Taflakveri
Taflakveri is a traditional Georgian sweet, especially popular for the New Year. It's a honey cake house, decorated with sugar icing. Its preparation is quite laborious, but the result is worth the effort.
Ingredients
- Egg1 ცალი
- water45 ml
- Lemon juice5 ml
Instructions
9 steps- 1
Prepare the dough: Melt honey, sugar and butter together over low heat. Remove from heat and let cool.
15 min
- 2
Add egg, baking soda, cinnamon and cloves to the cooled mixture. Mix well.
5 min
- 3
Gradually add flour and knead into an elastic dough.
10 min
- 4
Wrap the dough and refrigerate for 30 minutes.
30 min
- 5
Roll out the dough to a thickness of 0.5 cm and use templates to cut out the house parts.
10 min
- 6
Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 10-15 minutes, until golden brown.
15 min
180°C
- 7
While it bakes, prepare the sugar icing: Heat powdered sugar and water in a saucepan and stir with a wooden spoon. If it is too thin, add more powder.
5 min
- 8
Prepare the sugar and egg white icing: Mix powdered sugar, lemon juice and egg white until smooth.
5 min
- 9
Paint the cooled parts and let them dry. Use sugar icing to connect the parts. Use sugar and egg white icing for snow.
Nutrition
1 serving ≈ 275 g
Nutrition values are estimates. - means data is unavailable.
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