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

FAQs

What are the traditional Polish paczki flavors? ›

The most popular paczki are custard filled or filled with fresh strawberries and cream.

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!

For some in line, their parents were born in Poland and they were upholding the tradition of eating paczki before Lent. For others, eating paczki this time of year holds a religious meaning; a final indulgence before 40 days of giving up a temptation.

These paczki are best the same day they are made. If having leftovers, store them in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 days.

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.

Although they look like German berliners (bismarcks in North America) or jelly doughnuts, pączki are made from especially rich dough containing eggs, fats, sugar, yeast, and sometimes milk. They feature a variety of fruit and creme fillings and can be glazed, or covered with granulated or powdered sugar.

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.

Are paczki better than donuts? ›

"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.

Any fried-in-the-fat pączki lover will tell you that a bismarck and a pączki are not one and the same. Nor is a doughnut and a pączki one and the same. Sure, they may look alike but that's where the similarity ends. Pączki are made with a richer dough that has more eggs and sugar and they're cut larger, without a hole.

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.

Grebe's Bakery

Additional flavors will include cinnamon sugar-coated apple, chocolate-iced buttercream, chocolate-iced custard, white-iced raspberry, sugar-coated raspberry, glazed blueberry, glazed sweet cheese, powdered sugar lemon and glazed prune. Pricing for all pazcki is $2.25 each or $25 per bakers dozen (13).

Our Customer Inspired Flavor "Strawberry Cheesecake"!

Fat Tuesday is celebrated with a traditional Polish doughnut known as a Paczek. The plural is known as Paczki (pronounced “poonch-key), which are jelly or cream filled pastries.

A bombolone (Italian: [bomboˈloːne]; pl. : bomboloni) is an Italian filled doughnut (similar to a Berliner, pączek, etc.), eaten as a snack food and dessert. The pastry's name is etymologically related to bomba ( lit. 'bomb'), and the same type of pastry is also called "bomba" ( pl. : bombe) in some regions of Italy.