Kifliće

Croatian women are famous for the delicious cakes and biscuits! Be it for a celebration, during the holiday season, or for no reason at all, whenever you visit someone's house, you are bound to be served some homemade cakes (domaći kolaći).

As part of this blog, I hope to share some of my favourite Croatian recipes, taken from my grandmother's handwritten recipe book...

Kifliće

An all time favourite, with has many variations as there are people in Dalmatia. They can be made with a flaky pastry or a shortcrust pastry; they can be filled with apricot or Croatian plum jam (which is very different from the plum jam we buy is the supermarket, it's thick and opaque - almost like a jam made from prunes) or even with choc-hazelnut spread (Yum!); they can be dusted with icing sugar or regular white sugar. But whichever way they are made, they rarely last long once they come out of the oven.

Pola kila brašna prostog
1 kiseli vrhnje
3 jaja sam žumance
1 maslac

Maslac dobro ufaljaj u brašno i umisi glatkog tisto i razdili u 3 dila i zvaljaj i poškopi sa vrućon masti izmotaj kao salamu i stavi u frižider 1 uru. Pravi kifliće i maži sa aprikot đem.


Half a kilo plain flour
1 carton sour cream
3 egg yokes
1 block of butter

Mix the butter into the flour well and form a soft dough. Divide it into 3 and roll it out and sprinkle it with some melted lard. Roll into salami-like forms and place in the fridge for one hour. Make the kifliće and spread with apricot jam.
(The kifliće are made by thinly rolling out small portions of the dough, creating a circle about the size of a CD. Spread each circle with jam, roll them up and fold to make a crescent-like shape. Place them into a moderate oven and bake until they turn a pale golden colour).