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🇷🇴Romania

Cheese Pastries

Merdenele

Soft puff pastry parcels filled with salty telemea and baked until the pastry lifts, sold beside pretzels at street kiosks.

🇷🇴Romania

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.

🇷🇴Romania

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.

🇷🇴Dobruja, Romania

Placinta Dobrogeana

Plăcintă dobrogeană

A protected Dobrujan pastry of thin layered dough and cheese filling, coiled or folded before baking into crisp, flaky sheets.

🇷🇴Romania

Romanian Doughnuts

Gogoși

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

🇷🇴Romania

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.

🇷🇴Romania

Sweet Cheese Parcels

Brânzoaice

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

🇷🇴Transylvania, Romania

Vargabéles

A Transylvanian Hungarian dessert of thin pastry layered over sweetened semolina and apple, baked until golden and dusted with sugar.