TOLEDO, Ohio — Check out this recipe for Placek, or a Polish coffee cake, as prepared by Ella Dudek on Good Day. For coffee cake: Combine the warm milk, softened butter, sugar, eggs, salt, lemon zest, ...

“I was looking around in Knoxville and noticed there were a lot of doughnut and cupcake bakeries,” said Heather Houbre, who dreamt up the idea of Short N’ Stout with her husband, David. “I am ...

This recipe is from Laurel Kratochvila’s Dobre Dobre: Baking from Poland and Beyond. Reposted with permission. Read more about Kratochvila here. “In my house we never baked bread,” Łukasz Szlapa, a ...

The Carpathian Mountains inspire more than legends – Poland’s beloved Karpatka cream cake, with its billowy pastry and rich custard, stands out among a tempting array of traditional Polish desserts.

Kiedrowski’s Simply Delicious Bakery in Amherst, celebrated its annual Pączki Day on March 4 with homemade pączki, snoogles and other desserts. Honoring his roots, owner Tim Kiedrowski said the treat ...

If pierogi are the only Polish food you’ve tried, here’s a chance to expand your terrain. The London-based food writer Zuza Zak grew up cooking with her grandmother in the Polish countryside, and in ...

While some in Chicago will celebrate Fat Tuesday with King Cake and gumbo, many will mark the day by sinking their teeth into the soft and sweet Polish dessert known as paczki. Though the popular ...