Soft and sweet baked papanasi made with cheese, a traditional Romanian dessert served with jam or sour cream. Easy homemade recipe!

Papanasi are a famous Romanian dessert, boiled cheese dumplings and coated with crispy breadcrumbs. (in English below)

Cheese dessert served with sweet sour cream and jam. Very easy to make at home and ready in 15 minutes.
[in Romanian]

Sweet dumplings made with cottage cheese and semolina and coated with sugary breadcrumbs – Romanian papanasi fierti.

Traditional Romanian fried doughnuts – papanasi (papanash) – made with cottage cheese and topped with smetana and jam.

Cheese doughnuts or Romanian papanasi, best served with sour cream and any kind of jam.