Karpatka (Polish Dessert) Recipe
Polish Karpatka prepared with choux dough layers and vanilla cream filling. You can easily prepare it at home and serve it with coffee.
Ingredients
1. Cream Ingredients
2. Dough Ingredients
Step-by-Step Method
Combine cream ingredients
Put milk, sugar, flour, starch and egg yolk in a pot, mix until smooth.
Cook the cream
Cook over medium heat, stirring, and continue stirring until the consistency thickens.
Add butter and vanilla
When you turn off the stove, add butter and vanilla and mix.
Let the cream rest
Spread stretch film over the cream and let it cool at room temperature.
Heat the butter and water for the dough base
Put butter and water in the pot and heat it until all the butter melts.
Add the flour
Add the flour and mix quickly to ensure that it is incorporated without any lumps.
Cool the dough
Turn off the stove and let the dough cool slightly.
Add the eggs
Break the eggs into the dough one by one and mix them into the mixture, whisking each time.
Add the dry ingredients
Add salt and baking powder and mix to obtain a homogeneous dough.
Pour the dough into the mold
Spread half of the dough into the springform pan lined with baking paper and smooth it out.
Bake the first layer
Bake in a preheated 160°C oven for 35 minutes.
Prepare the second layer
Spread the remaining dough into the same mold and bake the other layer for 35 minutes.
Add the cream
Spread the cream on the bottom layer of the cooled mold.
Close the cake
Carefully place the top layer over the cream.
Serve with powdered sugar
After it cools down, sprinkle powdered sugar on it and let it rest in the refrigerator.