Russian Tea Cakes

About Russian Tea Cakes

Ingredients

• Refined flour 2 cups
• Castor sugar ½ cup to roll the cakes
• Butter 1 cup
• Vanilla essence 1 tsp
• Walnuts, chopped ½ cup
• Salt to taste

How to Make Russian Tea Cakes (Stepwise Photos)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 200º C. Grease a baking tray.
2. Take castor sugar and butter in a mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater till light and fluffy.
3. Add vanilla essence, refined flour, walnuts and salt and knead into a dough.
4. Divide the dough into small equal portions and shape them into roundels. Place them in the baking tray.
5. Keep the tray in the preheated oven and bake for 10-12 minutes. Remove the tray from the oven and allow to cool.
6. Spread the castor sugar in a plate, roll the cakes in it and arrange them in a serving platter. Serve.

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Chaitrali Deshmukh

Thank you for the amazing instructions.

I have success w/ my dosa but does not last long stored in the refrigerator.

Maybe I am fermenting for too long, or add the salt before the rise?

I also was wondering if it is important to blend separately or can it be blended all together?

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Chef Saransh Goila

Hi Chaitrali,
Yes, cut down the fermentation time and add salt only to the required portion at the time of making the dosa. Also storing in smaller containers just enough for a day helps. Once the batter in a larger container is disturbed (by stirring or scooping out a little etc), I feel it turns sour faster. You can blend them together if you want. But we do it separately because we want the dal batter to become fluffy and the rice batter slightly coarse. Fluffy dal batter makes the dosas light and coarse rice batter makes them extra crispy without making the dosas hard. Hope this helps