Walnut Potica – Slovenian Nut Cake
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Ingredients for 12 servings (1 cake)
Ingredients for the yeast dough:
- 1 kilogram of flour, smooth
- 30 grams of dry yeast
- 4 egg yolks
- 300 ml milk, lukewarm
- 120 grams of butter, melt
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 2 tablespoons of sugar
Ingredients for the walnut filling:
- 500 grams of walnuts
- 100 grams of sugar
- 50 grams of butter
- 375 ml of milk
- 150 grams of breadcrumbs
- 1 pinch of cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons of rum
Other:
1 tablespoon of butter for the mold
1. Make a yeast-flour mixture
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)First dissolve the yeast in 50 ml of the lukewarm milk, add a pinch of sugar and 2 tablespoons of flour, mix and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.
2. Make the dough
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Sieve the remaining flour into a bowl, add the eggs, yeast mixture, melted butter, sugar, salt and lukewarm milk and work the ingredients into a smooth dough using the kneading dough.
If the dough is too sticky, just add a little more flour. In the opposite case, just add some lukewarm milk.
3. Knead the dough
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Then knead the dough briefly by hand and shape into a loaf.
4. Let rest
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Then put the dough back in the bowl, dust with flour and cover with a kitchen towel and let rise in a warm place for 60 minutes.
5. Chop the walnuts
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)In the meantime, finely grind the walnuts.
6. Mix the ingredients for the filling
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)For the filling, put the walnuts in a bowl, add sugar, butter, milk, breadcrumbs, cinnamon and the rum and stir to a smooth mass.
7. Heat the filling
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Now put the nut filling in a saucepan, bring to the boil briefly, then swell and let cool down a little.
8. Roll out the dough
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Roll out the dough into a rectangle about 0.5 cm thick.
9. Spread the filling on the dough
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Now distribute the nut filling evenly on the yeast dough and smooth it out.
10. Roll up the dough
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Now carefully roll up the dough from the long side.
11. Fill the dough into the mold and let it rise
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Grease a potica or bowl cake tin with a little butter and add the rolling pin. Now let the nut cake rise again for 10 minutes.
Then bake the cake for 60 minutes in a preheated oven at 180 degrees (top and bottom heat).
13. Fall out of the mold and enjoy
(Photo by: dolphy_tv / Fotolia)Let the cake cool briefly in the tin, then turn it out of the tin and serve dusted with powdered sugar.
Good succeed!
