I craved a particular cake my teta Ruza used to make. It had a layer of dough followed by a layer of apple filling covered with a dough “mesh”. I never had a chance to get the recipe from teta Ruza* so I decided to make a close-enough recipe from a book apply named “Domaci kolaci” (homemade cakes).

*Well, I did ask her how she made orehnjaca once and she explained it to me. At the time it made so much sense that I did not think I needed to write it down. Needless to say, I forgot and all the recipes that I found in cookbooks and and the interwebs are not quite right.

Yah, “Domaci kolaci” assumes that you already know exactly how to make a cake so things like measurements for ingredients, pan sizes and rolled out dough thickness are intermittent or more likely absent. So there you go, I run out of dough for a mesh and had to use the biggest pan I had because I did not know how big the cake would be.

And oh, the oven temperature was written in Kelvins when I thought these were Fahrenheit. Did they write this book to be used in chemistry class??? Probably not, you need measurements in chemistry…

In any case, the cake is 80% apple so even burnt it did not taste badly. In all the rush, I placed the pan on a still hot stove element (trying to bathe Markus and eat lunch at the same time causes chaos, who knew?) and broke it under the cake. At least I did not have to attempt to clean the burnt part.

Moral of the story: If you have someone in your life that bakes good cakes, film them making every single cake they make.