Snack · 100 min · polish

Piernik Staropolski

This is the kind of Polish snack you’ll make on repeat — honey and sugar, 100 minutes, big payoff. It is weeknight cooking that still hits your targets — 7 grams of protein per serving. No specialty equipment and nothing hard to find at a regular grocery store.

✓ USDA-verified nutrition data

Ingredients

• 1 cup Honey
• 1 cup Sugar
• 1/2 cup Butter
• 3 Eggs
• 4 cups All-purpose flour
• 1 tsp Baking soda
• 2 tsp Cinnamon
• 1 cup Plum jam
• 4 oz Dark chocolate

Steps

1. Warm the honey, sugar, and butter until melted; cool to lukewarm.
2. Whisk in the eggs, then fold in the flour, soda, and spices into a dark, fragrant dough.
3. Rest the dough overnight if you can — old Polish recipes insist, and they are right.
4. Divide in three and bake thin layers at 350 degrees 12 minutes each.
5. Spread plum jam between the layers and stack.
6. Pour over melted chocolate and rest 24 hours; piernik mellows into something magnificent.

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