Christmas Walnut Rolls

One of our favourite Bulgarian Christmas pastry. You can make it part of your Christmas Eve dining table.      

Dough:

1 cup flour

½ cup low fat butter

1/4 cup sugar

½ teaspoon salt

Filling:

1 vanilla powder

½ cup walnuts, pounded up

½ cup raisin

4 tablespoon rum

4 tablespoon honey

2 eggs

Milk

Preparation:

1. Knead dough from flour, butter, sugar and salt. Roll it out and divide into rectangles.

2. Blend the pounded walnuts with raisins, and mix with vanilla, rum and honey.

3. Whip one egg with 3 or 4 tablespoons of milk and spread the egg’s mixture above the rectangles. Add equal part of walnut filling on each rectangle and roll it.

4. Dispose walnut rolls into oiled baking dish and spread them with the other egg. Bake in moderate oven 360°F (180°C).
5. Dust cold rolls with powdered sugar.

Preparation time: 1 hour

Portion: 10

Bulgarian Style Cake

This sweet and downy cake is good idea for Christmas’ dessert. You can spread it with powdered sugar. It would be like a snow-covered. 

Ingredients:

4 eggs, beaten up

1 cup sugar

1 cup yoghurt

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1 baking powder

2 vanilla powders

1 tablespoon cocoa

2 and half cups flour

1 teaspoon baking soda

Preparation:

1. Beat eggs with the sugar and add the vegetable oil.

2. Pour a teaspoon of baking soda in the cupful yoghurt and add it to the mixture of eggs and sugar.

3. The flour and the baking powder are stir together and add to the main mixture. Add vanilla and stir well.

4. Warm the cake pan in an oven and put a cup in the middle, if the cake pan is round shaped. One-third of the mixture is pouring in the hot cake pan, while the other mixture and a tablespoon of cocoa are blending together and then pouring to the cake pan.

5. The cake is bake in a preheat oven to 300°F (150°C) for about 35 minutes. The first 10-15 minutes it is baked uncovered, after that the cake pan is cover with

Note: If you add more cocoa into the whole mixture, before you bake it. The cake will become extra brown.  

Preparation time: 10 minutes
Bake time: 35 minutes
Pieces of cake: 24

A Walnut Cake

Sweet and crunchy walnut cake with chocolate and lemon flavour.

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

350 g walnuts, grounded

9 eggs

1 lemon

Vanilla powder

For the cream:

2 glairs

½ cup powdered sugar

50 g chocolate

100 g walnuts, grounded

70 ml brandy or rum

For the glaze:

4 tablespoon cocoa

6 tablespoons sugar

2 tablespoons milk

1 tablespoon butter, molten

Preparation: 

1. Mix the sugar with grounded walnuts and add eggs (one by one), grated lemon peel and vanilla powder.

2. The mixture is spill into a cake pan and baked it in a moderate oven. When the cake is getting cold, it is sliced in two level pieces.

3. Make the cream from beaten up glairs with powdered sugar, grounded walnuts, grated chocolate and the brandy. Spread the cream between the two leveled cake pieces.  

4. Warm the milk with the cocoa, sugar and the butter.

5. The Cake is poured with the worm glaze. 

Preparation and cook time: 50 minutes

Portion: 12

Crème Caramel

Crème Caramel is classic and quick elegant dessert, but it is also the sweetest temptation.

Photo from Luxmedia.bg

400 g sugar

1 liter milk

8 eggs, beaten up

2 packets vanilla

Melt 1/4 of the sugar in a non-stick pan. When the sugar is turned into caramel pour it in the 8-10 small pots (cup size) and cover only the bottom. Boil the milk and add the rest of the sugar, the eggs and the vanilla. Stir well the mixture and pour it into the small pots above the caramel. Place the small pots in a baked pan. Pour 3-4 cups of water in the pan (sinking pots to the middle). Bake in an oven at 300°F (150°C) for about 30 minutes. Turn the crème over in a dessert plate. Bon Appétit!