After Cukarin, we present to you another one of Korčula’s great cake shops: Škatula.
Škatula (which means “Box” in English, which probably explains what you should expect to bring with you when you decide to visit the shop) is a somewhat more traditional cake shop than Cukarin, in terms that it has a wider offer of cakes, and that offer includes traditional Korčulan sweets, as well as types of cakes you would expect to find in a “normal” cake shop.
So, you will be able to try the traditional sweets here, such as klašuni (shortbread sweets filled with almond filling; rumored to be at their best after two or three days but no-one ever managed to avoid the temptation for that long and actually have them on the third day), famous Korčulan cukarini – also shortbread cookies, perfect to be dipped into prošek, perfect fig dessert (with added orange and lemon zest), almond crocant (caramelized sugar with bits of almond added to the mix), and perfect carob bites (called “harub cakes”, which is not a word that is usually used for carob in Croatian, but definitely has the same source as the English word).
In addition to those, Škatula offers you various chocolate, haselnut and coconut cakes, tarts with numerous fillings, a Croatian favourite called mađarica (which means “a Hungarian woman”; probably not made in Hungary at all), muffins and cupcakes made with just about anything (obviously not a Croatian traditional sweet), and numerous other bite-sized cookies and sweets.
You can buy their products gift-packaged, and if you’re planning any type of party (birthday, wedding, anniversary, literally anything where you might need a cake) on Korčula and would like to order desserts for it, you must consider Škatula for the job. Although it hasn’t been open for long, the shop is a dream-come-true for its owner Josipa Barčić, who’s worked in the dessert business for over 20 years, and has won several awards and has been given the title of Croatian Island Product by the Ministry of Regional Development.
