- Mazurek (cake)
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Mazurek is a type of pastry (a cake) baked in Poland, particularly at Easter, but also at other winter holidays. It is generally decorated with icing and fruit and nuts.
Mazurek with chocolate icing
- Ingredients
All-purpose flour, sugar, butter or margarine, beaten egg (alt. egg-yolk), milk, salt, lemon juice, slivered almonds etc.
- How to make Mazurek
Preheat the oven at 200°C – 390°F. Stir together flour, sugar and salt. Cut in butter. Knead the flour, butter, sugar, with cream (or milk) and yolk (or egg) to smooth dough. Cover the dough and place in a fridge for 30 minutes. Spread out until ¼ inch or so. Pat evenly into greased baking dish (or onto rectangular forms, around 15 x 13 inches) and prick with a fork. Bake in 200°C.
- Chocolate icing
Melt the chocolate in a steam bath, add butter and cream. Pour the chocolate mixture onto the baked bottom of the cake, even out with spatula or a knife and decorate.
References
Categories:- Polish cuisine
- Cakes
- Poland stubs
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