Walnut Cake Recipe as Polish Easter Dessert

Mazurek – An Easter Dessert Recipe

This walnut cake recipe is my mom’s favorite Easter dessert recipe. She makes this mazurek every year for Easter and even sometimes when she has a bigger party.

This walnut cake, one of many Polish Easter recipes, is very practical when you have a lot of people visiting, since you can cut it into bite size pieces.

That way, you will have fewer crumbs on the floor to clean up afterwards.

This Mazurek has a very intensive walnut cake, but if you don’t like walnuts or don’t have them, you can use pecans.

In the US pecans are much more common, and honestly I like them better, but in Germany or Poland they are very expensive and I end up using walnuts.

Anyway, I can recommend this cake to you because everybody who tries it loves it and it is usually the first one to go at Easter and parties.

I hope that you will enjoy this walnut cake recipe.

Walnut Cake Recipe

For the shortbread dough:
• 300 g flour (2 cups)
• 200 g butter (7 oz)
• 100 g sugar (3.5 oz)
• 1 egg yolk
• 2 table spoons of cream
• Pinch of salt

For the walnut topping:
• 150 ml milk
• 300 g sugar (7 oz)
• 120 g butter
• 3 tablespoons of cream
• 3 egg yolks
• 300 g grounded walnuts or pecans

Preheat the oven to 175°C – 350°F

Prepare the shortbread crust:
• Knead the flour, butter, sugar, cream, egg yolk, and pinch of salt to smooth dough. I recommend using the hook attachment on most mixers, but you could use your hands.
• Cover the dough with plastic foil and place it in a fridge for 30 minutes.
• Roll the dough until ¼” or thinner on a silicone baking mat, and if you don’t have one, use wrapping foil.
• Flip the dough onto a rectangular cookie sheet form.
• Prick the dough with a fork so that the steam can escape.
• Bake it at 175°C (350°F) for 15 minutes or until golden brown.

How to make the topping:
• Cook the sugar with the milk until it becomes a thick syrup.
• Take it off the heat and add the butter, cream, and the egg yolks. Mix well using an electric mixer.
• Mix in the grounded nuts and spread the topping onto the warm baked shortbread crust.
• Cool it for 24 hours before cutting into small squares.



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