Pączki are Poland’s answer to the doughnut — round, deeply fried, and stuffed with rose hip jam, prunes, or custard before being glazed with sugar icing and finished with a strip of candied orange peel. They are richer than any doughnut has a right to be, the dough made with egg yolks, butter, and sometimes […]

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King Cake is a New Orleans institution with a direct lineage to European Epiphany celebration cakes. The French galette des rois and the Spanish rosca de reyes both hide a small token inside a festive cake eaten on January 6th — the Feast of the Epiphany — with the finder declared king for the day. […]

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