Polish bismarcks or doughnuts, known as "pączki."

Last night we made pączki for our little boys. This is a dessert I remember fondly from growing up in eastern Pennsylvania. I made the batter, and my husband fried them up. Our little ones went crazyfor them! We could hardly keep them coming out of the pot fast enough. Hah hah! I think our oldest (9 years old) ate four all by himself!

Here's an online recipe if you would like one:

easteuropeanfood.about.com/od/recipestepbyst2/r/FunnelCakes.htm

Enjoy!!

:-)

The picture doesn't look like pączkies at all and pączkies aren't funnel cakes.

Pączkies (in Polish singular pączek, plural pączki) are jelly doughnuts (usually rose hip jam inside) with a sugar glaze decorated with candied orange peel.

You can see a typical pączki here:

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Looks like a Berliner Pfannkuchen: yummy

Wow, we enjoyed these often at home, and they were also sold at neighborhood fairs and festivals. I always assumed they really were a Polish treat. I guess it's just another one of those "Polish-American" traditions; not genuinely Polish at all. Oh well, they're still delicious!

Thanks for the links!

:-)

Well what you made doesn't look too far from faworki (a kind of Polish cruller).

kucharz.pl/images/faworki.jpg

The consistency might be something like gniazdka (my personal favorite Polish doughnut) made from choux pastry but usually glazed instead of powdered.

mojeprzepisy.pl/pliki/przepisy/przepisy/gniazdka.jpg

Heeeeeey, those look like german Spritzkuchen:

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double yummy

Polish influence on Germany, or German influence on Poland????

Either way, you are right: