Posts Tagged ‘farmer’s cheese’

Cookies (Koláčiky)

Dough: 350g all-purpose flour, 1 packet yeast (30g), 2 yolks, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250 mL milk Filling: farmer’s cheese, raisins, sugar Topping: 100g flour, 100g powdered sugar, 50g butter And here is the last of the three recipes from Alena’s mom kitchen. This time, it’s for little round cookies or koláčiky. This treat shares the sweet dough with the apricot cake and the poppy seed rolls. Roll the dough out and then use a floured drinking glass to cut out circles (like when making pirohy). Then top each with the sweet farmer’s cheese (tvaroh) mixture mixed Read the Rest…

Apricot Cake (Marhuľový Koláč)

Dough: 350g all purpose flour, 1 packet yeast, 2 yolks, 2 tablespoons powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250mL milk Topping: 100g flour, 100g powdered sugar, 50g butter Filling: farmer’s cheese, sugar Here is another deliciously-looking recipe Ala sent in. It’s for an apricot cake, marhuľový koláč. You start it by making the same dough used to make poppy rolls. Then roll the dough out to the size of your baking pan. Top with sweetened farmer’s cheese. Top with apricots and the topping made out of flour. Finally bake at 350F for about 30 minutes. Enjoy!

Tvaroh Slices with Fruit and Jelly (Tvarohové Rezy s Ovocím a Želé)

Dough: 200g flour, 2 spoons of baking powder, 80g powdered sugar, 1 yolk, 100 g butter Filling: raspberry jam, 1.5L whisked cream, 500g farmer’s cheese, 1 lemon, 20g gelatin, 20g vanilla sugar, 140g powdered sugar, fresh or canned fruit Prep Time: about 90 minutes, plus overnight for the jelly to set The greatest thing to come out of Slovakia (besides the beautiful girls) are the amazing sweets, or kolache (koláče). Just about every town has a pastry shop, cukráreň (derived from cukor, sugar). One of my favorites are these fruit and jelly slices. My dad’s friend Janka prepared them yesterday. Read the Rest…