Polish Cuisine - Desserts

Desserts

  • Makowiec - Sweet poppy seed-swirl cake, with raisins walnut.
  • Pączek - Closed donut filled with rose petal jam or other fruit conserves.
  • Pierniki - Soft gingerbread shapes iced or filled with marmalade of different fruit flavours and sometimes covered with chocolate.
  • Sernik - Sernik (cheesecake) is one of the most popular desserts in Poland. It is a cake made primarily of twaróg, a type of fresh cheese, eggs, vanila, raisins and orange peel, served cold.
  • mazurek - cake baked in Poland, particularly at Christmas Eve and Easter, but also at other winter holidays, there are endless variations with different fillings, fruit and walnut paste or chocolate.
  • Chałka - Sweet white wheat bread of Jewish origin.
  • Krówki - Polish fudge, soft milk toffee candies.
  • Ptasie Mleczko - chocolate-covered candy filled with soft meringue (or milk soufflé).
  • Kisiel - Clear, jelly-like sweet fruit liquid, red currant is popular one.
  • Budyń - Pudding, usually comes in many different flavors, such as sweet cream, chocolate, and even cherry.
  • Faworki - Light fried pastry covered with powdered sugar.
  • Pańska Skórka, Miodek - Kind of hard Taffy sold at cemeteries during Zaduszki and at Stare Miasto (Old city) in Warsaw.
  • Kutia - A small square pasta with wheat, poppy seeds, nuts, raisins and honey. Typically served during Christmas in the eastern regions (Białystok).
  • Delicje - Soft biscuits topped with chocolate and orange filling, apricot filling, raspberry filling, cherry filling or strawberry filling.
  • Prince Polo - A Polish chocolate bar.
  • Mieszanka Wedlowska - Assorted chocolate covered candy.
  • Torcik Wedlowski - A large, circular, chocolate covered wafer with hand-made decorations.
  • Pawełek - Chocolate bar with a flavored filling that contains a small amount of alcohol.

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