If you live outside the Midwest (or other parts of the country with large Polish-American populations), paczki might be a new phenomenon to you—and you’re in for a real treat! Paczki are traditional ...

ADRIAN — It’s been all hands-on deck since Sunday afternoon for employees at Morning Fresh Bakeries, who have literally been working around the clock to prepare and produce dozens of paczki. That’s ...

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A week before Lent begins, Big Y World Class Market bakeries are busy pumping out paczki. The Polish pastry paczki, pronounced "PAWNCHI-ki" (also POONCH-ki or PUNCH-ki), is plural for paczek. The ...

Paczki are magical, ethereal Polish mega-doughnuts that provide a super-stuffed fried fever dream of deliciousness in the grayest, most depressing part of the year — until they vanish. You can find ...

Ask Naperville baker Meghan Fiene what makes for a satisfying paczki and she says all the good stuff — lots of eggs, lots of butter, fried in house and freshly filled, down to pastry cream made with ...

On Tuesday, sweet yeasty orbs of glazed or powdered sugar-dusted pastries oozing with jelly, custard, or cream fillings will be front and center. Happy Paczki Day! Metro Detroit bakeries are working ...

The Polish eat paczki for the dough, not for the filling. Americans eat doughnuts for the filling, not for the dough. That was one of the lessons learned Saturday during Chef Dobra Bielinski’s annual ...