Slovenian Cake (Koroška Šarkel)

Ingredients:

500 g flour

100 g butter

3 egg yolks

200 - 300 ml milk

30 g yeast

100 g sugar

Salt

Filling:

200 g raisins

1 tsp cinnamon powder

100 g sugar

Cooking Instructions:

Prepare the yeast: mix it with two teaspoons of flour, 1 teaspoon of sugar and 50 ml milk. Put in a warm place to rise.

Stir the butter with the sugar and egg yolks until smooth. Add flour, milk and salt then mix; finally, add the yeast. Knead thoroughly for 10 minutes and allow to rise. Put the dough on a board sprinkled with flour, and roll out to a thickness of 1 cm. Sprinkle the dough with the raisins, cinnamon and sugar, roll it and place in a special šarkelj baking tin. Allow the dough to rise again in the tin. Baste with whisked eggs (including the whites) and bake in a medium hot oven.

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