Polish desserts

Gingerbread refers to a broad category of baked goods, typically flavored with ginger, cloves, nutmeg, and cinnamon and sweetened with honey, sugar, or molasses. Gingerbread foods vary, ranging from a moist loaf cake to forms nearly as crisp as a ginger snap.

A ' (; ), also known by the names Napoleon in North America and Post-Soviet countries, vanilla slice in the United Kingdom, and custard slice', is a French dessert made of puff pastry layered with pastry cream. Its modern form was influenced by improvements made by Marie-Antoine Carême.

Kissel or kisel is a simple dish with the consistency of a thick gel, and made of sweet fruit, berry, grains (oatmeal, rye, wheat), peas, or from milk. It is commonly thickened with potato starch or corn starch and may be served either as a drinkable dessert or as a thicker, jelly-like dish. It belongs to the group of cold-solidified desserts, although it can be served warm.

Šakotis ("tree cake") ( , ) is a national Lithuanian, local Polish (northeasternmost part of Poland) and local westernmost Belarusian traditional spit cake. It is a cake made of butter, egg whites and yolks, flour, sugar, and cream, cooked on a rotating spit in an oven or over an open fire.

'''''' (; : , ; ; Old Polish and ) are filled doughnuts found in Polish cuisine.

egg-based homemade dessert

dessert

Krówki (, plural; krówka singular), literally a diminutive form of the Polish word for "cow," are Polish fudge, semi-soft milk toffee candies. When hand-made, they are hard and crispy on the outside, but the inside is more fluid than solid.

confectionery product

Wuzetka (pronounced ) is a chocolate sponge and cream pie which originated in Warsaw, Poland. Its name is probably derived from the Warsaw W-Z Route, on which the confectionery that first began to sell the dessert in the late 1940s was located. Traditional to Varsovian cuisine, the dessert was exclusively served by cafés and restaurants in Warsaw, but soon became a beloved home-made food in Poland.

Babka is a sweet braided cake or viennoiserie that originated in the Jewish communities of Poland and Western Ukraine. It is prepared with a yeast-leavened dough that is rolled out and spread with a filling, then rolled up and braided before baking. Traditionally fillings included jam or nuts, though now include chocolate, cinnamon, fruit, or cheese. It can be made with butter, or to remain pareve it can be made with olive oil.

Makówki (, Lower Silesian: Mohn Kließla, , ) is a sweet poppy seed-based bread dessert from Central Europe. The dish is considered traditional in Silesia (southwestern Poland), where it is served almost exclusively on Christmas Eve. It is also popular in other parts of Poland as well as in eastern Germany, Slovakia and in Hungary.

thumb|Kremówka thumb|Napoleonka with egg white cream Napoleonka (; colloquially kremówka (), is a Polish type of cream pie. It is made of two layers of puff pastry, filled with whipped cream, crème pâtissière (according to Polish gastronomy textbooks made from whole eggs; some versions consist of melted butter) or just thick milk kissel enriched with melted butter, or sometimes filled with egg white cream. It is usually sprinkled with powdered sugar but it also can be decorated with cream or covered with a layer of icing.

traditional Polish Easter cake

Polish gingerbread

Polish sweetrolls

thumb|right|Racuchy topped with powdered sugar

pastry

Karpatka is a traditional Polish cream pie with some sort of vanilla buttercream filling – aerated butter mixed with eggs beaten and steamed with sugar (krem russel), aerated butter mixed with crème pâtissière (according to Polish gastronomy textbooks made from whole eggs) or just thick milk kissel enriched with melted butter. Professionally it is made of one sheet of short pastry covered with a layer of choux pastry with a thin layer of marmalade and a thick layer of cream in between. Nevertheless, the version with two layers of choux pastry is popular. The cake is cut into squares or rectang

chocolate bar also sold under the name Siesta

Polish dessert

traditional Lithuanian dessert

buttery, flaky viennoiserie bread roll

pastry