The Easter mazurka
Mazurek is a traditional Polish cake, which our grandmothers have been baking for centuries. Over the years, many recipes for this kind of delicacy have arisen - there are many ways to prepare a delicious mazurka. We present a few of them, which will satisfy the palate of a picky curator.
Walnut mazurka
Ingredients for the dough:
½ kg of flour
5 dkg of nuts
15 dkg of sugar
25 dkg of margarine
3-4 eggs
1,5 teaspoons of baking powder
Ingredients for the mass:
5 yolks
20 dkg of powdered sugar
6 flat tablespoons of potato flour
0,5 liters of milk
0,5 pudding bags
1 Cube of butter
Ingredients for the glaze:
0,5 butter cubes
2 spoons of cocoa
3 spoons of powdered sugar
1. Masuria cake:
We grind the nuts or chop them finely. Initially, you need to mix the eggs with sugar. On the dough board, chop the butter and flour, add grated eggs. Mix the ground nuts with baking powder and add to the dough. We earn ingredients, then put it in the fridge for approx. 0,5 hours. After removing from the refrigerator, divide the dough into 3 parts, we roll each one separately and bake it 3 pancakes on separate trays. After baking the pancakes, translate them into the mass, we put glaze or frosting on top.
2.Pudding mass:
Using a mixer, beat the egg yolks with sugar. Gradually we add flour and pudding. Add ¼ of milk to the mass. Boil the rest of the milk. Add the grated yolks to the boiled milk, stirring intensively all the time until, until the mass starts to "buzz". Set aside to a cool place to cool down. Then we grate the butter, to which we gradually add a tablespoon of pudding mass.
3. Chocolate glaze:
Melt the butter in a pot and add sugar and cocoa. We mix, we cook and cool it down (but yes, so that it does not freeze). Add to the boiled and cooled glaze 2 tablespoons of cold water.
Traditional mazurka cakes
Ingredients:
4,5 dkg of flour
0,5 butter cubes
20 dkg of sugar
2 eggs
1 a teaspoon of baking powder
The skin is rubbed off 1 lemons
marmolada
delicacies
In a bowl or on a pastry board, knead the flour with chopped butter and add sugar to it, baking powder and lemon zest. We knead the ingredients and knead the dough. After all the products are combined, put the cake in the fridge on 15 minutes. Divide the dough into small pieces and roll them out and cut out circles. Make small rolls from the dough, with which we stick the edges of the resulting mazurka circles. Put marmalade in the center of each mazurka. Place the cookies on a baking tray and bake them for approx. 30 minutes. Cool and decorate the baked mazurkas with dried fruit and nuts.
