There are numerous ways to celebrate the holidays with cookies, including our favorite Polish cookies. Grandma’s cookies always seemed to taste better than everyone else’s, and we’ve been making her recipe for years. These cookies are sometimes described as resembling angel wings, and we can see why. These exquisite twists of sweetened dough, fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar, resemble wings. It’s also a great way to put a sweet twist (literally!) on a traditional holiday cookie.

Who can resist deep-fried dough topped with powdered sugar? The answer is: no one! These cookies are little more than dough and sugar, but there’s something magical about this simple little delicacy. We’ve made a dough, cut it into slices, and twisted it into a bow-like shape that many describe as resembling wings, and considering how rapidly they disappear, it’s as if they’re flying off the plate! Making these cookies is always a procedure that brings back pleasant memories and a few stories about family gatherings and fun times. As delicious as these cookies are, the memories and stories are almost superior.

Certain sweet sweets are frequently linked with festivals or celebrations, and these cookies certainly fall into that category. They’re not quite a “cookie” in the classic sense, but they’re created with dough and sweetened with sugar, so we don’t object if the term is used loosely to describe this delicious snack. Grandma’s Polish cookies are one of those favorite family recipes that we look forward to baking year after year, for both the pleasant memories and the delicious goodies.