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It was renamed papal cream cake, or kremówka papieska (kreh-MOOF-kah pah-PYESS-kah), when it was learned St. Pope John Paul II loved it. It is somewhat similar to a French napoleon, but kremówka is topped with a dusting of confectioners’ sugar instead of royal icing.
Karol Wojtyła, who later became the cardinal of Kraków, then Pope John Paul II, and now St. Pope John Paul II, would often stop at his friend’s father’s bakery to purchase one or two cream cakes after school. This is where his love affair with the dessert began, and it became so well known that the cake was renamed.
Polish papal cake is a light and creamy custard that lies between two pieces of puff pastry. Said to be St. Pope John Paul’s favorite. Roll out the piece of puff pastry slightly to blend the seam lines, keeping it 1/4-inch thick, keeping the rectangle shape, then cut in half. One will be the top, the other the bottom.
It was apparently during a visit to his old home town Wadowice in 1999 that Pope John Paul II mentioned casually how fond he was of the cream cake or kremówka that he and his school friends had often pooled their funds to buy from a baker in the town’s market square.
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