Aranygaluska that gilds your heart

Since I was a toddler, I was a great fan of aranygaluska. I sat at the table and watched how my grandmother makes this delicious dessert. I have learned the steps from her, just like my mother. And now, I am passing the secret to you.

Aranygaluska is dumplings, often served with vanilla custard. It was the first time when I tried it with vanilla custard and actually I liked it. The cream softens the dumplings and is in harmony with the golden walnut-covered dumplings.

Let's see what we need:
- almost a half of yeast (nem egészen egy fél csomag élesztő) which we run up in milk and sugar
- 9-10 oz of flour (liszt) (25-30 dkg liszt)
- 5 oz of melted margarine (15 dkg olvasztott margarin)
- 2 eggs (tojás)
                       and a little more of flour for the kneading







We will also need :
- 9 oz of grained walnuts mixed with sugar and vanilla sugar (25 dkg darált dió)
- and a little of vegetable oil (növényi olaj) in which we will put the spoon to rend the doughs

Grained walnuts mixed with sugar and vanilla sugar

We put all of the ingredients together, mix them well and leaven it for an hour. Then we grease  the casserole with butter or margarine.

 After an hour the dough should be look like this.

Now, we dip a tablespoon into the vegetable oil. With this spoon we rend small pieces from the dough then put them into grained walnuts.

Cover the doughnuts well in walnuts then put them into the casserole, one after the other, as you can see below. When the first "floor" is full, start a new one, just putting the doughnuts right on the top of the first row.

We bake it for 40-45 minutes. To tell you the truth, I don't know the exact heat but be sure to bake it till it gets golden brown. 

You can serve it with or without vanilla custard. If you prefer it with cream, then cook a pudding with more milk than usual.

And here is the result. Looking delicious, isn't it? 

Try it at home and be careful not to get addicted to this crumb of heaven!
See you next week!

Welcome and let's make something simple and tasty!

It's our first week in the world of Hungarian sweets, so I decided to make something really simple which is cheap, fast and tasty. It is called őzgerinc. In English the translation is "venison spine" but don't be scared, no animals were harmed!

So, here are the ingredients:
200 grams (7 oz) of margarine (margarin)
200 grams (7 oz) of sugar (kristálycukor)
2 eggs (tojás)
50 grams (2 oz) of cocoa powder ( bittersweet) (keserű kakópor)
1 vanilla sugar ( vaníliás cukor)
200 grams (7 oz) of grained walnuts (darált dió)
300 grams (11 oz) of biscuits  (keksz)

You will get two bars in the end. But first things first!

You start with breaking the biscuits into small pieces as it is seen in the picture below.

You put the ingredients except for the biscuits and the grained walnuts into a big bowl.

Keep it at a slow simmer until it boils. It has to be dense in the end.

Leaving it on the fire, add the walnuts and mix it together. Cook it for another two minutes.

Take it off from the fire and add the biscuits. Mix it carefully, without breaking the biscuits.










Put the dollop in the center of the cellophane, in a lengthy shape. Here is a picture of how it should look like.

Form a bar. Here comes the tricky part. Fold one side of the cellophane to the other side, gently pushing our Bambi. Do it again from the cross side. Then curl the ends tightly. Here are some pictures for you to see the process.

And here is the final form of our bar.

You have reached the easiest part of the proccess, waiting for the delicious sweet to gain its shape.  For this, you leave the bars at a cool place. When they are hardened, you cut them like you cut bread.


I can't show a picture of the exact result because it gets eaten so fast, I couldn't have the chance to make a photo of it. But Google is always a friend.

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I hope you have fun making this sweet. See you next week!