Kringla are soft, lightly sweetened Scandinavian cookies shaped into a loose figure-eight or pretzel form, baked until just set and still tender throughout. They are not crisp cookies — there is no snap to them — but rather something closer to a soft bread roll in cookie form, with a fine, slightly cakey crumb and […]

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Zeppole are Italian fried dough pastries — rounds of choux or yeasted dough, deep-fried until puffed and golden, and finished with powdered sugar, pastry cream, or both. The texture depends on the dough: choux-based zeppole are light and hollow, crisping at the edges and collapsing slightly when you bite in; yeasted versions are denser, chewier, […]

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