Cake

Ingredients:

500 g flour
100 g butter
3 egg yolks
200 - 300 ml milk
30 g yeast
100 g sugar
salt


Filling:

200 g raisins
1 tsp cinnamon powder
100 g sugar


Prepare the yeast: mix it with two teaspoons of flour, 1 teaspoon of sugar and 50 ml milk. Put in a warm place to rise.
Stir the butter with the sugar and egg yolks until smooth. Add flour, milk and salt then mix; finally, add the yeast. Knead thoroughly for 10 minutes and allow to rise. Put the dough on a board sprinkled with flour, and roll out to a thickness of 1 cm. Sprinkle the dough with the raisins, cinnamon and sugar, roll it and place in a special šarkelj baking tin. Allow the dough to rise again in the tin. Baste with whisked eggs (including the whites) and bake in a medium hot oven.

Wine: medium sweet white wines from the Drava Valley region