Best 5 Mazurka Recipes

ROYAL MAZURKA (MAZUREK KROLEWSKI)

Steps:

• Mazurkas:.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Beat eggs with sugar for 10 minutes, until light and fluffy. Mix water with lemon juice, and add to the eggs in a thin stream while beating. Beat 5 more minutes. Add flour, almonds, and butter alternately. Mix lightly to incorporate.
• Divide batter between two 9 X 13 baking pans lined with buttered parchment paper.
• Bake for 25 minutes, or until golden.
• Cool slightly, then turn them out onto a rack to completely cool.
• Meanwhile make icing (directions below).
• Spread one cake with jam, cover it with the other cake and spread the icing over the top.
• Icing:.
• Stir warm water, lemon juice and confectioner's sugar together until the sugar completely dissolves and the icing is smooth. It should be thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Add more water if necessary. If you get it too thin, add more sugar.

MAZURKA BAR

Steps:

• 1. Adjust an oven rack one third up from the bottom and preheat oven to 325 degrees
• 2. Place the flour, salt and sugar in processor. Cut in 1/2 inch butter cubes with pulse mode until mixture resembles coarse meal. Stir in the coconut, oatmeal and walnuts, pulse to blend. Add the 1/4 cup of melted butter, pulse again.
• 3. Place about half ( 2-3 cups) of the mixture in an unbuttered 8-inch square cake pan. Press evenly with your fingertips. Cover with a piece of wax paper and with the palm of your hand, press against the paper to make a smooth, compact layer. Remove wax paper.
• 4. Spread raspberry jam in an even layer over the pastry, staying 1/4 to 1/2 inch away from the edges. Sprinkle the remaining pastry evenly over the filling. Recipe says to repeat wax paper thing but I haven't done it.
• 5. Bake4 for 60 to 70 minutes until the top is barely semi firm to the touch.
• 6. Cool in the pan for 15 minutes or so; be sure to cut around the sides to loosen from the pan before cutting and serving.

MAZURKA - RUSSIAN DRIED FRUIT CAKE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Prepare the cooking pan (about 9" in diameter). First spread vegetable oil over the bottom and the sides with your fingers or a brush. Then, pour the farina into the oiled pan and tilt it over the sink until there is a thin coat of farina covering all surfaces that the dough will touch. This makes the cake easy to remove and gives it an extra bit of texture.
• 2. Chop the nuts into bits. When working with walnuts, I usually just break them with my hands. Slice the dried fruit. Choose the size that fits your taste. Set the cutting board aside.
• 3. Combine eggs, sugar and any flavorings you have in a large bowl. Use a mixer to beat to this mixture until the sugar dissolves (may take a couple of minutes for dark brown sugar), or almost dissolves.
• 4. Add 1/3 of the flour, mix it in with the mixer. Repeat twice until all flour is integrated. The dough will be slightly runny, but rather viscous. It should pour, but not splatter.
• 5. With a wooden spoon, thoroughly mix the nuts and dried fruit into the dough. The dough will be very chunky. That's normal.
• 6. Now for the fun part. Put the baking soda (not powder!) into a small dry cup. Hold a teaspoon ready in your hand as you squeeze lemon over the cup. Don't worry about the exact amount of the lemon juice. You need just enough for all of the soda to react with it. As the soda bubbles vigorously, mix it with the spoon so that all of it reacts with the juice. These are the bubbles that will cause the cake to rise. From now on your actions should be swift: the sooner you put the dough into the oven, the more time these bubbles have to raise your dough. So, carefully fold the bubbles into the dough. Transfer the dough into the prepared pan. With a spoon, spread the dough so that it evenly covers the bottom of the pan.
• 7. Place in the preheated oven and bake for about 30 minutes. To test for readiness, insert a dry wooden chopstick into the center of the cake. If it comes out clean - the cake is done. Let the cake cool before cutting.

RUSSIAN MAZURKA CAKE

Steps:

• Mix eggs with sugar. Add flour, walnuts and baking soda and mix. Grease pans and bake 15-20 minutes. Filling: bring first 3 ingredients to a boil, cool and mix in butter

MAZURKA

Steps:

• 1.Cream egg yolks with confectioner's sugar until light. Stir in clarified butter and vanilla. Add flour and beat vigorously until thick but pourable. If too thick, dilute with a little half-and-half. 2.Just before baking, whip egg whites and fold into batter. Place wafer iron over gas or electric burner on medium heat, brush with butter and spoon in just enough batter to cover the surface. Close lid and cook 1 1/2 minutes. Flip and cook another 1 1/2 minutes. Remove to a platter to cool. Repeat with remaining batter. 3.When wafers are completely cool, spread one plain side of a wafer with filling of choice and top with another wafer, plain side down, to make a sandwich cookie. They can be dusted with confectioners' sugar just before serving. 4.Another way to use the wafers is to build a torte of 6 to 8 wafer layers. Pour melted chocolate over the top, if desired, and when set, cut into small rectangles. 5.These cookies are very fragile, so handle them carefully. Store tightly covered