Orzeszki drażetki

Name: Orzeszki drażetki
Pronunciation: ɔˈʒɛʃkʲi draˈʒɛtkʲi
Translation: Nut drops
Producer: Skawa Wadowice
Weight: 70 g/2.47 oz
Price: 2.00 PLN/$ 0.60/€ 0.46/£ 0.36
Energy: 497 kcal/3.5 oz (100 g)

Ingredients: sugar, peanuts 38%, hydrogenated vegetable fat, skimmed milk powder, wafers (wheat flour, potato starch, soybean oil, salt), whole milk powder, colouring: ammonia caramel E150c, glucose syrup, fat-reduced cocoa powder, spirit, glazing agent: beeswax, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavour.

Orzeszki drażetki are a very popular type of drops in Poland. These are peanuts covered with wafer mass and dark chocolate. They’re eaten as a snack, especially by children at schools (but also by adults who like to recollect their school-years!).

Cebularz

Name: Cebularz
Pronunciation: ʦ̑ɛbuˈlaʃ
Translation: onioner
Energy: approx. 220 kcal

Ingredients: Pastry: wheat flour, milk, butter, yeast, salt.
Filling: onions, poppy seeds, canola oil, salt.

Cebularz is a very popular snack from the Lublin area. It can be bought in almost every bakery there and very often serves as second breakfast or lunch (it tastes best when still warm with melting butter on top, for instance). It’s a yeast savoury cake with onion and poppy topping.

Babka marmurkowa

Name: Babka marmurkowa
Pronunciation: ˈbapka marmurˈkɔva
Translation: marbled cake
Energy: approx. 175 kcal per serving

Ingredients: wheat flour, eggs, sugar, butter, cocoa, baking powder.

Babka marmurkowa is a flagship cake baked to be enjoyed with a cup of tea.  It is simple, soft and looks very nice with its two-colour intertwining layers.

Wuzetka

Name: Wuzetka
Pronunciation: vu’zɛtka
Translation: acronym (WZ) with a diminutive suffix -ka, or acronym WZK (explained below)
Energy: approx. 245 kcal per serving

Ingredients: Pastry: eggs, sugar, wheat flour, vegetable oil, potato starch, cocoa.
Filling: rose petals, sugar.
Filling: cream.

Wuzetka is a cocoa sponge cake filled with a tick layer of whipped cream and a touch of rose jam. It’s served at the majority of confectioneries and cafés in Poland since the 1940s, typically with a cup of coffee. There are two theories concerning its name; the first one states that it comes from the East-West Road in Warsaw (Polish: Trasa Wschód-Zachód or W-Z). The second theory says that its original name was a cake with cream (Polish: Wypiek Z Kremem), and it got acronymised to WZK.

Wafle/Piszinger

Name: Wafle/Piszinger
Pronunciation: ˈvaflɛ/pʲiˈʃingɛr
Translation: wafers/Pischinger (from German)
Energy: approx. 80 kcal per slice

Ingredients: Wafers: wheat flour, vegetable oil, baking powder, salt.
Kajmak filling: milk, sugar, butter.
Chocolate filling: butter, cocoa, sugar, water.
Black currant jam: black currants, sugar.

Wafle consist of layers of wafers with various fillings: kajmak (dulce de leche), chocolate, jam, etc. They’re known under a German name piszinger in the south of Poland (the former territories of the Austrian rule). Since their preparation is simple and quick, they are very often served as sweet snacks across the country.

E.Wedel Biała

Name: E.Wedel Gorzka
Pronunciation: ɛ’vɛdɛl ‘bʲjawa
Translation: E.Wedel White
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz
Price: 3.90 PLN/$ 1.20/€ 0.95/£ 0.75
Energy: 564 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, whey powder, yoghurt powder, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavours. Cocoa butter min. 30%.*

*This information is not given on the package. I enquired about it at the Wedel Office.

E.Wedel Biała is a white equivalent of Gorzka and Mleczna in a classic Wedel chocolate bar series. It’s aromatic, sweet and creamy, comprising 30% of cocoa butter. Each of its 18 squares is decorated with an E.Wedel logo.

E.Wedel Mleczna

Name: E.Wedel Mleczna
Pronunciation: ɛ’vɛdɛl ‘mlɛʧ̑na
Translation: E.Wedel Milky
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz
Price: 3.30 PLN/$ 1.05/€ 0.80/£ 0.65
Energy: 536 kcal

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, fat-reduced cocoa powder, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, whey powder, lactose and milk proteins, hazelnut mass, milk fat, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavours. Cocoa solids min. 30%, milk mass min. 15%.

E.Wedel Mleczna is a milk equivalent of Gorzka in the classic Wedel chocolate bar series. It’s aromatic, milky and soft, comprising 30% of cocoa solids. Each of its 18 squares is decorated with an E.Wedel logo.

E.Wedel Gorzka

Name: E.Wedel Gorzka
Pronunciation: ɛ’vɛdɛl ‘gɔʃka
Translation: E.Wedel Bitter (in Polish dark/plain chocolate is called bitter)
Producer: E.Wedel/LOTTE
Weight: 100 g/3.5 oz
Price: 2.90 PLN/$ 0.90/€ 0.70/£ 0.60
Energy: 502 kcal

Ingredients: cocoa mass, sugar, fat-reduced cocoa powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier: soya lecithin, flavours. Cocoa solids min. 64%.

E.Wedel Gorzka is the most popular dark chocolate in Poland. It’s aromatic, shiny and semi-bitter, comprising 64% of cocoa solids. Each of its 18 squares is decorated with an E.Wedel logo.

Ciasteczka z maszynki

Name: Ciasteczka z maszynki
Pronunciation: ʨ̑aˈstɛʧ̑ka zmaˈʃɨ̃nkci
Translation: cookies from a machine
Energy: approx. 45 kcal per cookie

Ingredients: wheat flour, butter, sugar, egg yolk, vanilla.

Ciasteczka z maszynki are classic type of Polish cookies/biscuits. They’re made of flour, butter, and cooked egg yolks. The pastry is later processed with a manual meat mincer equipped with a special mould. The cookies are very crunchy and crispy, very ofteneaten as a snack with tea/coffee or milk.