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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Eastern European >> Hungarian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. DAY BEFORE BAKING: | 2. Sift together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, cloves and baking soda. | 3. Melt together the butter and the honey, pour over the flour combination and stir to mix. | 4. Add 1 egg and knead together. The dough should be soft (you can add a bit of lukewarm water if necessary), since it will harden a bit during its resting period. | 5. Cover the dough in a bowl and let it rest at least one day at room temperature. | 6. BAKING DAY: | 7. Rolling out the dough is easiest between two pieces of waxed paper. | 8. Cut desired shapes out of the dough (of about 3/8 inches thickness on average). | 9. Before baking, brush with the yolk of an egg to which a few drops of red food coloring have been added. If you are decorating with seeds, brush dough with egg white to "paste" seeds on top of dough before baking. | 10. (Alternately, let the honey cakes rest a few days and then decorate with colored sugar icings.). | 11. Place cut out pieces of dough on a cold, greased cookie sheet, bake at 350 degrees F. (or less) for about 6-8 minutes. Thicker pieces may need a longer time (ovens temperatures also vary). | 12. DECORATION: | 13. If icing cookies, let the honey cakes rest a few days and then decorate with colored sugar icings. | 14. MAKE VARIOUS COLORED SUGAR ICINGS: | 15. Colored sugar icing, one version: To one egg white, add as much sifted powdered sugar as needed to make fairly stiff paste. Add desired food colorings, separated by color. (Do not use a mixer!) | 16. Spoon this mixture into a small nylon baggie, cut a tiny hole in one corner, roll up and use like a pencil to draw and color. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
flour	4	cups		2313.12	506.4216	37.604	8.9744
sugar	1	cup	granulated	319.8	60.008	10.01	4.992
honey	2/3	cup		-	-	-	-
butter	1/2	cup	unsalted	684.0	31.428	21.372	57.6
cinnamon	1	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
clove	1	teaspoon	ground	5.754	1.3761	0.1254	0.273
baking soda	4	teaspoons		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
lemon	1		grated rind	1.2808	0.4116	0.0486	0.0132
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
extra egg s				-	-	-	-
red food coloring	3	drops		-	-	-	-
poppy seed				-	-	-	-
egg white	1			17.16	0.2409	3.597	0.0561
sugar			powdered sifted	319.8	60.008	10.01	4.992
food coloring	3	drops		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.