Slovakia’s Christmas searches: carp, kapustnica and vanilla crescent cookies in numbers

Average monthly searches in Slovakia:

1. carp – 27 100
2. kapustnica – 14 800 (including 5 400 for “Christmas kapustnica”)
3. potato salad – 8 100
4. lentil soup – 3 600
5. bobáľky (sweet bread dough bites) – 2 400
6. fish soup – 1 900

The carp figure includes all searches for that word, even those unrelated to cooking, and kapustnica and potato salad are made year-round. “Christmas Eve dinner” gets 590 searches a month. Find a full menu in the Christmas Eve dinner collection. We explain how many potatoes you need per person in our potato salad guide, and how long to cook kapustnica in our kapustnica guide.

1. vanilla crescent cookies – 12 100
2. medovníky (honey spice cookies) – 6 600
3. grilážky (caramel-nut wafer bars) – 6 600
4. bear paw cookies – 5 400
5. punch cake bars – 5 400
6. coconut balls – 3 600
7. laskonky (filled meringue sandwich cookies) – 3 600
8. coconut macaroons – 2 400
9. Linzer cookie dough – 2 400
10. vianočka (braided Christmas bread) – 1 900
11. walnut crescents – 1 900
12. stollen – 1 600
13. rum balls – 1 300

Poppy seed roll, Ischler sandwich cookies, and filled walnut-shaped cookies each get 1 000 searches a month.

Many people search for a category of baked goods rather than a specific recipe:

• Christmas cookies and pastries – 5 400
• Christmas cakes – 4 400
• fancy Christmas cookies and pastries – 1 600
• Christmas cookies without cream fillings – 1 000
• modern Christmas cookies and pastries – 880
• easy Christmas cookies – 590
• traditional Slovak Christmas baked goods – 590
• nontraditional Christmas cookies and pastries – 390

That is why we organized our recipes into these collections.

1. egg liqueur – 2 400
2. punch – 1 900
3. mulled wine – 1 600
4. hot chocolate – 1 600
5. grog (a hot rum drink) – 1 600
6. mead – 1 300

Keyword Planner also shows the year-over-year change for each search. These recipe searches are growing the most:

• gingerbread cookie recipe – +267%
• punch balls recipe – +240%
• grilážky recipe – +200%
• opekance (bread dough bites) recipe – +100%
• Christmas punch recipe – +100%

When search volumes are small, just a few extra searches can make a difference, so these figures are more useful as an indication of a trend than as precise measurements.

According to Google Trends data for 2021 through 2025, searches in Slovakia for Christmas baking and Linzer cookies start rising around November 20–30 and peak in the second and third weeks of December. Searches for kapustnica do not peak until Christmas week.

To see when to bake each type of cookie or pastry so it is fresh on Christmas Eve, use the Christmas baking planner: choose your baked goods to get a schedule and a single shopping list. Find everything in one place in our Christmas recipes.

The source is Google Ads Keyword Planner, with the country set to Slovakia and the period set to October 2025 through September 2026, using the “Average monthly searches” column. We checked the figures on October 31, 2026. Keyword Planner rounds figures and groups similar terms together, such as words with and without diacritical marks. The year-over-year change compares the latest available month with the same month a year earlier.

The figures show what people search for, not what they actually cook and bake.