Do your families bake any special Polish Christmas cakes? Got any recipes?
Polish Christmas cakes?
zetigrek
1 Dec 2010 #2
no we buy it and they are delicious :)
Dunno about you, but my favourites include makowiec, strucla z orzechami, pierniczki w czekoladzie and keks warsazwski. Of course babka drożdżowa z rodzynkami and sernik wiedeński are always good, although some may regard them as more Eastery than Christmasy.
zetigrek
1 Dec 2010 #4
makowiec
mmmmm... can't wait for christmas ;>
I'd say cheesecakes are for Easter and any cakes with poppy are for Christmas, but many people would have both kinds for both Christmas and Easter. Whatever. I'll stick to my family's traditions.
Polonius3, just google 'makowiec'. It's the most popular and traditional Christmas cake, I believe.
Polonius3, just google 'makowiec'. It's the most popular and traditional Christmas cake, I believe.
Let's not forget piernik (sometimes translated as gingerbread), but it originated as a peppercake -- in Old Polish pierny (nowadays pieprzny) meant peppery.
Some Polish familii I heard also regard murzynek as a typical Christmas cake. I wouldn't even attempt to translate that into English and risk getting the ACLU on my back. BTW some peeple say ACLU stands for ANTI-CLERICAL LOONIES.
Some Polish familii I heard also regard murzynek as a typical Christmas cake. I wouldn't even attempt to translate that into English and risk getting the ACLU on my back. BTW some peeple say ACLU stands for ANTI-CLERICAL LOONIES.
My wife always makes those for Christmas:
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Although it is still time, my industrious wife has already baked 2 poppy seed cakes and cheesecake.
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There is a problem, though - I like my cakes sweet while she - doesn`t. I tried the poppy seed cake and ate the piece politely to the end but without pleasure.
I should have bought myself poppy seed cake in the shopping centre yesterday - they always make them sweet.
I should have bought myself poppy seed cake in the shopping centre yesterday - they always make them sweet.
My wife always makes those for Christmas:
Does she make them in stock already in August?
Don`t look at the date of posting. Check the date of photographing. More reliable. Ha!!!
I did cheesecake and Zebra. Tomorrow cookies.
Ok, today I also cut out cookies that my wife was baking.
Poppy seed cake (two rolls), apple cake and iced gingerbreads this year. No cheesecake.
All home made, as usual.
All home made, as usual.
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Ron2
22 Dec 2025 #15
I like simple matcha cookies half-covered with chocolate, but they're not popular in Poland.
Papageienkuchen, a colorful cake baked only for Christmas Eve. Children always enjoyed it. Today, the children are grown, but the cake remains.
Bratwurst Boy 10 | 13082
25 Dec 2025 #17
....just some cakey joke:)
("Let them eat cake" because....you know "Stollen" = stolen, heh:)
reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1puo1tz/let_them_eat_cake/
("Let them eat cake" because....you know "Stollen" = stolen, heh:)
reddit.com/r/polandball/comments/1puo1tz/let_them_eat_cake/
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Stollen" = stolen
und hinter einer Kurve versteckt, hui..
Bratwurst Boy 10 | 13082
25 Dec 2025 #19
...I found it funny....but that might just be our famous german humour....:)
german humour....:
My answer contains two words that shouldn't be used in Poland. German humor is fine.
My answer contains two words that shouldn't be used in Poland.
That's right. 'Hinter' because it's too similar to Hitler and 'versteckt' because we have nothing to hide.
Bratwurst Boy 10 | 13082
25 Dec 2025 #22
....you lost me here.....what Hitler??? *scratches head*
*scratches head*
Polish humour. ;)
Bratwurst Boy 10 | 13082
25 Dec 2025 #24
Oh...of course! :)
My answer contains two words that shouldn't be used in Poland
These words are Kurve and hui.