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Polish Aversana – Polish recipe of – Italian Cuisine


First of all, prepare the leavened dough, the brioche dough: place the flour in a bowl in a bowl and break the yeast over it.
Add sugar, lemon peel, chopped butter and egg.
Start kneading, then add milk and salt and knead until dough is elastic and well strung.

Cover the bowl with a clean cloth and let it rise at room temperature for at least 2 hours or until doubled.

Meanwhile prepare the custard: mix the egg yolks well with the sugar.
Add the flour and then the milk and the lemon peel.

Then cook over a low heat until a very thick cream is obtained.
Move it in a larger, cooler container, cover with plastic film and let it cool.

Take the dough again, deflate it with your hands, then divide it in half and spread it in two thin circles.

Place the first circle on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, add the cream and the cherries, then close with the second circle, sealing the edges well and let rise again for 1 hour.

Brush the surface with the beaten egg yolk and sprinkle with the granulated sugar, then cook for about 25-30 minutes in a preheated static oven at 180 ° C.

The Polish aversana is ready, let it cool well before cutting it and serving it.

Polish Aversana – Polish recipe of – Italian Cuisine


First of all, prepare the leavened dough, the brioche dough: place the flour in a bowl in a bowl and break the yeast over it.
Add sugar, lemon peel, chopped butter and egg.
Start kneading, then add milk and salt and knead until dough is elastic and well strung.

Cover the bowl with a clean cloth and let it rise at room temperature for at least 2 hours or until doubled.

Meanwhile prepare the custard: mix the egg yolks well with the sugar.
Add the flour and then the milk and the lemon peel.

Then cook over a low heat until a very thick cream is obtained.
Move it in a larger, cooler container, cover with plastic film and let it cool.

Take the dough again, deflate it with your hands, then divide it in half and spread it in two thin circles.

Place the first circle on a baking sheet covered with parchment paper, add the cream and the cherries, then close with the second circle, sealing the edges well and let rise again for 1 hour.

Brush the surface with the beaten egg yolk and sprinkle with the granulated sugar, then cook for about 25-30 minutes in a preheated static oven at 180 ° C.

The Polish aversana is ready, let it cool well before cutting it and serving it.

Babka: the Polish Easter cake – Italian Cuisine

Babka: the Polish Easter cake


A sweet, glazed donut, typical of Polish Easter: this is the Babka recipe, a very sweet tradition

If you look for the Babka recipe online, you will certainly come across two very different preparations. One is that of a cake made from leavened dough, woven and soft, with a delicious filling of chocolate and butter.
If you are interested in the chocolate babka recipe read Babka: the delicious chocolate weaving.
The other is this high and soft donut that is prepared in Poland to celebrate Easter.
There Babka Wielkanocna, this is the original name, it is a cake that is prepared with very simple ingredients and can be enriched in many ways, with cocoa, candied fruit and with gassa as decoration.
Here is the classic recipe.

Babka recipe

Sift 150 grams of 00 flour, 100 grams of potato starch and 1 packet of baking powder.
Allow 200 g of butter to soften at room temperature and then mix it with 200 g of icing sugar and 4 egg yolks.
Add the flour and baking powder and then the almond extract, 50 grams of sour cream, the juice of a lemon and a handful of raisins (optional).
Finally mix everything very slowly with 4 beaten egg whites with 20 grams of sugar.
Pour everything into a well-buttered daisy ring-shaped mold and sprinkle with breadcrumbs.
Bake at 180 degrees for about 40 minutes.
Allow to cool before turning the cake away and then decorate with a glaze of icing sugar and lemon juice.

Chocolate version

There is an even more delicious version of this dessert ideal for chocolate lovers.
Just add the white or dark chocolate mixture melted in a bain-marie and let it cool. 50 gr.
Or you can also sift together two flour spoons of bitter cocoa.
In this case the perfect icing is the one prepared with fresh cream and chocolate, a classic ganache.
Adding chocolate to the dough or decoration is a great idea to creatively recycle chocolate eggs.

Easter decorations

Being a typical Easter recipe, bring it to the table with the right decorations.
You can then add chocolate eggs around the donut, also glazed and colored, or shortbread bunnies and then add almond flakes to add an extra touch of color.
Choose light and pastel colors for the decorations.

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