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…
Posted by lubos Date: Sunday, June 13, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients: baking powder, eggs, flour, fruit, milk, oil, sugar, vanilla
Slovak Bread Rolls (Rožky)
Ingredients for 8 rolls: 2 cups flour (225g), 1 cup milk (1/4L), 4 tbsp oil (60g), 1 tbsp sugar and 0.5 tbsp of salt, half a packet of yeast Prep time: only about 20 minutes of actual work, two hours to let the dough rise, 20 minutes for baking If you have visited Slovakia, you surely came across little slightly-curved mini baguettes called rožky. These baked bread rolls are a HUGE part of Slovak cuisine. I have no statistics to back this up, but I suspect Slovaks get at least half of their bread in the form of rožky (plural Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Sunday, May 9, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Salads, Sides and Bread Recipes
Ingredients: flour, milk, oil, yeast
Lokshe (Lokše)
Ingredients: 6 potatoes, cup of flour, oil, salt, sauerkraut or jam with poppy seeds Prep Time: 30 minutes An indispensable part of the Slovak kitchen are lokshe (lokše, lokša singular). They are thin pancakes made out of potato dough that are baked on a hot plate or an ungreased frying pan. They are kind of like Slovak tortillas. These will be found on any Christmas table! You will also find them offered at Christmas markets held in just about every town during the holidays. Today I am again at my grandma, so I watched as she prepared a batch. Follow Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Monday, January 4, 2010
Categories: Christmas and Holiday Meals, Meatless Recipes, Recipes, Salads, Sides and Bread Recipes
Ingredients: flour, oil, potato, sauerkraut
Leavened Dough (Kysnuté Cesto)
Ingredients: 1 pack of yeast, 1lb flour (about 8 cups), two handfuls of sugar, water, baking powder, bit of oil Prep Time: 30 minutes preparing the dough, at least an hour to let the dough rise. I spent the day after Christmas visiting with my grandma Therese (starká Terka). She lives in a little cottage in a village some 30 km away from my hometown of Banská Bystrica. I was there just in time to watch her make three of the most typical home-baked sweets: tvarožník, makovník, and orechovník (farmer’s cheese cake, poppy seed roll and a walnut roll). These Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Sunday, December 27, 2009
Categories: Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients: baking powder, flour, oil, sugar, yeast