Sour cherries are quite popular in Romania, and are the basis of a wide variety of desserts.
Sour cherries are quite popular in Romania, and are the basis of a wide variety of desserts. They are even turned into a widely enjoyed sweet spirit, left to soak into grain alcohol sweetened with sugar. At the same time, they can also be served as a regular dish, namely a soup, which is one of the more exotic influences left in Transylvanian cooking by the Saxons, an ethnic German group that settled in that region in the Middle Ages. The other obvious application is to make preserves, and sour cherry preserve is part of every Romanian's childhood memories.
Today we'll start by presenting a simple preparation, a fluffy cake with sour cherries. Take 3 eggs, a cup of milk, 200 g or sugar, 250 g of flour, baking powder, the shredded rind of one lemon, and half a kg of sour cherries. Pit the cherries and sprinkle them with a couple of tablespoons of sugar in a bowl, leaving them to take it in. With a mixer blend thoroughly the sugar and eggs at higher speed, then add the milk and flour and set the mixer at lower speed to blend. Put the mixture in a tray lined with baking paper, then drop the cherries on top of it. Bake in a preheated oven on medium for about half an hour. It can be served hot or cold, sprinkled with powdered sugar.
One other possibility is sour cherry cookies. We use almost the same ingredients, with the exception of the fact that you only use the yolks of the eggs. Take 200 g of sugar, three egg yolks, 100 g of butter, 200 g of flour, baking powder, a pack of vanilla sugar, the shredded rind of one lemon, and pitted sour cherries. Use a mixer to blend the butter and sugar to a cream, and add gradually the flour until it forms a light dough that doesn't stick to the bowl. Take tablespoons of the mixture, lay them on a baking paper lined tray, then flatten them. Stick a sour cherry on top of each dollop, then bake on medium in a preheated oven about 20 minutes, until golden brown. You can also drizzle melted chocolate on top of the cookies.
Enjoy!
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