Elitesse

Name: Elitesse
Pronunciation: ɛliˈtɛsɛ
Translation: —
Producer: Skawa Wadowice
Weight: 20 g/0.7 oz
Price: 0.70 PLN/$ 0.20/€ 0.17/£ 0.15
Energy: approx. 100 kcal

Ingredients: chocolate 32% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifiers: soya lecithin, E 476, flavours), wheat flour, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable fat, whole milk powder, fat-reduced cocoa powder 2.4%, skimmed milk powder, potato starch, emulsifier: soya lecithin, vegetable oil, raising agents (sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate), salt.

Elitesse is a flagship product of Skawa, a confectionery manufacturer founded in 1921 in Wadowice (where Pope John Paul II was born). It is a wafer with cocoa filling covered with chocolate. Its distinguishing marks are its shape – an isosceles triangle, and the transparent wrap with yellow label. It’s been produced since ca. the 1960s. Today the wafer also comes in different shapes (rectangular, finger-like), flavours (peanut, coconut, toffee) and names (Eliteski).

Mister Ron

Name: Mister Ron
Pronunciation: ˈmʲistɛr ˈrɔn
Translation: —
Producer: Solidarność Lublin
Weight: approx. 10 g/0.34 oz per candy
Price: 20 PLN/$ 6.40/€ 4.80/£ 4.00 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 55 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, hydrogenated vegetable fat, whey powder, cocoa mass, skimmed milk powder, cocoa butter, cream powder 1%, strawberry powder 1%, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate E476 and sorbitan tristearate, flavours, colouring: betanine E 162. Strawberry filling: 40%, cream filling: 33%.

Mister Ron is a praline with two-layer strawberry-and-cream mousse filling, covered with milk chocolate. It’s very soft and smells of strawberries intensely.

Danusia

Name: Danusia
Pronunciation: daˈnuɕa
Translation: Danusia is a diminutive form a Polish first name – Danuta
Producer: Wawel Kraków
Weight: 38 g/1.34 oz
Price: 1.50 PLN/$ 0.50/€ 0.35/£ 0.30
Energy: 190 kcal

Ingredients: chocolate 55% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, vegetable fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E 476, flavour: ethyl vanillin), sugar, chocolate 7%, peanuts 3.5%, hydrogenated vegetable fat, starch syrup, skimmed milk powder, spirit, low fat cocoa powder, flavours. Chocolate: Cocoa solids min. 43%.

Danusia is a dark chocolate rectangular bar with thick alcohol-flavoured cocoa-peanut filling. It is probably the most recognisable product from Wawel. It was named after Adam Piasecki’s (the founder of Wawel) lover – Danusia, who worked in the factory in the 1920s. Piasecki came up with a unique taste and dedicated it to her. The picture of Danusia is still found on the package of the bar. Recently Wawel has introduced a new version of Danusia – with mint cream.

Koko

Name: Koko (Zakręcone Złote Praliny)
Pronunciation: ˈkɔkɔ (zakrɛ̃nˈʦ̑ɔnɛ ˈzwɔtɛ praˈlʲinɨ)
Translation: Coco [Polish word for coconut is kokos - koko is an abbreviation] (The Twisted Golden Pralines series)
Producer: Solidarność Lublin
Weight: approx. 15 g/0.5 oz per candy
Price: 28 PLN/$ 8.80/€ 6.80/£ 5.60 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 75 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa mass, hydrogenated vegetable fat, whey powder, shredded coconut 6%, cocoa butter, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate E476 and sorbitan tristearate E 492, flavours. Chocolate: 50%.

Koko is a member of the Zakręcone Złote Praliny series from Solidarność. It’s a hill-shaped (just like all other Golden Pralines) dark chocolate praline filled thick coconut cream containing shredded coconut.

Andruty

Name: Andruty (singular Andrut) kaliskie/krasnal
Pronunciation: ˈãndrutɨ (ˈãndrut) kaˈlʲiscɛ/ˈkrasnal
Translation: Wafers
Producer: Rachoń/Andruty Kaliskie
Weight: 20 g/0.71 oz
Price: 1 PLN/$ 0.30/€ 0.20/£ 0.20
Energy: approx. 80 kcal

Ingredients: wheat flour, water, vegetable oil, sugar.

One bag contains a couple of smooth square wafers (diameter: 15 cm/16 in). They’re extremely thin and fragile. Andruty are said to have originated in Kalisz (nowadays they’re a regional product), where they used to be sold in a park. They’re similar to opłatek, a typically Polish wafer that is broken during the Christmas Eve supper while exchanging greetings.

Złota Wiśnia w Likierze

Name: Złota Wiśnia w Likierze (Zakręcone Złote Praliny)
Pronunciation: ˈzwɔta ˈvʲiɕɲa v lʲiˈcɛʒɛ (zakrɛ̃nˈʦ̑ɔnɛ ˈzwɔtɛ praˈlʲinɨ)
Translation: Golden Cherry in Liquor (The Twisted Golden Pralines series)
Producer: Solidarność Lublin
Weight: approx. 15 g/0.5 oz per candy
Price: 28 PLN/$ 8.80/€ 6.80/£ 5.60 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 70 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa mass, glucose syrup, cherries 9%, cocoa butter, water, spirit 5%, cherry concentrate, whole milk powder, stabilisers: citric acid and invertase, emulsifiers: soya lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate E476 and sorbitan tristearate E 492, flavours. Liquor: 35%.

Złota Wiśnia w Likierze is a Twisted Praline from Solidarność. It’s a hill-shaped dark chocolate praline comprising a whole cherry in sweet cherry liqueur. In Poland it’s very often given as a present in the form of a chocolate box.

