Chods cakes

Traditional cake from Chodsko, which is in south-west part of the Czech Republic

Ingredients

flour (whole grain)………………………………………… 1 kg
powdered sugar…………………………………………. 200 g
yeast………………………………………………………….. 60 g
butter………………………………………………………. 250 g
salt……………………………………………………………. 10 g
yolks………………………………………………………………. 6
vanila sugar…………………………………………………. 20 g
rum…………………………………………………….. 2 spoons
warm milk……………………………………………….. 400 ml
almonds (peeld and cut to slices)
raisins (marinaded in rum)

Additions

baking paper
3 confectioners decorative bags with thin halfcentimeter tubes and 3 bags with a wider star-like decoration
a mix of vanila and powdered sugar for sprinkle
whisked eggs for needs of the sides of the cakes

Procedure

Leave the yeast in a bit of warm milk with a bit of flour and sugar for it to rise.
Sift flour to the bowl, add yolks and all dry ingredients. Melt the butter, mix with mikl and together with leaven and flour to prepare the dough.
Knead the dough thoroughly. It must be shiny with bubbles on the surface.
Cover it by the dish towel and keep it rise about 2 hours.
During the rising knead the dough two times, it is better for the work of yeast (the dough absorve the air).
During the rising of the dough, prepare the filling for the cakes

Divide the dought to small pieces and on baking paper we roll the dought from the center to the border (we will make circles with thicker border).

Spred the whisked eggs over the border.
Add the filling to the cake. There are three types of filling:
- “Dolský cake” – Add the cream cheese filling over whole cake and decorate it by the plum butter or poppy filling (ornaments with thickness about 0,5 cm). After baking pour cream on it and add powdered or vanila sugar.
- “Domažlice cakes” – decorate it by strips of plum butter and poppy filling (between it must be strip of cream cheese filling).
Decorate the cake by almonds and raisins (marinaded in rum).
Bake it in well-warmed oven to have pink color.

Cream cheese fililng

Fat soft cream cheese…………………………………. 1,5 kg
eggs………………………………………………………………. 3
powdered sugar…………………………………………. 250 g
rum…………………………………………………….. 5 spoons

Mix the cream cheese with yolks, sugar and rum. In the end mix with whipped egg white.

Poppy filling

Poppy seeds (soft grinded)……………………………. 200 g
milk……………………………………………………….. 250 ml
rum…………………………………………………….. 2 spoons
honey………………………………………………….. 2 spoons
sugar……………………………………………………. 1 spoon
vanila sugar…………………………………………………….. 1
grinded clove…………………………………………. 4 pieces

Cook the poppy seed with milk, powdered and vanilla sugar and honey. In the end add grinded clove. The consistency of this filling must be good for decorating.