuania

  Kugelis, also called bulvių plokštainis, "potato pie", is a Lithuanian potato bake.

• Skilandis · Snack · Lithuania

  Skilandis, also called kindziukas, is a Lithuanian matured sausage and one of the country's most popular traditional smoked meats.

• Kūčiukai · Dessert · Lithuania

  Kūčiukai, also called šližikai or prėskutė and sometimes known in English as Christmas cakes, are small baked bites made for Kūčios, the traditional Lithuanian dinner on Christmas Eve.

• Krupnikas · Drink · Lithuania

  Krupnikas is a sweet honey liqueur made from grain spirit, honey and herbs, popular in Lithuania and in Poland, where it is called krupnik.

• Šaltibarščiai · Soup & stew · Vilnius

  Šaltibarščiai is a cold soup of kefir or sour milk coloured bright pink by grated cooked or pickled beetroot, with cucumber, dill, green onions and chopped hard-boiled egg.

Food of Lithuania

Dishes like Šakotis in other countries

Same type of dish and similar main ingredients as Šakotis:

• Sękacz · Dessert · Suwałki region (Podlasie), Poland

  Sękacz is a spit cake: a batter of butter, eggs, flour, sugar and cream is poured, layer after layer, onto a wooden roller or long cone that turns on a spit over an open fire, so that the cake grows in rings around it.

• Åland pancake ålandspannkaka · Dessert · Åland, Finland

  Ålandspannkaka, Åland pancake, is a traditional dish of the Åland Islands, the Swedish-speaking archipelago between Finland and Sweden.

• Plinse · Dessert · Lusatia (Brandenburg), Germany

  A Plinse is the pancake of eastern central Germany: a round, pan-sized batter cake of eggs, salt, milk and flour, fried golden brown on both sides.

• Princess cake Prinsesstårta · Dessert · Sweden

  Princess cake is a traditional Swedish layer cake of airy sponge, vanilla custard and a thick dome of whipped cream, covered in a smooth sheet of marzipan.