The pies, with cream puff-like crusts, are full of vanilla pastry cream, topped with four-berry filling and finished with whipped cream rosettes. Whole pies weigh a pair of.75 pounds, however slices are on the market for lighter appetites.
New this year at Achatz are baked, brioche-like paczki with pastry cream or four-berry fillings. At 260 calories every, they’re lighter than ancient deep-fried paczki, estimated at 300-450 calories. Achatz can have them in restricted quantities in stores Friday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, and “when they’re gone, they’re gone,” says Hillary Morgan, assistant manager of the Troy store. (Achatz locations are closed Saturdays.)
Rochester’s provide Thanks Bakery began creating baked paczki a number of years ago and has developed a following for them, says owner Gerald Matthes.
The store takes advance orders and sells them solely on Fat Tuesday. The dough is proofed in an exceedingly rounded form till it’s light-weight and ethereal and baked in an exceedingly convection oven before being full of Bavarian cream, lemon, raspberry, strawberry, apricot or chocolate fillings.
The Paczki Pie at Achatz is priced at $14.95. Slices value $2.85. Achatz baked paczki value $9.99 for six. provide Thanks’ baked paczki are priced at $1.50 each.