a homemade Polish mazurek tart. And when a grandmother sends her children gingerbread spices or instant pudding, it’s like sending them a little bit of herself. In New York, on the other hand, it’s ...

who was crowned Polish Countess. Both wore matching plastic tiaras, red dresses and white sashes. Customers traveled from Sloan, East Aurora and Hamburg for Mazurek’s pączki Tuesday morning ...

Fat Tuesday in Western New York is also known as Pączki Day, which is a Polish twist to Mardi Gras ... an agency oversight for Mazurek's Bakery in Buffalo's "Old First Ward" community.

Pączki (pronounced “punch-key”) are a Polish tradition, often compared to jelly doughnuts but richer and denser. At Mazurek’s, bakers have been working around the clock to meet the high ...

Buffalo's rich Polish heritage is alive and well on Paczki Day, when local bakeries fry, glaze and jelly thousands of indulgent paczki doughnuts before Lent kicks off. At Mazurek's Bakery (543 ...