I know food isn’t the reason for holiday celebrations, but a abundance of yummy dishes certainly adds to the festivities and marks the day as something more than the ordinary. One of the nice things about having a house full of guests is that you can prepare multiple desserts. It’s so nice to have a choice and even better to have leftovers. Let me share some of my favorite Polish desserts for Easter, mazurki, serniki, bakba, other cakes and cookies.
Whatever combination of Polish Easter Desserts you decide to make, I want to wish you and yours a joyous celebration of resurrection and new beginnings.
Smacznego!
Lois
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Mazurek Królewski (Royal Mazurek)
— a short crust pastry topped with a lattice filled with jewet-toned jam and decoratd with sliced nuts or dried fruit
Kostka Alpejska (Cube from the Alps) — a thin chocolate sponge cake with caramel buttercream studded with crushed dried meringue kisses, topped with whipped cream and shaved chocolate that many find reminicent of a tiramisu
Sernik (Polish Cheesecake) — this version is made with homemade twarog, a farmer’s cheese, and studded with dried cranberries and topped with a berry sauce
Mazurek (Polish Easter Pastry) — a shortcrust pastry brushed with jam and topped with chocolate hazelnut spread and seasonal decorations
Mazurek (Polish Easter Pastry) — beautiful individual litte almond cheesecakes wrapped in a yeast crust
Makowiec Polish Poppy Seed Roll — a tender yeast dough wrapped around around a poppyseed filling
Chruściki, Chrusty, Faworki, Angel Wings — whatever you call them, these twisted little pastries are crisp, lightly sweet with powdered sugar
Kolaczki (Polish Filled Cookies) — a rich, soft crust, filled with jam
Cytrynowa Babka (Lemon Babka) — a wonderfully moist lemon bundt cake with lemon glaze
Mazurek (Polish Easter Pastry) — a rich shortcrust tart, topped with caramel and seasonal decorations of nuts and dried fruit
love it thank you!!!!
My pleasure, Krisha!
Proud to be Polish
A wonderful collection of calorie-laden fun! I still need to get brave and make the makowiec!
Thanks, David. I am the queen of calories.
i love you lois!!!!!!
I’m trying to figure out a dessert that my grandmother used to make it was a Polish dessert my dad thinks it’s called pineapple Cohen but I’m not finding anything about that if you could help me it would be wonderful
I haven’t heard of it, Corrine. Is it a cake, pie, cookie?
Try googling pineapple kuchen and see if anything sounds familiar. Recipes cross over borders a lot.
It’s almost like a pineapple square but it has a very light pastry in it the last time I ate it I was 13