Karpatka is a traditional
Polish
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cream pie
A cream pie, crème pie, or creme pie is a type of pie filled with a rich custard or pudding that is made from milk, cream, sugar, wheat flour, and eggs. It comes in many forms, including vanilla, lemon, lime, peanut butter, banana, coconut, a ...
filled with vanilla milk pudding or
custard. It is sometimes composed of two different types of pastry; the base layer could be made of
choux pastry
Choux pastry, or (), is a delicate pastry dough used in many pastries. Basic ingredients usually only include butter, water, flour and eggs (auxiliary ingredients and flavorings are also added).
Instead of a raising agent, choux pastry employs ...
or
shortcrust pastry
Shortcrust pastry is a type of pastry often used for the base of a tart, quiche, pie, or (in the British English sense) flan. Shortcrust pastry can be used to make both sweet and savory pies such as apple pie, quiche, lemon meringue or chicken ...
and can be thinly covered with
marmalade
Marmalade is a fruit preserve made from the juice and peel of citrus fruits boiled with sugar and water. The well-known version is made from bitter orange. It is also made from lemons, limes, grapefruits, mandarins, sweet oranges, bergamot ...
and thick cream, then topped with a sheet of
choux pastry
Choux pastry, or (), is a delicate pastry dough used in many pastries. Basic ingredients usually only include butter, water, flour and eggs (auxiliary ingredients and flavorings are also added).
Instead of a raising agent, choux pastry employs ...
.
The dessert takes its name from the mountain-like pleated shape of the powdered choux pastry, which resembled the snowy peaks of the
Carpathian Mountains – ''Karpaty'' in Polish. The dish is often dusted with icing sugar.
The origins of the desert are unclear; it most likely emerged at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, but its popularity only became widespread in the 1970s and 1980s.
The official name "karpatka" was first coined or recorded in 1972 by a group of philology students.
Traditionally, one large slice of the pie was served with coffee or tea.
There are "karpatka"
baking mixes available in shops across Poland. In 1995, "Karpatka" became a trademark registered for a company called Delecta for the determination of cream powder in the
Polish Patent Office
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.
See also
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List of Polish desserts
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Wuzetka
Wuzetka (pronounced ) is a chocolate sponge and cream pie which originated in Warsaw, Poland. Its name is probably derived from the Warsaw W-Z Route, on which the confectionery that first began to sell the dessert in late 1940s was located. Tr ...
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Crumb cake
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Napoleonka
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Poppy seed roll
The poppy seed roll is a pastry consisting of a roll of sweet yeast bread (a viennoiserie) with a dense, rich, bittersweet filling of poppy seed. An alternative filling is a paste of minced walnuts, or minced chestnuts.
It is popular in Cent ...
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Custard desserts
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Choux pastry
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