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.

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