Pötyi szelet — Dotty cake

Dear Reader,

I have to make a confession regarding this week's dessert. I don't really know if it's Hungarian or not. To tell you the truth, I think it doesn't belong to any nations, so let's claim it's Hungarian. This originates from my mother's printed baking-book, it is written in Hungarian — it has to be Hungarian.

This cake is a little bit different from the previous cake. Pötyi szelet needs more time and more patience than the other. Pötyi szelet's mirror translation can be Dotty cake, as there is a dot in the middle of the slice.

It's sweet, it's tasty, it's Hungarian! Bake it!

You'll need the following ingredients for one thick layer of dough:

8 tablespoons of flour (evőkanál liszt)
8 tablespoons of sugar (evőkanál cukor)
8 eggs (tojás)

Add as much cocoa powder as you wish. The aim is to get a beautiful dark color.








Mix them well and then bake it!









For the filling-cream you'll need:

1/2 liter of milk (fél liter tej)
1 vanilla puding ( cs. vaníliás puding)
1 tablespoon of flour (evőkanál liszt)
1 vanilla sugar (cs. vaníliás cukor)

Put the ingredients above in a big bowl and cook them.

Beforehand mix 9 oz of butter (25 dkg vaj) and 5 oz of powdered sugar (15 dkg porcukor). When the sugar and the butter is creamy, add the dollop into the cooked cream.

And now, ladies and gentlemen, here comes the part that makes this cake special! (I didn't wrote gentlemen by accident as I know some men who love to bake. Let me mention my beloved boyfriend who baked a cake for my birthday with his own hands! Again, darling, I love you and thank you.) Yes, the special part.

For the filling, we'll form sticks from the following ingredients:

4 oz of cookies (15 dkg keksz)
1 tablespoon of peach jam (evőkanál baracklekvár)
1/2 deciliter of rum
1 tablespoon of cocoa powder (evőkanál kakaópor)
1 packet of chestnut puree (csomag gesztenyepüré)

Mix all of them with your hands.

Now, divide the dollop into 6 equal parts. And then, take a time-travel back to kindergarten when you were playing with plasticine. Rub your hands against each other and form a stick. Repeat until you get six.

The next step is to cut your dough into two halves. Cover the first layer with half of the cream.

Next, put the sticks on the cream.

Again, put the rest of the cream on the sticks.

Put the second half of the dough on top of that.

Finish it by covering the top layer in chocolate glaze.

Finally, you can enjoy your work!