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Where to Get Your Paczki in Plymouth

Local bakery Sweets 21 and several grocery stores in town are offering up the rich pastries for Fat Tuesday.

Fat Tuesday is upon us, and if you're on the hunt for some paczki to satisfy your sweet tooth on this all-important day of gluttony, you really don't need to look much farther than downtown Plymouth, where is offering them up by the dozen.

"They're as good as anything you'll find in Poletown," said Sweets 21 owner Kurt Lienhard, referencing the nickname for Hamtramck, where most diehard paczki fans go to get the goods.

He said he has been taking orders all week.

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"The traditional prune and custard are the most popular," he said. "But we also do apple, raspberry, blueberry, chocolate for the kids."

This is Sweets 21's second Fat Tuesday since it opened in July 2009. Lienhard said last year the bakery sold 240 dozen. Preorders this year have been a little lower, but he hopes to see a big turnout Tuesday.

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Sweets 21 will open at 6 a.m. Tuesday to sell paczki.

"Last year we sold out at 1 p.m.," Lienhard said. "So my advice is to come early."

He's selling the paczki for $12 a dozen or $1.25 each.

Sweets 21 isn't the only place to find paczki in Plymouth, however.

is selling them in boxes of a dozen for $6.99 or a half-dozen for $3.79, and has them for $7.99 a dozen or $4.99 a half-dozen.

is also selling paczki's from the Looney Baker in Livonia by the half-dozen for $6.99.

On Monday, Vikki Elswick of Westland was checking out the display at Kroger, searching for lemon paczki for Norma West, 96, of Plymouth.

"She's a family friend and I run errands for her," Elswick said. "She's very traditional and she's got to have her paczki on Fat Tuesday."


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