Kringle is a long oval Danish pastry with fruit or pecan filling, baked from layered laminated dough and topped with icing, the official state pastry.
Danish immigrants brought the kringle to Racine, Wisconsin, in the late 1800s; by 1949 the O&H Danish Bakery in Racine was producing them at scale. The Wisconsin Legislature declared the kringle Wisconsin's official state pastry in 2013. Today O&H ships them nationally, but Milwaukee bakeries including National Bakery, Grebe's and Holtz also produce them, especially around the Christmas holidays.
3 editor picks for Kringle in Milwaukee, ranked by editorial score. All Milwaukee signature dishes · Kringle across every city.
Peter Sciortino's Bakery ★ 4.7
1101 E Brady St, Milwaukee, WI 53202
Peter Sciortino's Bakery on East Brady Street is the city's Italian-American bakery since 1948, with cannoli, biscotti, Italian wedding cookies and weekday.
National Bakery and Deli ★ 4.6
3200 S 16th St, Milwaukee, WI 53215
National Bakery on South 16th Street has baked Wisconsin kringle, paczki on Fat Tuesday and Polish pastries since 1925, with five locations.
Grebe's Bakery ★ 4.5
5132 W Lincoln Ave, Milwaukee, WI 53219
Grebe's Bakery on West Lincoln Avenue is a Polish-American bakery, founded in 1937, with babka, donuts, paczki on Fat Tuesday and a long South Side following.