{"id":15492,"date":"2021-10-10T11:18:29","date_gmt":"2021-10-10T15:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=15492"},"modified":"2021-10-10T13:14:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-10T17:14:13","slug":"pumpkin-caramel-kringle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ethnojunkie.com\/?p=15492","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Caramel Kringle"},"content":{"rendered":"

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My first encounter with kringler, the filled Danish pastry, occurred decades ago courtesy of an annual snail-mail catalog specializing in Christmas goodies that was headquartered in Wisconsin. (Racine is renown as the kringle capital of Wisconsin and kringler are the official state pastry.) In the year 2 B.C. (Before Covid), I wrote about Holtermann\u2019s Bakery<\/a> on Staten Island – they offered a rendition which, in my opinion, tasted as close to homemade as you can get from a store-bought baked good – and subsequently posted a face-off<\/a> between theirs and a version from Trader Joe\u2019s.<\/p>\n

TJ\u2019s product comes to us from the O&H Danish Bakery<\/a> in Racine, Wisconsin, a family business that\u2019s been making kringler and sharing hygge since 1949, so their Danish culinary bona fides are well established; their website touts over 20 tempting flavors.<\/p>\n

When I posted the challenge, a friend tipped me off that TJ\u2019s offered a seasonal pumpkin variety and I promised myself I\u2019d track one down. And now, two years later, it\u2019s “pumpkin spice szn” again and I finally made good on that promise. (In fairness, TJ\u2019s is pumpkin caramel and not pumpkin spice.) <\/p>\n

As Danish go, it was pretty good – sweet, dense, and doughy – but I\u2019d be hard pressed to identify it as pumpkin caramel <\/em>(or pumpkin anything<\/em>) even after tasting the subtle filling by itself, devoid of pastry or icing. Maybe if it were a multiple choice option – but even then the choices might have to be sufficiently disparate like a) pumpkin, b) chocolate, or c) fish to guarantee landing on the right answer using the process of elimination.<\/p>\n

But don\u2019t get me wrong: I\u2019m not carping. Alongside a cup of hot cocoa, it made a righteous breakfast that was a hygge harbinger of seasonal calories to come!<\/p>\n

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\nComplete and uncut, with a quarter for size comparison.
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