[1] According to food writer Marianna Dushar, medivnyk is a fundamental dessert of Львів regional cuisine.

[3] Polish-Ukrainian food writer Wiktoria Popin classifies medivnyk as a keks (a type of fruitcake).

[1] Apart from the spongy cake, medivnyk in Ukrainian can also mean prianyk or pernik, a hard honey cookie.

[5] The village of Velykyi Bychkiv, located in the Rakhiv Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, has a peculiar wedding custom.

Instead of baking a traditional wedding korovai, they make an "embroidered" honey cake called medivnyk.