Buhtle (Buchteln)

Buchteln (Buhtle) are sweet dumplings made of yeast dough, filled with jam, poppy seed paste or curd and baked in a large pan so that they stick together. The traditional Buchtel is filled with plum powidl jam or lekvar jam. Buchteln are topped with vanilla sauce, powdered sugar or eaten plain and warm.

Ingredients for Dumplings:

• 3 eggs
• 7 spoons of sugar
•  1 kg flour
• 3/4 margarin
•  oil
• 3-4 dcl milk
• 1 fresh yeast
• vanilla sugar
• a pinch of salt
• jam

 PREPARATION:

• Sieve flour into a bowl and make a little depression in the middle. Add the milk, vanilla sugar and 7 spoons of sugar. Add margarin and few spoons of oil and combine with the yeast (which is supposed to be prepared earlier in warm milk and 1 spoon of sugar). Pour it with 3 - 4 dcl of milk, add a pinch of salt and beat well until dough can be easily removed from the bowl (non-sticky). If it still feels too sticky, add some more flour. Let the covered bowl rest at a warm place for about 1 hour.
• Knead dough one more time and toss on a floured pastry board. Cut in equal pieces and form snow ball sized dumplings.
• Put jam in each, and make sure the spot where Buchtelns were closed is on the bottom.
• Butter casserole or a larger pan and also pour some sugar in, until the bottom is more or less equally covered. Now add the dumplings, arranged next to each other, touching each other. Brush some melted butter over them. Cover and let rise about 15 minutes, then bake in preheated oven at 190°C for about 30 minutes. They should take on a light golden-brown color.
• After they are done, add the last touch: pour the powdered sugar over them.

ENJOY!

  

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