napoleonka
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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.
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- Napoleonka
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- Two typical kremówkas
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- Kremówka (slang)
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- Poland
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- Cream pie
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- Puff pastry filled with cream
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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.
In some places in Poland the cake is known as (roughly translated as "cream cake"), in others, it is called . This Polish "war" between names and has been subject to a satirical drawing by the Polish illustrator Andrzej Mleczko.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “napoleonka” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.