Ingredients

  • 3 tablespoons honey
  • 220 g sugar
  • 3 tablespoons milk
  • 30 g butter, softened
  • 1 egg, whole
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 400 g flour (maybe slightly less)
  • 3 tablespoons icing sugar
  • 250 ml apricot jam
  • 300 ml milk
  • 3 tablespoons cream of wheat
  • 1 tablespoon sugar
  • 100 g butter
  • 120 g powdered sugar (icing sugar)
  • 100 g walnuts, finely chopped
  • 1 tablespoon cocoa, unsweetened

Method

  • THE DOUGH.
  • Melt the honey on bain-marie.
  • Add the sugar and the milk and stir until all melted and well blended.
  • Add the butter and mix well.
  • Take out of the bain-marie and add the egg, baking soda and mix well.
  • Add the flour bit by bit kneading well.
  • Add the flour until still kneadable but slighlty hard.
  • It should not come apart.
  • If it does (too much flour), add a bit of milk to fix.
  • Separate the dough into 4 equal parts and let it rest for 15 minutes.
  • Roll each part of the dough in a slim layer (approx 5mm thick) on the bottom of a cookie sheet and bake at 180C until golden.
  • Set aside to cool.
  • THE FILLING.
  • Make a hot cereal cream out of the wheat cream, milk and 1 tbsp sugar.
  • Cool.
  • Mix butter and powdered sugar until smooth.
  • Add the walnuts and cocoa.
  • Add all to the cooled wheat cream mix.
  • Separate in two equal parts.
  • THE LAYERING.
  • Lay one layer of baked dough and cover evenly with one part filling prepared as above.
  • Lay the second layer of dough and cover evenly with 250ml apricot jam.
  • Lay the third layer of dough and cover with the second part of the filling.
  • Lay the forth layer of dough and sprinkle with 3 tsp icing sugar.
  • Set aside in cool place (or refrigerate) until dough layers soften.
  • Serve in the same day (kept for too long gets the dough too soft and may slid).