Fat Thursday :)

Fat Thursday - no 2 for me here in Dubai.
Last year it surprised me a bit, but this year I'm fully prepared :) You can eat a donut in  Kryspy Kreme  :) They are really delicious ...
... but I decided to do Faworki and steamed dough cakes  - yumie!

Faworki: 500 g flour6 egg yolksok. 6 tbsp. of cream
pinch of salt 2 packs of vanilla sugar2 tbsp alcohol (i.e. vodka or pure spirit)icing powder sugar to sprinkle

app. 500g of oil for frying

Knead dough from all the components until it is similar to that one for pierogi (dumplings). Beat it with a rolling-pin so it blisters and leave for 30 minutes. Roll Out dough very thinly. Cut into stripes (app. 10-12 cm long and 2-3 cm wide). Cut a small slit in the middle of each stripe, pass one of its sides through it and afterwards pull it through (shape like a twisted ribbon). Now is time for frying, both sides, until colour will be golden.

Steam cakes with lemon icing:

1 glass of water

100 g butter

1 glass of flour

4 eggs

Icing:

150g icing powder

2 łyżki boiling water

2-3 tbsp. lemon juice

Pour water into the pot, put the butter and heat up. As the butter is melted pour the flour and stir. When dough start depart from the walls of the well leave it to cool. After cooling, put eggs to the pot and mix, there should be no lumps. Place dough on baking parchment and bake about 10 - 15 minutes in the oven heated to 180 c degrees. When cool sprinkle with icing.