Posts Tagged ‘milk’

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!

Poppy Rolls (Makové rožky)

Ingredients: 350g all purpose flour, 1 packet of yeast, 2 yolks, 2 tbsp powdered sugar, salt, 30g butter, 250 ml milk Prep Time: 30 minutes for baking Ala from Žiar nad Hronom sent me another recipe, this time for poppy rolls (makové rožky). Her mom made these and they look delicious! Start by preparing your standard leavened dough from all the ingredients, except for one yolk and the poppy seeds. Once the dough puffs up, roll it out into a circle, and cut into triangular wedges. Then roll these into rolls (just like when making the regular bread rolls), brush Read the Rest…

Honey Slices (Medové Rezy)

Dough: 600g flour, 150g powdered sugar, 2 tbsp cocoa, 3 tbsp honey, 50g (~half a stick) butter, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking soda Filling: 0.5L milk, 5 tbsp corn starch, 250g butter, 1 shot rum, vanilla extract, 1 jar of jam Topping: 200g dark chocolate, 50 g butter Prep Time: Two or three hours of actual work In this recipe, which comes from Varecha.sk, I show you how to make medové rezy, or honey slices. I have never made anything like this before, heck, it was just few weeks ago that I baked my first ever cake. If you had Read the Rest…

Bubbly Cake (Bublanina)

Ingredients: 4 eggs, 400g (3 1/3 cups) powdered sugar, 200ml oil (5/6 cups), 300ml milk (1 1/2 cups), 500g (3 1/3 cups) flour, 12g (2 tablespoons) baking powder, vanilla extract, blueberries or cherries, butter and extra flour to coat the baking pan. Prep Time: 20 minutes to get everything ready, 40 minutes for baking. Yesterday I baked my first-ever cake. It turned out delicious. The name of this cake is bublanina, which means, roughly, bubbly cake. It is a light and fluffy coffee cake filled with your choice of fruit. I used blueberries, but feel free to substitute whatever you Read the Rest…