Easter mazurka

Last Updated on June 10, 2024

On the Polish Easter table you can’t miss Easter mazurka. It is an Easter dessert in the shape of a thicker pancake decorated with chocolate icing, dried or candied fruit, nuts, almonds … usually folded into Easter motifs. The filling can be nutty, chocolate, caramel or made of ground dried fruit.

Ingredients:

For the dough: 170 g of plain flour 100 g of butter 25 g of icing sugar 1 tsp sour cream 1 egg yolk For filling: 100 g of cream cheese 80 g ground hazelnuts 70 g butter 3 tbsp caramelized sweetened condensed milk Other: shelled almonds chocolate sugar icing and other confectionery decorations

Procedure:

Mix the solid ingredients together, then add the liquid ingredients, work into a dough

Roll out the dough on a floured work surface, cut out a rectangle about 20×30 cm

Spread the dough on a floured work surface, cut out a rectangle about 20×30 cm

Pierce the dough in several places with a fork, spread the beans on the dough so that it does not puff up during baking and bake in a preheated oven at 170 °C until nicely browned, let the pancake cool

Heat the butter and cheese in a warm bath

Make the filling; in a food processor, mix the softened butter with the cheese, ground nuts and caramel

Spread the filling over the baked, cooled pancake

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melt the chocolate in a water bath, spread it on the mazurka

Decorate as you like, forming different shapes for example with coloured sugar coating, nuts, almonds ….