Karpatka

Karpatka is an airy pudding cake—like a giant cream puff based on two craggy choux pastry layers meant to look like the peaks of the Carpathian Mountains. If you really want to get into it, only 10 percent of the Carpathian Mountains are in Poland—Romania is the winner, coming in at 50 percent—but maybe this cake named after the range pushes the stats in Poland’s favor. While karpatka can be round or rectangular, when cut in squares, the cake could be confused with