The Sweet Polish Kitchen

A collection of traditional and modern Polish baking and dessert recipes including babkas, cheesecakes, tarts, pastries and all things sweet and celebratory. Ren Behan takes you from everyday baking to Easter celebrations in this comprehensive, modern take on Polish sweet treats, and draws on influences from across central and Eastern Europe. Honey, cinnamon, ginger, vanilla, citrus peel, cherries, sweet whipped cheese...

With these warming scents and flavours, Ren Behan takes you from everyday baking to carnival doughnuts in a comprehensive tour of Polish sweet treats. Traditional and modern Polish recipes include babkas, cheesecakes, tarts, pastries and all things sweet and celebratory. With modern twists and bold, folkloric styling, The Sweet Polish Kitchen will link traditional recipes with current trends, designed to bring the spirit of Polish patisserie and bakes to a new audience.

Poland's rich, multi-national cafe culture underpins these recipes, which draw on many influences; the first patisseries in Warsaw were opened by Italian and Swiss immigrants, and there are also borrowings from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Russia, Lithuania and Belarus. A new and delicious baking world is in your hands! ContentsPolish Baking Basics (crumbles, creams, useful ingredients plus pastry, and sourdough)Polish Classics (including cheesecakes, blueberry buns, yeasted buns with sweet cheese)Layer Cakes and Traybakes (plum crumble tart, hazelnut and cherry torte, raspberry and lemon cloud cake)Carnival: Deep Fried and Filled (doughnuts classic and modern, Carpathian Mountain cake, Apple Rings)Christmas, Easter and other festivals (bundts, marzipan crescents, poppy seed rolls)Pancakes and Pierogi (baked pancakes with cream cheese, lazy pierogi with cherries and cinnamon cream)Breads, Loaves and Buns (caraway and rye breads, Krakow bagels, carrot and apple loaf)Desserts, Sweets and Preserves (Adwocat liqueur, plums in chocolate, rose petal jam)