Festive Recipe With Kim Jaye: Hungarian Zserbó Cake
Season 2, Episode 258, Dec 05, 2023, 03:22 PM
Looking for a new desert to try this Festive season?
Well, Kim has a lovely recipe that is sure to be a crowd-pleaser…
Ingredients:
Well, Kim has a lovely recipe that is sure to be a crowd-pleaser…
Ingredients:
- 250g of butter
- 20g of butter (to be used at the chocolate stage)
- 1 whole egg
- 2 yolks
- 100ml of whole milk
- 7g of fresh yeast
- 500g of plain flour
- 1 tablespoon of caster sugar
- 50g of icing sugar
- The zest of half a lemon
- 1 pinch salt
- 150g of ground walnuts
- 400g of apricot jam
- 300g of dark chocolate
Method:
- In a saucepan heat milk until lukewarm and dissolve 1 tablespoon of caster sugar and the yeast.
- In a large mixing bowl, add the flour and the cubed 250g butter by hand until it resembles crumbs.
- Add the whole egg, 2 egg yolks, the dissolved sugar and yeast mixture, pinch of salt and the lemon zest. Knead thoroughly. Add more flour if necessary.
- Divide the dough into four balls, cover and let rest for 30 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 180°C. Butter and flour a 40cm x 25cm baking tin.
- On a floured surface, roll out one part of the dough to the size of the baking tin, then lay it in.
- Mix the 150g ground walnuts with the 50g icing sugar. Spread one third of the apricot jam on the first layer of dough. Sprinkle with a third of the walnut and sugar mixture.
- Roll out the second piece of dough and place on top of the other layer. Put the jam on it and sprinkle with the walnut and sugar mixture. Repeat this twice more so that you have four layers of dough, each spread with jam and the walnut and sugar mixture.
- Bake the cake for 30 minutes, until the top is light-brown. Let it cool completely.
- 1For the chocolate layer, melt 20g of butter in a smaller pan with the 300g of chocolate. When melted, cover the entire cake with the chocolate sauce.
- Cut into diamonds and serve.
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