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BONUS
Walnut
cake (Orahnjaca, Orehnjaca, Guzvara) (A traditional
Croatian Christmas cake)
Dough: (approximate measures, sufficient for
two big cakes filling a large baking form)
0.5 kg flour
200 g melted margarine
200 g sugar
2 eggs and 1 yolk
little salt
1 package of yeast
grated lemon peel (1 lemon)
0.25 l milk
Stir together yeast with 0.15 l warm milk and 1 soupspoon
sugar and leave it until the yeast becomes active. Then
make the dough with the rest of ingredients. Leave it
covered for rising for about half an hour. Then split
the dough into two pieces.
Fill:
500-600 g ground walnut
350 g sugar
0.1 l milk
grated peel of half of lemon and juice from 1 lemon
50 g margarine
4 soupspoons apricot marmelade
Bring the milk with the sugar to a boil, add the walnuts
and cook 0.5-1 minute while mixing. Finish cooking and
add other ingredients.
Preparation: Roll out the dough according to
the dimensions of the baking form, butter it with melted
margarine, and spread the half of the fill. Roll in.
Repeat with another dough. Leave covered for rising.
Preheat the oven to 130oC. Bake at the beginning at
130-150oC, and then continue at 170-180oC until it is
done. It takes about 35 minutes. Baked cake should be
well powder with a mixture of icing sugar and vanilla
sugar.
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