Karp Family Recipes

Lekvar Cakes

Category: Desserts, Cookies

Ingredients:

4-1/2 c. sifted flour 1-1/2 c. Crisco 4 t. baking powder 1 c. sugar 4 egg yolks 1 t. vanilla Sour cream or water

Directions:

Place dry ingredients in bowl. Mix in Crisco by hand. Beat eggs and vanilla and add. Add a little sour cream or water, a little at a time. Knead until smooth. If dough is too hard to handle, chill in refrigerator. Divide dough in half. Roll out and put in a pan about 12” x 18”. Spread prune or apricot lekvar over dough. Roll out other piece of dough, cut into strips, and cross over filling. Bake 45-60 minutes in a 375 degree oven. Cut into squares when cool. For the filling: about 2 lbs. of fruit. Put into saucepan, add some water, bring to a boil, reduce heat. For prunes, add 1 t. cinnamon, 3 T. vanilla; for apricots, 1/2 t. cinnamon, 1 T. vanilla.