Trdlo or trdelnik is a traditional Czech delicacy. It is prepared on New Year, Christmas, weddings, church holidays, given for good luck to women in labor and small children during Epiphany. Authentic Czech Christmas cookies are baked over an open fire, rolling the dough onto large metal skewers. I baked trdlo in the oven, winding yeast dough onto foil tubes. Wonderful pastries that you should definitely please your loved ones!
Ingredients
To prepare Czech Christmas cookies you will need:
For the test:
2.5 cups flour (250 ml cup);
125 ml milk;
2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
15 g fresh yeast;
70 g butter;
2 egg yolks;
0.5 tsp. salt.
For sprinkling:
1 tsp. cinnamon;
1 glass walnuts;
4 tbsp. l. Sahara;
2 egg whites.
Cooking steps
Add melted butter, yolks and salt. Stir everything well.
Add sifted flour in parts and knead the dough. It should be tighter than regular yeast dough, put it in a bowl, cover with a towel and place in a warm place for 1 hour.
When the dough has risen,
roll it into a layer 3-4 mm thick and cut into strips.
Brush the dough with egg white
Place the tubes on the mold so that they are in a canopy. Bake in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes until golden brown, turning occasionally to ensure even baking.
Cool the finished cookies and remove them from the bases. Delicious Czech cookies are ready, serve with tea, milk or coffee.
Bon appetit!
And with it comes the time to prepare traditional holiday sweets. In the Czech Republic they begin to bake them from the end of November and continue until the holiday itself. It's hard to find a person who doesn't like aromatic Czech Christmas cookies, vanilla bagels or chocolate gingerbread. The selection of goodies is really rich. You can see this at every one in the Czech Republic.
However, it’s nice not only to try different types Czech treats for Christmas, but also try to bake something yourself. Of course, before cooking you will have to choose the most from a great variety of offers. best recipes. A delicious dessert is an essential part of the Christmas menu, which, in addition to cookies, includes dishes such as potato salad, baked carp and much more.
Czech Christmas sweets recipes
There are a lot of traditional Czech recipes for making sweets for Christmas. We will offer you the most popular ones.
Photo: Christmas Stollen (ggpht.com)
Vánoční štola / Christmas stollen
Christmas curd stollen is a very popular sweet that is baked for the holiday. It is a large cupcake with a lot of raisins, nuts and candied fruits.
Ingredients:
- 500 g flour
- 150 g sugar
- 1 packet of baking powder
- vanilla sugar
- 250 g cottage cheese
- 150 g butter
- 2 eggs
- 60 g candied fruits
- 60 g raisins soaked in 40 ml rum
- 60 g almonds or hazelnuts
- Zest from ¼ lemon
- Melted butter for greasing (about 150 g)
- Powdered sugar.
If you want to cook a large stollen, then you will need 2 times more of all the ingredients.
Cooking method:
First, mix the sifted flour with sugar, vanillin and baking powder. Add cottage cheese, softened butter, eggs, raisins soaked in rum, chopped nuts, candied fruits and grated lemon zest to the mixture.
Knead the dough well and give it an oblong shape. You can divide the dough into two pieces and make two small stollen. Place the dough on a baking sheet covered with foil or special paper, grease the stollen with oil and bake for about 45-50 minutes at 180°C. During baking, you need to generously grease the stollen with oil 4 times. Remove the finished stollen from the oven and brush again with melted butter and sprinkle with powdered sugar. If possible, leave the sweetness to rest until the next day.
Photo: Vanilla bagels (sladkevanoce.cz)
Vanilkové rohlíčky / Vanilla bagels
Vanilla Bagels - Another Classic Czech recipe, without which it is already difficult to imagine Catholic Christmas. Bagels are very easy to prepare.
Ingredients:
- 180 g flour
- 60 g ground walnuts or almonds
- pinch of cinnamon
- 60 g powdered sugar
- 140 g butter
- 1 yolk
- 2 packets of vanilla sugar
- 100 g icing sugar for sprinkling
Cooking method:
Leave the butter for two hours at room temperature, then cut it into small pieces, mix with sugar and yolk, add ground nuts, half a packet of vanilla sugar, cinnamon and flour. Make a homogeneous dough, wrap it in foil and refrigerate for 2 hours.
After this, make bagels from the dough and place them on a baking sheet, previously greased with oil or covered with special baking paper. Bake the bagels at 180°C until they are golden brown. While still warm, sprinkle them with powdered sugar mixed with vanilla. Bagels can be refrigerated for at least two weeks.
Photo: Coconut cookies (rajce.idnes.cz)
Kokosové cukroví / Coconut cookies
One of the favorite Czech Christmas sweets is delicious coconut cookies.
Ingredients:
- 200 g flour
- 200 g butter
- 80 g powdered sugar
- 200 g coconut flakes
- 1 egg
- jam
- chocolate for melting.
Cooking method:
Mix sifted flour with sugar and coconut. Add the egg and softened butter, cut into pieces. Knead the dough and make cookies of any shape. You can make it in the form of oblong bars. Place the dough on a baking tray covered with baking paper. The sweetness should be baked at 180°C for about 10 minutes. Connect the chilled cookie halves with jam and dip one side into melted chocolate. Leave the cookies to sit for a week.
Merry Christmas!
I am meeting the requests of the public (don’t laugh, the public really asked, almost three people!) and publishing recipes for Christmas cookies.
