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“Deep-fried dough pillows, fluffy and airy inside, filled with chocolate, jam, cheese, or cream.”

Gogoși

What the real thing tastes like

Gogoși (Romanian: [ɡoˈɡoʃʲ]), known as pancove in Transylvania, pampuște in Bukovina and crofne in Banat are Romanian filled doughnuts. Gogoși is the plural form of the Romanian word gogoașă ([ɡoˈɡo̯a.ʃə]). Gogoși are pieces of dough shaped into a flattened sphere that are deep-fried in oil and optionally dusted with icing sugar. They have a fluffy and airy consistency, no hole and are often filled. Gogoși fillings include chocolate, apricot jam, strawberry jam, cream cheese, or feta cheese.

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Gogoași are Romanian fried dough pillows—puffy, golden spheres with no hole, stuffed with anything from apricot jam to tangy feta cheese. Known by different names across the regions (pancove in Transylvania, pampuște in Bukovina, crofne in Banat), they're deep-fried until fluffy and airy inside, then often dusted with icing sugar for a subtle sweetness. The filling is where the real character lives: chocolate, cream cheese, strawberry—each one transforms the same basic dough into something distinctly different.

Order it here when it has

  • airy and fluffy consistency
  • versatile fillings
  • optional icing sugar dust

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