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.

DUMPLINGS WITH COTTAGE CHEESE AND WHEAT SEMOLINA

INGREDIENTS:

# 300 grams/1.36 cup of margarine

# 2 eggs

# 300 grams/1.31 cup of curd/cottage cheese

# 100 grams/0.57 cup/9.1 tablespoon of wheat semolina

INGREDIENTS as a final step:

# 30 grams/2.09 tablespoon of butter

# 40 grams/5.3 tablespoon of bread or biscuit crumbs

# 2 litres/8.45 cups of salted boiling water

PREPARATION METHOD

Foamy mix margarine and add two eggs, then add blended into paste curd/cottage cheese and wheat semolina.

Then mix it all together. Meanwhile heat up salt water, when it boils put in sculpted dumplings with a tablespoon.

Dumplings must slowly cook in an open pot for 10 minutes.

After they are cooked carefully pick them up with a strainer.

Before serving dumplings sprinkle them with roasted breadcrumbs in butter.

WAYS TO EAT DUMPLINGS

You can eat dumplings for a main course, dessert or side dish. For the children you can sprinkle over dumplings roasted breadcrumbs with a pinch of sugar and cinnamon.