Mazurek (cake)

Mazurek (plural: Mazurki ) is a traditional cake of Polish cuisine, rooted in the Polish Easter customs and baked next to the Babka for centuries to Easter. Its exact origin is unknown. Mazurki are relatively thin, of variable extent, tend to have rectangular shapes and are most commonly encountered as a sheet cake.

They are made from at least two different dough is always used as the bottom pastry. Outside the surface is always surrounded by a Teigkrone from Sandteig. On the ground, a second layer of dough can be applied, for example from Sandteig, sponge, sponge cake or Makronenmasse. Dough and puff pastry are unsuitable. Now the cake is baked and then with either jam or chocolate coatings of various kinds (including with cream, nut, chocolate or colored Fruchtkuvertüren ) covered and decorated, or it is already coated before baking with one or more jams and very often with a Sandteiggitter decorated. At the end of an Easter Mazurek is always still with dried fruit, almonds, coconut or Schokoladenstreuseln, frosting and other aids decorated and often labeled. Used to hold it must be left for two to three days.

Homemade Ostermazurki different sizes you give away in love to family, friends and acquaintances. They are also usually part of Święcone - the worn at Easter in a basket for traditional food blessing food.

The rest of the year the Mazurek is also available, but only in simpler forms.