Back Καρπάτκα Greek Karpatka French קרפטקה HE カルパトカ Japanese Karpatka Polish Карпатка Russian Karpatka Turkish Карпатка Ukrainian Karpatka Uzbek
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| Alternative names | Polish Carpathian cream cake |
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| Type | Cream pie |
| Course | Dessert |
| Place of origin | Poland |
| Associated cuisine | Polish cuisine |
| Main ingredients | Choux pastry, shortcrust pastry, cream filling, marmalade, icing sugar |
Karpatka is a traditional Polish cream pie with some sort of vanilla buttercream filling – aerated butter mixed with eggs beaten and steamed with sugar (krem russel)[1][2], aerated butter mixed with crème pâtissière (according to Polish gastronomy textbooks made from whole eggs)[2] or just thick milk kissel enriched with melted butter.[3][note 1] Professionally it is made of one sheet of short pastry covered with a layer of choux pastry with a thin layer of marmalade and a thick layer of cream in between.[1][2][4][5] Nevertheless, the version with two layers of choux pastry is popular.[5][6] The cake is cut into squares or rectangles and dusted with icing sugar.[1][2]
The dessert takes its name from the mountain-like pleated shape of the powdered choux pastry, which resembles the snowy peaks of the Carpathian Mountains – Karpaty in Polish.[7]
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.[5] The official name "karpatka" was first coined or recorded in 1972 by a group of philology students.[5][8] 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.[5][9][10]
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