HoneySweet Workshop

Mónika Baráth Adorján and her daughter Bori Adorján ran a family restaurant for many years, where Bori increasingly spent her time making desserts. The feedback from guests and her love of baking encouraged Bori to attend pastry school, enabling them to work professionally yet still maintain a handcrafted approach. 
Mónika, however, didn’t get close to baking homemade treats in the restaurant but rather at home, delighting the family almost daily with sweet “dough” – as cakes are often referred to in Zala. The first large-scale order for baked goods came from a hotel in Hévíz, where the task was to create edible Christmas gifts. While gingerbread would have been the obvious choice, Mónika and her family came up with a completely different idea. They dug out old family recipes and rediscovered a forgotten treat: honey gingerbread biscuits.
During the pandemic, when the hospitality industry came to a halt, the success of their homemade gingerbread biscuits set them on a new path: the family closed the restaurant and founded the HoneySweet Workshop. The goal wasn’t to operate a traditional patisserie but to create a workshop where they could work at their own pace, in their own style, and without compromise.

Today, everyone in the workshop has their favourite activity: Bori is the master of modern cakes, tarts, macarons, and bespoke orders, while her mother, Mónika, focuses on traditional pastries – layered cakes, honey cream slices, flódni, or zserbó.
Some of the recipes are old family heirlooms, passed down from great-grandmothers, aunts, grandmothers, or even from the recipe books of Mrs Géza Ábrahám, which they’ve adapted to their own tastes. 
Every pastry has a unique twist, something that makes it different, homely, and unmistakably HoneySweet.

HoneySweet Workshop’s honey gingerbread biscuits invite you on a journey through time: they bring back memories of a countryside grandma’s kitchen and the warm, spicy scents of Christmas. Coated in snowy white icing, the biscuits captivate not only with their appearance but also with their flavour and texture. As soon as you take a bite, the crumbly dough almost melts in your mouth.
The secret to HoneySweet Workshop’s gingerbread lies in their unique spice blend, which contains eight aromatic spices. 
Another key ingredient is honey, sourced from a local beekeeper in Gyenesdiás.
The team loves experimenting with their gingerbread biscuits, so you might occasionally find new flavours to try. Their latest innovation is made with wholegrain spelt and wheat flour.
This summer’s biggest hit in the gingerbread range was the lavender flavour, for which the lavender is grown, harvested, dried, and ground in the workshop’s own garden before being added to the honey dough.

The workshop is not a traditional patisserie. The sweets are made to order and are also available at the Hévíz Farmers’ Market. The personal touch of shopping is an important part of the concept – whether it’s tasting at the market or a pre-arranged visit.

Honey gingerbread biscuits
The flagship product of HoneySweet Workshop is their honey gingerbread biscuits, available in a variety of flavours. The dough is dense yet crumbly, melting in your mouth with every bite. There’s no need to wait days for them to soften – these biscuits are instantly tender. The perfect texture comes from an old recipe: flour, sugar, margarine, eggs, sour cream, and baking soda, along with the secret spice blend. This blend is their own creation, containing eight different spices.
Each biscuit is individually hand-shaped into a round form and placed on the baking tray one by one. After baking, they are dipped in large bowls of icing and then laid out side by side to dry – every single piece is handmade with care.
The flavours include both traditional and unique varieties: plain, prune and rum, cranberry, candied orange, ginger (without icing), cocoa and chocolate chip, and seasonally, lavender.
For the lavender gingerbread, the lavender blooms in the workshop’s garden every June.

You can purchase the products at:
●    Hévíz Farmers’ Market