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Kohuke
What kohuke is
Kohuke is a small bar of sweetened quark (curd cheese), usually vanilla-flavoured, covered in a chocolate glaze — a glazed curd snack. The glazed curd bar arrived in the region in the mid-20th century, and Estonia adopted it so thoroughly that it became one of the country's best-known sweets: sold everywhere, packed into school lunchboxes, and given an official place in Estonian food culture.
How it is eaten
As a snack or dessert, straight from the fridge, usually with coffee or as a mid-morning break at work. The coating is what makes it feel like a treat: a thin layer of chocolate over the cold, slightly tangy curd inside. Finnish shops sell the same idea as rahkapatukka, often a little less sweet.
How to log it
The honest framing: kohuke is a dessert. The curd inside brings real protein, but the sugar and the chocolate glaze put a small bar around 250-300 kcal — in our database the plain curd base (cottage cheese) is about 81 kcal per 100 g, while the dark-chocolate glaze alone is 546 kcal per 100 g. Log the bar as a dessert and log the plain curd separately when you eat curd on its own.
Closest foods in our database
| Food | kcal / 100 g | As it is usually eaten here |
|---|---|---|
| Cottage cheese | 81 | the plain curd base |
| Dark chocolate | 546 | the glaze |
| Kefir | 52 | the cultured-dairy cousin |
Calories per 100 g come from the real rows in our food database (no invented values). This page describes food culture — it is not medical advice, and no single food decides anyone's weight.
