Grandma's cakes
Yeast cakes are among the traditional sweet delicacies of Czech cuisine, which delight with their diversity. Everyone chooses the filling that they like the most, or comes up with a great combination of several of them. The only question remains: with or without crumbs.
Ingredients · Servings 1 dose
- 500 g plain flour
- 2 egg yolks
- 250 ml milk
- 6 sugar cubes
- 200 ml oil
- salt (as needed)
- 42 g fresh yeast (1 cube)
- filling according to taste
- 1 egg
Method · 40 min
- Prepare a sourdough starter from lukewarm milk, sugar, a little flour and crumbled yeast, and let it rise.
- Add salt to the flour and mix. Add the yeast, egg yolks and oil.
- We knead the dough and let it rise.
- In time, preheat the oven to 180 °C. Line a baking sheet with baking paper.
- Divide the risen dough into parts, form them into buns and place them on a baking sheet.
- We crush the buns with our palms and make indentations with a mug (or glass). We fill them with any filling of our choice.
- Brush the edges with beaten egg. You can sprinkle the cakes with crumbs.
- Place in a preheated oven and bake until golden brown.
