Gogoşi are a sweet traditionnal pastries to Romanian cuisine

Romanian cuisine

Romanian cuisine is a diverse blend of different dishes from several traditions with which it has come into contact, but it also maintains its own character...

 similar to doughnuts but without holes. Gogoşi is the plural form of the romanian word gogoáşă.

Usually gogoşi is a deep-fried piece of dough shaped into a flattened spher in oil like a pancake

Pancake

A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Most pancakes are quick breads; some use a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Most pancakes are cooked one side on a griddle and flipped partway through to cook the other side...

, with no hole, and are stuffed with chocolate

Chocolate

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, or filled with jam (strawberry

Strawberry

Fragaria is a genus of flowering plants in the rose family, Rosaceae, commonly known as strawberries for their edible fruits. Although it is commonly thought that strawberries get their name from straw being used as a mulch in cultivating the plants, the etymology of the word is uncertain. There...

, apricot

Apricot

The apricot, Prunus armeniaca, is a species of Prunus, classified with the plum in the subgenus Prunus. The native range is somewhat uncertain due to its extensive prehistoric cultivation.- Description :...

), cheese like urdă

Urdă

Urdă is a Romanian fresh white cheese made from whey of sheep, goat or cow. Urdă is produced by heating the whey resulting from the draining of any type of cheese. It is often made ​​into molds to the shape of a half sphere...

 or other filling. It's the most famous dessert in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

. They may be covered with powdered sugar.

Origins

Gogoşi have been known in Romania

Romania

Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea...

 since Classical antiquity

Classical antiquity

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, when Romania was a province of the Roman Empire

Roman Empire

The Roman Empire was the post-Republican period of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean....

. The first recipe of a donuts, the aliter dulcia, have been created by Apicius

Apicius

Apicius is the title of a collection of Roman cookery recipes, usually thought to have been compiled in the late 4th or early 5th century AD and written in a language that is in many ways closer to Vulgar than to Classical Latin....

 in his collection of Roman cookery recipes : the De re coquinaria.

Etymology

The word gogoşi may come from the Persian Gosh Feel

Gosh Feel

Gosh feel, literally, elephant ear pastries in Persian, is an Afghan and Iranian dessert dish made by shaping dough into a gosh shape, and cooking in oil. Each gosh is topped with chopped pistachios and powdered sugar. Gosh feel is often consumed with Afghan tea.Afghans also make gosh e feel for...

, literally elephant ear, an Afghan and Iranian dessert dish made by shaping dough, maybe when Romania was ruled by Ottoman Empire

Ottoman Empire

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.

See also

• Doughnut
  Doughnut
  A doughnut or donut is a fried dough food and is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet snack that can be homemade or purchased in bakeries, supermarkets, food stalls, and franchised specialty outlets...
  
  
• Berliner
  Berliner (pastry)
  A Berliner Pfannkuchen is a predominantly...
  
  
• Bombolone
• Fánk
  Fánk
  Fánk is a sweet traditional Hungarian cake. The most commonly used ingredients are: flour, yeast, butter, egg yolk, a little bit of rum, a sniff of salt, milk and oil to deep fry with. After the pastry has risen for approximately 30 minutes the result is an extreme light doughnut-like pastry...
  
  
• Krafne
  Krafne
  Croatian krafne or pokladnice, Bosnian , Serbian and Slovenian are desserts similar to doughnuts . They are round and usually filled with jelly, marmalade or jam. They can also be filled with chocolate, custard, or cream, but that is usually less common...
  
  
• Malasada
  Malasada
  A malasada is a Portuguese confection. They were first made by inhabitants of Madeira Island. Malasadas are made of egg-sized balls of yeast dough that are deep-fried in oil and coated with granulated sugar. A popular variation is where they are hand dropped into the oil and people have to guess...
  
  
• Packzi
• Sufganiyah
  Sufganiyah
  A sufganiyah is a ball-shaped doughnut that is first deep-fried, then pierced and injected with jelly or custard, and then topped with powdered sugar. It is similar to the German Berliner, the Polish pączki, or the Russian ponchik...