Napoleonka
Polish cream pie with puff pastry and a naming dispute.
Napoleonka, also known colloquially as kremówka, is a Polish cream pie consisting of two layers of puff pastry filled with cream. It is a variation of the French mille-feuille, sometimes called Napoleon. The cake is notable for a long-standing dispute in Poland over whether it should be called kremówka or napoleonka.
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- Poland
- Main ingredients
- Puff pastry filled with cream
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Papal cream pie
On 16 June 1999 Pope John Paul II mentioned that after completing his matura exam, he ate cream cakes with friends in Wadowice, wagering who could eat more; the future Pope ate eighteen but did not win. Media coverage popularized "papal" cream cakes from Wadowice. The confectionery where he ate was owned by Austrian confectioner Karol Hagenhuber, who came from Vienna. Some speculated the original papal kremówkas contained alcohol, but Hagenhuber's son denied this, stating his father's cakes were non-alcoholic, made with natural ingredients using a unique recipe lost with his father's death. In 2007, a giant kremówka was baked in Rzeszów to celebrate the Pope's 87th birthday. The kremówkas remembered by the Pope were filled with whipped butter mixed with crème pâtissière made of whole eggs, the typical filling for karpatka.
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