Buchteln
Credit: Tauralbus on Flickr Creative Commons
The basics
Brioche-like buns topped with powdered sugar and filled with fruit preserves, poppy seed paste, chocolate, or … other things.
Find it in
The Czech Republic and Austria.
The intel
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