florentines at Cukiernia Irena

Blikle marzipan cake

blueberry pastries at Braci Gessler

  

If you are in Krakowskie Przedmiescie ( in front of the Presidential palace), stop by the window at Braci Gessler for some seasonal wild blueberry pastries (5 zł each). Down the street at Blikle ( on Nowy Swiat street by Chmielna and Foksal), they sell them for 4 zł.

Cukernia Irena & the best wuzetka in Warsaw

rurki

Braci Gessler Cafe

 

Braci Gessler Cafe is the newest venture of the Gessler family in the Hotel Europejski. The cakes are pricey (18 zloty, around 3.5 Euro) but delicious.  They also serve fantastic ice cream (3 zloty a scoop. The flavors range from traditional flavors like vanilla bean and chocolate to more unusual flavors like puffed rice (as pictured above), chalwa and wild fruits. Go there on the weekend and catch Mr. Krupa making fresh waffle cones for rurki (waffle 'straws' filled with freshly beaten whipped cream, 3 zloty each). Try a slice of the pistachio cake with a scoop of vanilla bean ice cream with a rulka on the side-- you won't be sorry.

Slodki Slony: sour cherry pastries

rhubarb tart

meringue pastries

 

Layers of meringue, cream and fresh berries .... delightful & pretty

pastries in lowicz

What better why to celebrate Boze Cialo? The best one was the one in the photo above, a French pastry bottom with tart red currant and meringue.

grycan