Pączki Day--do Dunkin Donuts or Krispy Kreme count?

It's a tough sell. People in corpo offices would never take a box of them to work, unlike in other countries. I suspect the ridiculous sweetness is also offputting for Polish tastes, yet it probably goes down incredibly well in the Arab world.

Subway is also struggling badly right now.

I wonder if there are any sugar free pączki to be bought anywhere in Warsaw, preferably with a different sweetener that makes the carbs not get absorbed or with small amounts of carbs. Cause it seems to me they have too much suger :(

(Had to enjoy something different yesterday and looked with sad puppy eyes internally while visiting Lidl a few days ago)

Why don't you have a go at making them? They're not that difficult to make and you only use about 50g of sugar to half a kilo of flour so they're not sugary. The issue is with the deep frying! However there are recipes for baked ones. Go on, have a go! :)

@Atch
Wish I could, currently renting a flat in Warsaw for a month before joining the army. Unable to bake or make much with the things I have right here, not to mention fasting until easter... :(

(I have to find about more about how it all works tho, can allways search how to make them only so far)

Ah, bless you :) If you're going to join the army, then you might as well treat yourself and eat what you want just for a day anyway. You should have had a doughnut yesterday. However, there's still plenty of time before Lent, which doesn't start until next week. You could do it the Irish way and have pancakes on Tuesday next week. We don't have Fat Thursday. We do Shrove Tuesday, day before Ash Wednesday and have pancakes, not those spongey American things, but proper French crepes. Here's an easy peasy recipe for you, the one I use, and they're yummy!

110g white flour (use tortowa or type 460, a light flour for cakes)
2 eggs
200ml milk
75ml water (you mix it with the milk so the batter isn't too heavy)
50g butter

Whisk the eggs. Put the flour in a large bowl and make a hole in the centre of it (the flour that is, not the bowl!).

Gradually stir in the eggs with a wooden spoon, pulling the flour down from the sides.
Gradually add the milk, constantly stirring so it doesn't go lumpy.
Ideally you should leave the batter to stand in the fridge with the bowl covered overnight. But you can just use the batter straight away if you like.

Before you fry them, add the 50g of butter, melted, into the batter.
Fry them in butter, just a teeny weeny bit for each pancake.

Then serve them with sprinkled with lemon and sugar for a classic Irish style Shrove Tuesday pancake :) or spread them with jam, or Nutella or whatever you like.

If you want to have them the Polish way, fill them with twarog sweetened with vanilla sugar. Return them to the pan for a couple of mintues to warm through and smacznego.

Now, write down my pancake recipe on a little piece of paper, fold it up, put it somewhere and carry it with you for luck. It will save you from certain death :-)) Seriously though, best of luck with your army life. Hope it works out for you.

You could try those sugar-free places:

slodkibez.pl/

sugarfree.com.pl/

@Atch
Thanks Atch! Who knows, maybe I'll meet some troublesome Irish lads during an excercise or something. Would make for a good story if they asked what that piece of paper is ;)

I got a notebook for recipes so I'll write it down no worries! Thanks for sharing!

I doubt it :) but you might meet them if you're sent on peace-keeping duties. Some Polish soldiers are serving with the Irish out there at the moment. You'll be under Irish command there though, so you'd best start practising your Irish dancing :))

@Paulina
Thank you! I'll check them out! So far I have been by Carefour and must say I was impressed with Bio section

@Atch
Good to know!