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Austrian Buchteln: Pillowy Jam-Filled Sweet Rolls

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Buchteln are the Viennese answer to a lazy Sunday morning: soft, cloud-like yeasted rolls baked snugly together, each one hiding a pocket of jammy fruit preserves. Once you pull apart that first warm, buttery roll, you will understand why Austrian grandmothers have been making these for centuries.

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Austrian Krapfen: Pillowy Jam-Filled Doughnuts with a Golden Crust

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Krapfen are Austria’s answer to the jelly doughnut: impossibly soft, yeast-leavened pillows of fried dough filled with a bright stripe of apricot jam and dusted in snowy powdered sugar. Once you taste one fresh from the oil, still warm and fragrant, you will never look at a grocery store doughnut the same way again.

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