This popular but slightly forgotten cake came into the limelight recently thanks to social media and raised a storm, as the recipe in question called for added fruit. Fruit in your karpatka filling? No more than in your napoleonka (kremówka) which are also varieties of the cream slice, though these do not have the obligatory wrinkled top choux pastry layer that, dusted with sugar, is supposed to resemble snow-topped Carpathian mountains. Agnieszka Bielawska and Elżbieta Krajewska consider.