Make Your Pączki at Home With This Traditional Polish Recipe (2024)

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What are the traditional Polish paczki flavors? ›

Powidła (stewed plum jam) and wild rose petal jam are traditional fillings, but many others are used as well, including strawberry, Bavarian cream, blueberry, custard, raspberry, and apple. Pączki have been known in Poland at least since the Middle Ages.

Pączki are pastries made from deep-fried flat dough with fruit or cream filling and are topped with a light dusting of sugar. The traditional fruit filling is prune, but others include apricot, lemon, blueberry, raspberry and custard.

Pączki are very rich donuts, deep fried and then filled with fruit or cream filling and covered with powdered sugar or icing. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent. Traditionally, Lent was 40 days of fasting, meaning only one meal a day and full fasting on Friday.

We offer 10 fillings (Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Chocolate Cream, Cream, Cream Cheese, Custard, Lemon, Prune Lekvar & Raspberry) and 2 toppings (Glaze and Powdered Sugar). Many who have tried our paczki have deemed them the best they have ever had!

Any paczki with a dairy filling should be stored in the refrigerator. Like other donuts, they're best fresh, but we eat them for a few days, and they are still tasty - just not as good as they are right after cooking them.

noun. , plural pacz·ki. a traditional Polish doughnut, filled with jam or another sweet filling and covered with powdered sugar or icing.

The difference between paczki and donuts is the ingredients in their dough. Paczki uses an extra amount of enriching ingredients, yeast, grain alcohol, and high-gluten flour. Together, these create a richer-than-brioche dough, but far chewier with little to no crumbs.

"When you eat it, it doesn't collapse. It fluffs right back up." In a Smithsonian article from February of 2023, Bielinski noted that paczki dough is richer and denser than a doughnut. It's complemented by a sweet fruit preserve filling, a thin glaze on top, a hint of orange or lemon peel, or even a trace of rose.

Light and fluffy brioche donuts filled with a strawberry rose jam, and coated with a rose sugar!

Are paczki healthy? ›

The nutritional facts of paczki are hard to pin down because the size and ingredients vary. Spectrum Health registered dietitian Jill Graybill said they have 400 to 700 calories and 25 grams of fat or more. That's roughly a third of the calories and fat recommended in a healthy 1,800- to 2,000-calorie diet.

Can you freeze paczki? Yes, but really these are best fresh! If you want to freeze them, I recommend waiting to coat them in sugar and fill with filling.

The paczki are best the same day they are made, but can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.

Though flavors like strawberry, cherry, and custard are among the most popular pączki fillings, I am totally serious when I say that prune is my favorite pączki flavor.

What's the difference between paczki and sufganiyot? In Poland, jelly doughnuts are called paczki which means flower buds. Traditionally, they were fried in lard which sets them apart from sufganiyot, which are fried in oil.

Fat Tuesday is the day before Ash Wednesday which is a day of preparation for the penitential season of Lent. Paczki are Polish deep-fried donuts that are filled with some sweet filling such as jam, custard, lemon curd or chocolate. They are usually covered with powdered sugar, icing, glaze or dried orange zest.

Pantazis said while they have a variety of eight different flavours -- apple, cherry, lemon, custard, raspberry, strawberry, blueberry and prune -- some fruit jams were harder to come by this year because of supply management issues. Due to that, Global will have limited supply of the prune and cherry flavours.