Buchta ( Czech Dessert) Recipe
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Ingredients: 3 cups milk
2 yeast cakes
1 cup butter
1/3 margarine
1 cup sugar
1 Tablespoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 egg yolks
11 ¼ cups sifted flour
(filling of choice, apricot, cherry, poppy seed, cream cheese)
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Directions:Crumble yeast and dissolve in ¼ cup luke warm milk with 1 tablespoon of sugar and mix together. Then add enough flour from the above portion to be about as thick as cake batter. Mix well. Cover with aluminum foil and put in a warm place and let it rise to double in size. After dough doubles in size, add the rest of the ingredients and make sure to beat the egg yolks well. Knead with hand until mixed well and it is like biscuit dough. Let dough rise again in a warm place until it is double in size.
After rising is complete take 1 pound of dough and roll out to approximately 14 inches wide and 14 inches long (like a circle). Then spread filling like apricot, cherry, poppy seed, or cream cheese (about 1 cup to 1 1/3 cup) over the dough but not too close to the edges. Roll up to about 4 to 5 inches wide and pinch the endge and ends of the dough until completely sealed. Brush the top and sides with butter and let rise until double the size.
Bake on 350 for 20 to 22 minutes. After baked brush again with butter. Let cool and cover with powdered sugar or cream cheese icing.
Powdered sugar icing
Vanilla – a teaspoon
Powder sugar
Milk ( mix enough powdered sugar and milk until can spread easily)
Cream cheese icing
1 stick cream cheese
1 stick margarine
1 tablespoon vanilla |
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