Easter Kielbasa Recipe | Holiday Food Appetizers | Polish Traditions

A favorite Polish traditional food is Easter Kielbasa.  There's plenty of recipes for leftover kielbasa, if there are any leftovers ! Add to your charcuterie board!

Easter Kielbasa

Every Easter my mom would cook kielbasa which she would serve as an appetizer picky before dinner.

I've continued the tradition in my family, and now even my non-Polish extended family looks forward to me bringing the 'basa !

Easter Kielbasa is different than regular kielbasa.  To me, this Polish sausage is sweeter, and not so heavily spiced.  It's an easy Easter appetizer to bring to a buffet.

My granddaughter used to call them 'basi, but now calls them "Easter hot dogs."

The City of New Britain, Connecticut is known as the Polish Capitol.  Many Polish food stores and Polish restaurants can be found throughout the city.  There you can find all brands of Polish Kielbasa.

I particularly like the Martin Rosol's Polish Kielbasy which can also be found in local supermarkets in the meat department.  It has to say "Easter Kielbasa" on it, and it's only made for the Easter Holiday.

How To Cook Easter Kielbasa

My family method of cooking Easter Kielbasa is easy!  Simply place the kielbasa in a large frying pan, cover with water, and simmer for about 20 minutes.  Remove and refrigerate.  Then, simply slice the kielbasa and serve with traditional Polish Hot Horseradish mustard ! We also use the Bookbinders Stone Ground Dijon Mustard because the kids find the Horseradish Mustard a tad too hot.

Easy clean-up with my handmade crochet Dishcloths for sale in my Moomettes Crochet shops!

Check out our Easter Bunny Cake!

Other Polish traditional dishes -
Kapusta Soup (Sauerkraut Cabbage)
Golumpkii (Beef Cabbage)
Polish Pierogi

Happy Easter !

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Easter Traditions | Easter Bunny Cake Recipe

My youngest daughter has always enjoyed making this adorable Easter Bunny Cake to bring to set out on the dessert table after our family Easter Buffet.  It's super easy to make and starts with a Betty Crocker boxed cake mix!  It's a fun project for grandparents and grandchildren to create and use their imagination to decorate!

Every family has a holiday tradition - as I'm part Polish, we like to serve Easter Kielbasa as an appetizer before our dinner buffet.  Then it's on to the dessert after the annual family Easter Egg Hunt !

Easter Bunny Cake

Easter-Bunny-Cake-diagram

Easy kitchen clean up with my crochet handmade Dish Cloths from my Moomettes Crochet shop! These will make a nice Easter Basket gift idea too !

Easter Bunny Cake Recipe

1 box Betty Crocker Cake Mix (any flavor)

1 can Betty Crocker White Frosting

1 bag White Coconut

Decorative paper

3 jelly beans or small gumdrops

6 chocolate candy sprinkles, if desired

colored toothpicks

Heat oven to 350F for shiny metal round cake pan (or 325F for dark or nonstick pan). Spray bottom and side of 8 or 9 inch round cake pan with baking spray with flour.

Make cake mix as directed on box, using water, oil and egg. Pour into pan. Bake as directed for 8 or 9 inch rounds. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pan to cooling rack. Cool completely, about 1 hour.

Cut cake in half as shown in the bunny cake diagram. Put halves together with some of the frosting to form body. On tray, place cake upright on cut edge.

Cut out a notch about 1/3 of the way up one end of body to form head (small end) as shown in diagram. Attach cutout piece with toothpicks for tail. (If desired, freeze cake 1 hour to make frosting cake easier.)

Frost cake with remaining frosting, rounding body on sides. Sprinkle coconut over frosting. Cut ears from paper; pleat bottoms. Press ears into top of head. Use 3 jelly beans for eyes and nose. Add candy sprinkles for eyelashes. Store loosely covered at room temperature.

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