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Filled Pie

Plăcintă

A thin-dough filled pie baked or pan-fried until crisp, with curd, cabbage, pumpkin, apple, walnut, or sour-cherry fillings depending on the season and household.

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Fried Cheese Doughnuts

Papanași

Rounds of sweetened curd cheese dough deep-fried, stacked with a small ball on top, and served under sour cream and sour cherry jam.

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Romanian Doughnuts

Gogoși

Discs of yeasted dough deep-fried and dusted with icing sugar, sometimes filled with jam or chocolate.

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Saints' Day Pastries

Mucenici

Figure-of-eight shapes made either as boiled dough in sweet walnut syrup in the south or as baked sweet bread in the north.

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Sweet Cheese Parcels

Brânzoaice

Squares of soft yeasted dough with the corners folded in over sweet curd cheese and raisins, baked until golden.

🇲🇩Moldova

Vertută

A rope of paper-thin stretched dough filled with curd, pumpkin, apple or walnut, coiled into a spiral and baked until the outer turns crisp.