Delicious Easter:)

Easter is coming and so are traditional Polish cakes baked only for Easter. Such a cake is called ‘Mazurek’ and is filled with delicious filling made of dried fruit, nuts, almonds, chocolate, caramel or home made jelly. I have baked various kinds of those cakes so far, but the most popular at my home is the one I attach below. This is my brother’s favourite one, so every year he forces me to bake it J

Cake ‘Mazurek’ with walnut filling

Ingredients:

30 dag of flour

3 hard boiled egg yolks

10 dag of butter

10 dag of powdered sugar

1 package of vanilla sugar

1 egg

2/3 glass of sugar

2/3 glass of sour cream

¼ glass of honey

pinch of salt

2 glasses of walnuts (preferably hazelnuts or almonds or the mixture of various kinds)

1 glass of chocolate flakes

How to do it?

Sieve the yolks through the sifter and add them to the flour you sieved before. Then add chopped cold butter, powdered sugar and vanilla sugar. Kneal all those ingredients. When you finish, put the cake into the fridge for 30 min. Later put away 1/3 of the cake and use the rolling pin to make the rest of the cake (2/3) flat. The size of the flat cake should fit the baking tin. Put the cake into the baking tin and bake it for 10 min only, in temperature 100^oC.

Mix an egg with sugar, sour cream, honey and salt. Add chopped walnuts and chocolate flakes. Now use the rolling pin again to make the rest of the cake (1/3) flat and cut it into the stripes. Pour the filling on the baked cake, in baking tin. Put the stripes on it – make the pattern of a chess board. Put the baking tin into the cooker and bake it for 30-40 min. in temperature of 180^oC.

Bon appetit!