Mieszanka Wedlowska

Name: Mieszanka Wedlowska
Pronunciation: mʲiɛˈʃanka vɛdˈlɔfska
Translation: Wedel Mix
Producer: Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: approx. 10 g/0.35 oz per candy
Price: 30 PLN/$ 9.50/€ 7.30/£ 6.10 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 48 kcal per candy

Ingredients*: sugar, dark chocolate (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E476, flavours), partially hydrogenated vegetable fat, glucose syrup, dried whey, dried whole milk, peanut mass, sweetened condensed milk, fat-reduced cocoa powder, dessicated coconut, peanuts, wafers (wheat flour, rye flour, sunflower oil, dried eggs, maltodextrin, invert sugar solution, raising agents: sodium hydrogen carbonate, ammonium hydrogen carbonate and sodium pyrosulfite, emulsifier: soya lecithin, salt, caramelized cocoa bean (cocoa bean, sugar), dried yoghurt, milk fat, acidity regulator: citric acid, butter, gelling agent: agar, flavours, enzyme: invertase, colourings: carminic acid, caramel. Dark chocolate: cocoa solids min. 47%.

*ingredients of individual candies are not given on the wrappers – this list applies to all candies and is found on the package.

The Wedel Mix started to be produced in the 1930s and immediately caught on. The content of the Mix changed several times over the decades. Nowadays only Bajeczny and Pierrot belong to the original one. The current line-up:

Bajeczny (Fabulous) – I dedicated one entry to the bar version of it. It contains cocoa filling with crumbled wafers.

Pierrot (Pierrot) – its bar version has already been described. It’s filled with cocoa and crumbled peanuts.

Manilla (Manilla) – milk and caramel mass. Its name is a reference to a bar from the 1960s. It was a chocolate block (something similar to chocolate salami), which used to be very popular in Poland back then.

Bałamutka (Lurer) – coconut filling with shredded coconut

Liryk (Lyricist) – milk cream filling with mini chocolate chips

Nygusek (Skiver) – Coke-flavoured jelly

Paryski (Parisian) – strawberry jelly

Dragon (Dragon) – spicy-flavoured caramel filling

Among the discontinued ones, the most popular were: Irys (Iris; dulce de leche mass), Rekord (Record; peanuts, caramel and nougat), Figiel (Prank; apple jelly and caramel), Wenecki (Venetian; strawberry jelly), Kawuś (Coffeer; coffee and cocoa), Wiedeński (Viennese; cherry jelly), Tarragona (Tarragona; Sangria-flavoured), Kokoladka (Cocolate; coconut and cocoa), Arachidka (Peanutess; peanuts).

Almondo

Name: Almondo (Zakręcone Złote Praliny)
Pronunciation: alˈmɔndɔ (zakrɛ̃nˈʦ̑ɔnɛ ˈzwɔtɛ praˈlʲinɨ)
Translation: Almondo [Polish word for an almond is migdał] (The Twisted Golden Pralines series)
Producer: Solidarność Lublin
Weight: approx. 15 g/0.5 oz per candy
Price: 28 PLN/$ 8.80/€ 6.80/£ 5.60 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 75 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, hydrogenated vegetable fat, whole milk powder, whey powder, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, almonds 3%, almond flour 2%, milk fat, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and polyglycerol polyricinoleate E476, flavours. Milk chocolate: 50%.

Almondo is a member of the Zakręcone Złote Praliny series from Solidarność. It’s a hill-shaped (just like all other Golden Pralines) milk chocolate praline filled with almond cream and crushed almonds.

Krówki

Name: Krówka (plural Krówki)
Pronunciation: ˈkrufka
Translation: Cow (diminutive)
Producer: Solidarność/Wawel/Jedność and more
Weight:  approx. 15 g (0.50 oz)  per candy
Price: 25 PLN/$ 7.80/€ 6.00/£5.00 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 60 kcal

Ingredients (Solidarność): sugar, glucose syrup, whole milk powder 10%, hydrogenated vegetable fat, skimmed milk powder 7%, emulsifiers: soya lecithin and E 471, flavours.

Ingredients (Wawel): sugar, glucose syrup, skimmed milk powder 14%, butter, flavours.

Ingredients (Jedność):  condensed milk 40%, sugar, glucose syrup, vegetable fat, flavours, salt,  emulsifier: soya lecithin.

Krówka is a fudge cream candy made of sugar, milk and fat. Beyond the shadow of a doubt, it’s among the most important Polish sweets. The candies can be divided into ciągutki (liquidish – fresh ones) and cruche (crispy – stale ones); both have their supporters and opponents. Krówka is produced by a number of other producers such as Mieszko, Goplana, OSM Opatów, Krakowski Kredens, and many more.

Złoty Adwokat

Name: Złoty Adwokat (Zakręcone Złote Praliny)
Pronunciation: ˈzwɔtɨ adˈvɔkat (zakrɛ̃nˈʦ̑ɔnɛ ˈzwɔtɛ praˈlʲinɨ)
Translation: Golden Advocat (The Twisted Golden Pralines series)
Producer: Solidarność Lublin
Weight: approx. 15 g/0.5 oz per candy
Price: 28 PLN/$ 8.80/€ 6.80/£ 5.60 per 1 kg/35 oz
Energy: approx. 75 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa mass, glucose syrup, hydrogenated vegetable fat, whey powder, cocoa butter, spirit 2%, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder, egg yolk powder, milk fat, stabilizer: invertase, emulsifiers: soya lecithin, E476 and E492, flavours. Chocolate: 50%.

Złoty Adwokat is yet another member of the Zakręcone Złote Praliny series from Solidarność. As all Twisted Pralines, it’s a hill-shaped dark chocolate praline. This time the filling is liquid, alcoholised, advocaat-flavoured cream.