Soft Iced Toruń Gingerbread

The city of Toruń in Western Poland is famous for a very oddly shaped soft piernik—gingerbread. They’re called Katarzynki, but that name is trademarked by the town’s gingerbread factory. To me, Katarzynki look a bit like two-headed mutant snowmen, but regardless of what your gingerbread Rorschach tells you, they’re worth a bake.

Centuries ago, Toruń was an important and rich stop on the Hanseatic trade routes that went between Western Europe and Asia, hence it had a lot of th