Vosi Hnizda

== Description ==
Czech Christmas sweets. This is as common in the Czech Republic as Mexican wedding cakes / Russian tea cakes are in the USA. One does need a bee hive form, but one can use an empty chamber from a grocery store cardboard egg carton. 
== Ingredients ==
=== Hive === 
* 1¼ cups crushed round vanilla wafers or round toddler vanilla wafers
* 25 whole round vanilla wafers
* 1¼ cups powdered sugar
* 7 tablespoons soft room temperature butter
* 2 tablespoons rum
* 2 tablespoons water
* 2 tablespoons cocoa (Hershey's pure baking cocoa) 
=== Filling ===
* ¾ cup powdered sugar
* 5½ tablespoons soft room temp butter
* 1 egg yolk, from a pasteurized egg (or immerse an unpasteurized egg in boiling water for 1 minute, cool immediately)
* 2 tablespoons rum 
== Directions ==
# Set the 25 whole vanilla wafers aside.
# Crush enough vanilla wafers, in a medium sized bowl, to make 1¼ cups of a rough "flour".
# Add powdered sugar, butter, rum, water, and cocoa.
# Mix ingredients.
# In a small bowl mix filling ingredients together.
# Dust the inside of the bee hive form with powdered sugar, then press in a small ball of dough.
# Make a hole in the dough with your finger or end of a wooden spoon.
# Add enough filling to the hole, with a spoon, to fill the cavity.
# Carefully tap the hive out of the form and set it atop a whole vanilla wafer.
# You must experiment to find out how much powdered sugar one needs to dust the form with, so that the hive slips out easily.
# If you have no bee hive form, use an empty chamber from a grocery store cardboard egg carton.
# Store in a cool place, remembering you have raw egg in the filling. 
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Category:Christmas Desserts
Category:Czech Desserts
Category:Cocoa Recipes
Category:Egg yolk Recipes
Category:Rum Recipes
Category:Vanilla wafer Recipes