It’s paczki-palooza for Naperville bakeries taking orders ahead of Fat Tuesday.
What is a Paczki?
A paczki is a Polish pastry that looks similar to a doughnut. However, it uses leftover sugar, butter, and flour and is traditionally made this time of year to indulge the taste buds one last time before the beginning of Lent, when many Christians fast or give up sweets.
“Then we fill them with different custards, jellies, whipped cream, and fresh strawberries and just enjoy that extra rich dough that we only have once a year,” said DeEtta’s Bakery owner Morgan Tyschper.
DeEtta’s to dish out thousands
Inside DeEtta’s Bakery are empty boxes piled high in anticipation of making upwards of 14,000 paczkis – all in a single day. While they’re taking pre-orders now through Sunday, they’re waiting until midnight Tuesday to make them, to keep them as fresh as possible.
Owner Morgan Tyschper says it was her Polish mother-in-law who first told her about the pastry. “I just thought to myself, I need to bring this to everybody because it’s delicious,” she said…