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…
Posted by lubos Date: Saturday, July 10, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients: chocolate, cocoa, eggs. sugar, flour, honey, jam, milk, vanilla
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
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…
Posted by lubos Date: Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients: butter, cherries, egg, milk, rice, sugar, vanilla
Bear Paws (Medvedie Labky)
Ingredients: 1 yolk, 280g flour (about 2 cups), 220g margarine, 100g ground walnuts, 100g powdered sugar, 1 packet of vanilla sugar (about 20g), chocolate for cover (optional) Prep Time: 1 hour Bear paws (medvedie labky) is a cookie that is an integral part of any Christmas table in Slovakia. Although Slovakia is known for its kolache (koláče), elaborate sweet deserts found in cukráreň, the pastry shop, this type of a sweet is called krehké pečivo, meaning fragile baked good. It’s quite simple to make, however you’ll need baking molds. The form most commonly used is in the shape of a Read the Rest…
Posted by lubos Date: Saturday, January 9, 2010
Categories: Christmas and Holiday Meals, Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients: chocolate, egg, flour, nuts, sugar, vanilla
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…
Posted by lubos Date: Sunday, January 3, 2010
Categories: Recipes, Sweet Dishes, Kolache and Deserts
Ingredients: butter, egg, farmer's cheese, flour, fruit, jam, jelly, sugar, vanilla