{{Short description|Sweet crisp pastry}} {{Redirect|Chruściki|the village|Chruściki, Greater Poland Voivodeship}} {{Other uses}} {{Use British English|date=October 2024}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}} {{Infobox food | name = Angel wings | image = Faworki (close-up).jpg | caption = Polish ''faworki'' | alternate_name = {{lang|pl|chruściki}}, {{lang|pl|faworki}}<ref name="Behan"/> | country = Poland | region = | creator = | course = | type = | served = | main_ingredient = Dough and powdered sugar | variations = }}
'''Angel wings''' ({{Langx|pl|Chruściki}}) are a traditional sweet crisp pastry made out of dough that has been shaped into thin twisted ribbons, deep-fried, and sprinkled with powdered sugar. They are traditionally eaten on Fat Thursday in Poland, ahead of Lent.<ref name="Behan">{{cite web |last1=Behan |first1=Ren |title=Light & Delicate Fritters for Polish Fat Thursday, aka Doughnut Day |url=https://food52.com/story/21516-how-to-make-polish-faworki-angel-wings-doughnuts |website=Food52 |access-date=1 March 2026 |date=7 February 2018}}</ref>
In the United States, Polish-American bakeries in many cities, including Buffalo, Philadelphia, and Milwaukee, make angel wings.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Metcalf |first1=Allan A. |title=How We Talk: American Regional English Today |date=2000 |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |location=Boston |isbn=978-0-618-04362-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SsMUCl5j8X4C&pg=PA96&printsec=frontcover&dq=Chrusciki&newbks=0&hl=en&ovdme=1&ovso=1#v=onepage&q=Chrusciki&f=false |access-date=1 March 2026 |language=en}}</ref>{{rp|96}}
The Russian variation on the dish is referred to as ''khvorost'' ({{Langx|ru|Хворост|4=twiglets}}).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Gerhart |first=Genevra |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Russian_s_World/uN5fAAAAMAAJ |title=The Russian's World: Life and Language |date=1995 |publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston |isbn=978-0-15-501053-6 |pages=140 |language=en}}</ref>
==See also== {{Commons category}} {{Portal|Food}} * Klenät - a very similar pastry in the Nordic countries * ''Maejap-gwa'' – a similarly shaped Korean pastry * List of fried dough foods
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