A month ago I started this series on Polish food, where I decided to share a little bit about Polish sweets. I’ve sacrificed and bought a ton of sweets to remind myself how they taste like. If you are a food blogger, you tend to eat mostly what you cook/bake and even that it’s usually far too much. But that was for a greater good. After the tasting and photo shoot I bought the leftover cookies to the office and wow,I haven’t seen my coworkers running to the kitchen so fast. The cookies were gone in no time. I think it’s a good recommendation.
Jeżyki (pronunciation: yezickyorclick to listen)
Jeżyki arethe best biscuitsever, a crunchy biscuit topped with caramel and a differentmixof ingredients likeraisins, nuts, crisped rice, etc. Everything is covered with milk chocolate. Jeżyki are the cookiesthat actually made me create this series, because they are so good, that everybody should hear about them. Their nameliterally means little hedgehogs. Amielia, my Irish advisor, said that Jeżykireminds herof the Cadbury Picnic Bar crossed with the Nestle Lion bar! I also got aLion Barcomparison from Siobhanas well. Currently, they are available in dark and milk chocolate in a few different flavors –coconut, Advocaat, cherry, and coffee. To be fair, I was always faithful to coconut ones, but feel free to pick your favorite.
Łakotki
When I think ofmy childhood, the simplest shortbread cookies with sugar come to my mind. I think they showed up at our table the most often. They areperfect for dipping into tea.
Łakotki is a brand of simple, but cute cookies. Theone with sugar arecalleddeserowe, but there are also coconut, coconut in chocolate (my favorite, can you see a pattern ;)),buttery, buttery in chocolate, chocolate, and chocolatein chocolate.
Prince Polo, Princessa, and Grześki
Amielia pointed out to me that wafers are very popular inPolish sweets. That’s something I haven’tnotice, but she is right. So here is a selection of somewafers.
Prince Polo is another childhood memory.There were not too many barsavailable in shops in the 80s and at the beginning of 90s in Poland, so we liked what we had. Prince Polo was introduced 1955, so long before I was born. It’s a few wafer layers with chocolate filling covered in chocolate.It used to have thicker chocolate and only one flavor, of course as everything from the past it tasted terrific. Apparently, it is quite popular in Iceland as well.Now there is a variety of flavors, myfavorite ones would be classic and hazelnut.
Princessa and Grześki were just followers, they are almost the same, the differences are subtle, but you need to find your own favorite.
Rurki waflowe
Rurki waflowe are rolled sweetwafer biscuit, you can find them hollow or with different fillings, chocolate, coconut,vanilla, etc. In Ireland ice cream are often served with chocolate flake, I’m not really convinced, but I actually lovedipping those guysinto ice cream sundae. Try it.
There are plenty more sweets you should hear about, but I hope that’s enough to convince you to try at least some. If you have any questions, let me know.
I think next time when we will talk about Polish products we need to talk about something healthy like kasha, just to find a balance.