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Czech national recipes, mother-in-law family recipes, carried out by generations of women for whom Christmas is without the delicious smell of spices, without a kitchen in snowdrifts of flour, children with pieces of dough in their hair and happy smiles on their faces (because they just managed to steal a piece of this very dough and chew it) , a husband who needs to be beaten on the wrist so that he doesn’t drag baked goods straight from the baking sheet, which should sit for two weeks before the holiday, without baking molds, which ended up under the sofa when they urgently need to be on kitchen table, without a neighbor ringing the doorbell for some stupidity at the exact moment when you need to take the baking sheet out of the oven, and I’m generally silent about the ringing mobile phone in one hand and the hot baking sheet in the other (and singed fingers that urgently need to be smeared with ointment). .. in general, without all this, Christmas is not Christmas. (In our family, the holidays are a mess - we celebrate Czech Christmas, then New Year's Eve, then Orthodox Christmas - choose the holiday for which you will bake).
I will upload the recipes (because there are several basic ones) gradually. Today - the first, the most classic, LINETSKY COOKIES.
You will need: 280 gr. flour (I measure with a tablespoon, one heaped spoon of flour is equal to 30 grams), 160 grams. butter (or margarine, depending on what you like, for simplicity I will write “butter”), 100 gr. powdered sugar (important! Never granulated sugar!), 2 yolks, vanilla, zest from one lemon or half an orange. And fruit jam/jam/jam - so that it spreads, preferably sour and red in color.
Mix the bulk ingredients, in the middle (of course, cool housewives do all this on a table or a special board, but I don’t bother and brazenly mix everything in a bowl) cut the butter into thin plastic pieces, taken out of the refrigerator ahead of time, so that it doesn’t look like concrete, there - yolks, and knead them thoroughly with your hands. At the first stage, the dough turns out to be a funny crumb - everything is in order, this is how it should be, knead further. The dough, as the pieces of butter are mixed with flour, becomes sticky - here it is important to make sure that there are no uncrushed pieces of butter left. When the dough has become pliable, make a loaf, roll it in cling film, throw it in the refrigerator and go to bed. (You can put it in the freezer for a couple of hours, but it’s better to put it in the refrigerator overnight - Christmas dough doesn’t like rushing).
The next day, take out the dough and roll it out to a thickness of 3mm. And we cut out Christmas trees, hearts, angels, bears, men, stars and other insects with molds. I can even tell Tbilisi residents where such molds are sold in Tbilisi.
But still, the classics of the genre are circles, half of them are whole, the other with a hole in the middle. Holes can also be made in hearts and stars (in bears and people it’s kind of cruel...).
Important! The dough should not be hot, otherwise the cookies in the oven will turn into sprawling monsters. I calmly cut everything out in the cool kitchen, put it on baking sheets and trays and take it to the balcony to freeze, and then I just turn on the oven. Heat the oven at about 180 degrees, place the cookies on baking sheets on baking paper, they bake quickly, I didn’t time them, just look at the first batch, lifting the cookies with a knife - if the bottoms are browned, it means they’re ready (if they’re browned on the sides too, it means a little it was overcooked, but that’s okay, it’s still delicious). Take it out, let it cool, load the next ones. There’s about two full baking sheets of food here, but sometimes I get greedy and double it, although it’s a pain later - there’s so much to cut and bake, I once spent half the night on my feet)))
Well, when everything is baked, we connect the figures without a hole with the figures with a hole using jam (jelly, confiture, jam), it is then beautifully visible in the hole.
Those without holes, simply connect them, you can decorate them chocolate icing(80 grams of butter/margarine per 100 grams of chocolate, white can be used).
In many countries around the world, it is customary to prepare treats for Christmas. Many of them are prepared long before the holiday in order to acquire their unique taste, but there are also those that are prepared directly on the days of holiday festivities and fairs. For example, Czech cookies trdlo or trdelnik are prepared on large metal spits, rolling dough on them and baked over an open fire, and all passersby, young and old, can buy and enjoy the taste of this extraordinary cookie.
We will cook the trdlo in the oven, and as skewers we will use foil tubes, glossy magazines rolled into a tube or paper towel bases. These blanks should be wrapped in foil so that they do not burn and for ease of removing the dough from the tube. Translated, trdlo means “stupid” or “stupid”.
To prepare trdlo we need flour, sugar, dry yeast, eggs, milk, butter, cinnamon, walnuts and salt.
Separate the whites from the yolks. Butter melt in a saucepan, cool slightly and add the yolks. Stir well. Add milk to the glass until the contents reach 250 ml. You may need a little more milk during the process.
In a bowl, mix flour, sugar (1 tbsp), yeast and salt.
Add the contents of the glass to it and mix with a spatula. Add milk if necessary.
Knead the dough, roll it into a ball. The dough should be tighter than regular yeast dough. Cover the bowl with the dough with film and put it in a warm place. It will not rise much, about 2 times.
Prepare the walnuts by chopping them with a knife. Combine with the remaining sugar and cinnamon, mix well.
After 50-55 minutes the dough will rise. It should be rolled out into a layer of about 3 mm.
Cut the dough into strips of 10-15 mm. The length of the strips can be any and they can be connected. In general, the original trdlos must be huge.
Roll the dough over the prepared tubes and brush with egg white. Pour the nut mixture onto the dough mat and roll the tubes on all sides.
Place the bases with the dough on the mold so that they are in a canopy. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes until they turn golden brown.
Cool the cookies and remove from the bases. Serve cookies with tea, coffee or milk.
Bon appetit! Happy New Year and Christmas holidays!
