The Dutch New Year pastry traditionally made with fried dough and often containing raisins or currants is an oliebol.
Oliebollen are round, deep-fried dumplings made from yeast-leavened dough. The dough commonly includes raisins, currants, or apple pieces, and the finished pastries are dusted generously with powdered sugar.
They are strongly associated with New Year's Eve and New Year's Day in the Netherlands and parts of Belgium. Vendors frequently sell them from temporary seasonal stalls during the winter holiday period.
Oliebollen are sometimes compared with doughnuts, but they normally do not have a central hole. They are also distinct from Dutch waffles and from German Berliner-style filled doughnuts, which are usually smooth, filled, and shaped differently.