cozonac

From Romanian cozonac.

cozonac (countable and uncountable, plural cozonaci)

1. (rare) A kind of stollen or sweet bread, often containing raisins, popular in southeastern Europe.
   • 1923, The Graphic, volume 107, page 440:

     It is an ancient custom for householders to give many "cozonacs"—a national, simple kind of cake that is always obtainable in every household—to both friends and employees on Easter morn, […]

   • 1967, Annie Samuelli, The Wall Between, page 203:

     […] enjoyed the baking of numerous "cozonacs" and cracking the red, gaily patterned eggs against each other, although we did not accompany this with the prescribed "Christ has Risen."

   • 2010, someone quoted in W. Gordon Lawrence's The Creativity of Social Dreaming, page 88:

     I dreamt of my dead husband, who asked me for a cozonac, adding, 'It's important that you prepare it yourself.' I had this dream three nights in a row until I finally baked it.

   • 2010, Haya Leah Molnar, Under a Red Sky: Memoir of a Childhood in Communist Romania, page 251:

     On New Year's Day Mama bakes a cozonac. She hasn't baked one since my birthday in April, ages ago. I follow her into the kitchen to watch her knead and braid the dough.

Borrowed from Bulgarian козунак (kozunak).

cozonac m (plural cozonaci)

1. a kind of sponge cake