TasteAtlas, an online travel guide for traditional food, has compiled a list of top 93 Slovenian foods, headed by prekmurska gibanica, a traditional dessert from the northwestern region of Prekmurje.

A pastry with alternating layers of strudel dough and apple, cottage cheese, walnut and poppy seed fillings, gibanica was first mentioned in written records in 1828 as a dessert typically served at weddings.

Two more pastry dishes are ranked among the top three Slovenian foods, with krofi, krapfen or doughnuts in second, and the celebrated Bled cream cake or kremna rezina in third.

The portal notes that krapfen was probably the first European-style doughnut to appear, followed by similar varieties in other countries.

Krofi, a type of doughnuts. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

According to Slovenian ethnologist Janez Bogataj, the origin of krofi goes back to imperial Vienna, where court chef Cecilija Krampf was the first to start making them.

A speciality of the Lake Bled area, kremna rezina is described by TasteAtlas as a luscious cream cake with a golden, crispy, buttery pastry acting as its base and topped with flavourful vanilla custard, whipped cream, and a layer of thin, buttery pastry.

The portal notes that the story of the cake began with the arrival of chef Ištvan Lukačević to Bled's Park Hotel, where he modified the Hungarian cream cake by adding the right proportions of whipped cream into it, and in 1953, the hotel presented Lukačević's invention to the public.

Kremna rezina or cream cake. Photo: Daniel Novakovič/STA

The top ranking savoury dish is gobova juha, a traditional Slovenian mushroom soup, in fourth place, followed by potica, another traditional cake, in fifth, and sirovi štruklji, a rolled pastry filled with cottage cheese that is cooked rather than baked, in sixth.

Rounding off the top ten dishes is the bograč meat stew, the kranjska sausage, the idrijski žlikrofi filled pasta and the kraški pršut air-dried ham.

The full list is available here.