Posts Tagged ‘sugar’

Decorated Honey Cookies (Medovníky)

This recipe was sent to me by Margarete Minar, the author of Foreigner’s Guide to Slovakia. Margarete moved to Slovakia when she was 25 to teach English. Although at first she found the life there difficult, she quickly fell in love with Slovakia. “Moving to Slovakia turned out to be one of the most rewarding experiences of my life”, says Ms. Minar. “Now that I have married a Slovak (yes, I met him while I was working there) and have a bunch of wonderful Slovak relatives, I constantly find things that demonstrate the ‘foreignness’ that I still experience, even though Read the Rest…

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…

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…

Rice Pudding Cake (Ryžový Nákyp)

Ingredients: 1.5 cups rice (350 g), 4.2 cups milk (1L), 1/5 stick of butter (20g), 3/4 cups powdered sugar (80g), teaspoon of vanilla extract, 3 eggs, canned cherries or apricots, raisins Prep Time: 2.5 hours, but most of it is “hands off” Here is a recipe for the one meal that to me symbolizes childhood more than any other dish out there. This sweet rice and fruit concoction was on the list of foods rotated in Slovak elementary school lunch cafeterias. Boy, how much did I look forward to the day when ryžový nákyp was one the menu! The rich Read the Rest…

Rye Bread (Ražný Chlieb)

Ingredients: (these are just estimates) 3 cups all-purpose flour, 2 cups rye flour, teaspoon of caraway seeds, teaspoon of basil leaves, plenty of salt, sugar, milk, oil Prep time: about 30 minutes to get the dough ready, some hour or two to let it rise, another hour for baking Is there anything more delicious than freshly baked bread, still warm to melt the butter, sprinkled with bit of salt? I don’t think so. And the Slavs of the past shared this view, since bread and salt (chlieb a soľ) became the universal gift offered to visitors through out all Slavic Read the Rest…