Christmas Recipes from Slovakia

Recipe Name: Honey-Cakes

---- Pastry ----

• 400 g flour

• 200 g powder sugar

• 2 spoonfuls of honey

• ½ teaspoon of soda bicarbonate

• 3 eggs

• Crushed cloves

• Cinnamon

---- Sugar Icing ----

• 1 egg white

• powdered sugar

Pastry:
Mix all of the ingredients together well and let the dough sit over night. Then roll it out with a rolling pin to until the dough is about 2-3 mm in height.

Cut out different shapes from the dough using metal cookie cutters. Brush the cake surfaces with a whipped egg after placing them on a well greased cookie sheet.

Bake them in hot oven (350 degrees) for 20 minutes.

Sugar Icing:
Mix the egg white with enough powdered sugar to make a medium thick icing.

Decorate the golden colored honey-cakes with the sugar icing making different shapes or pictures on the cakes. Be creative.

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