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Granko
The Kitchen
By Claire Beaumont, the Technique desk · 14d ago · Czechia · 1 min ·

Granko

A very popular baking sheet bun that almost everyone knows from childhood. Soft, fluffy and filled with cottage cheese filling, exactly like our grandmothers and mothers used to bake for us. You may also know it as a Handsome Bun or Quilted Blanket. You can bake it in one go and with almost no work.

Ingredients · Servings 1 sheet
  • Cocoa dough:
  • 2 cups plain flour
  • 1 baking powder
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • 3/4 cup oil
  • 1 cup of milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 3 tablespoons Grank
  • lemon zest from one lemon
  • Light dough:
  • 2 soft cottage cheeses
  • 1 vanilla sugar
  • 1 vanilla pudding
  • 1 cup powdered sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 cup of milk
  • To wipe and empty the sheet:
  • fat and coarse flour
Method · 50 min
  1. For the cocoa batter, beat the eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the oil, milk, grated lemon zest from one lemon, and flour, in which we first mix the baking powder thoroughly, and finally mix it into the Granko mixture.
  2. Spread 2/3 of the cocoa batter onto a greased and floured baking sheet, setting the rest of the batter aside for the end of the preparation.
  3. To make a light batter, beat the cottage cheese with eggs, powdered sugar, vanilla sugar, pudding powder and room temperature milk into a thin batter, which we pour onto the already spread cocoa batter on the baking sheet.
  4. Now it's high time for the remaining cocoa dough, which we pour onto the light dough according to our own imagination and creativity. Bake slowly at a temperature of approximately 170 °C. After baking, let the slices cool. Then enjoy this delicacy.

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