HOMEMADE FLAKY PASTRY CAKE

For 8 people

Ingredients for the dough:

***240 grams / 2.4 cups of white wheat flour

***20 grams / 1.5 tablespoon of olive oil

***1 teaspoon of salt (leveled)

***100 to 130  milliliters / 0.42 to 0.55 cup of  lukewarm water

***100 grams / 0.43 cup / 6.97 tablespoons of soft butter or margarine to spread

Filling:

***500 grams / 2.2 cups of mashed curd

***10 grams / 2.5 teaspoons of vanilla sugar

***200 milliliters / 0.84 cup of sour cream

***120 grams / 0.6 cup of sugar

PROCEDURE:

Sift the flour, make a hole in the middle, pour oil and add salt. Pour the lukewarm water to it, mix all together and start to knead it for 15 minutes. After that make a ball from dough, spread oil over and cover it then let it rest for at least half an hour.

Then put the dough ball on a floured, large wooden table or tablecloth and roll it over to get thinner layer of dough and spread oil over it. After that, stretch the pastry with your hands and cut thick edges on the sides of it. Put stretched ball dough on a plate (diameter of 50 centimetres / 19.7 inches) and around it gently cut 6 layers with which you’ll cover the filling (see photos).

Now make filling from curd, sugar, sour cream and vanilla sugar, mix those ingredients together. After that you can start to spread the filling over each layer.

Tip: the same pastry you can use for rolls, dumplings, flat cakes, etc., but with different filling.

PUFF PASTRY DRILLS AND POCKETS RECIPE

DRILLS PREPARATION

Roll the bought puff pastry on floured cutting board. In small cup scramble 1 egg and spread it over the rolled puff pastry. After that add half of a teaspoon of salt and sprinkle it over pastry, do same with the grated cheese (add it as much you like it).

With a pastry wheel cutter, cut it in strips for a size of width 2 thumbs, length 20 centimetres / 7.9 inches. Now roll those in a shape of drills and put them on baking trays covered with baking paper. After you’re done, put it to bake them in a medium hot oven.





APPLE POCKETS PREPARATION

First roll the puff pastry on floured cutting board and cut it on equal squares (10×10 centimetres / 3.9 × 3.9 inches), after cutting put a single apple segments (use fresh and peeled apple) in the middle of the square and sprinkle them with a little sugar and cinnamon.

Now fold the square to get a triangle and firm the edges with fingers. After that, spread the scrambled egg over firmed triangles. Put it to bake in a medium hot oven.

 

Stuffing can be various: chicken meat, cottage cheese, fruits, vegetables, fish meat, spinach, chard, etc.

Note: some stuffing must be pre-cooked (boiled or fried).

This recipe is simple. You can make drills or pockets with different stuffing for all week, just after are baked, cooled them down and storage them in refrigerator. Now you can use them when you don’t have much time to prepare them from beginning.

 

Recipe 4 diabetics as well

WALNUT SNAILS (for diabetics as well)

 INGREDIENTS

♨ 200 grams of dark wheat flour
♨ 200 grams of white wheat flour
♨ 220 grams of soft margarine for baking
♨ 1 egg
♨ 100 grams of maple syrup
♨ 10 grams of vanilla sugar
♨ 150 grams of ground walnuts
♨ ½ teaspoon of cinnamon
♨ Grated lemon peel (1 lemon)

 

 

Preparation

 

 

Mix all the ingredients and knead it for about 15 minutes.

Then put dough to rest in refrigerator for one hour. After that turn on oven and preheat it at 180ºC / 356ºF electric oven or 165ºC / 329ºF convection oven.

Meanwhile make some snails (start as you would do walnut croissants and then swirl it). Then put walnut snails on a baking paper and bake it from 15 to 20 minutes.

NOTE!

Maple syrup is very healthy because it contains a lot of antioxidants and more than 50 active/nutritional ingredients, which act against inflammation, prevents development of diabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Walnuts must be rough ground, this makes cookies even more tastier/healthier.

A glass of white wine can greatly complement walnut snails.