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Cușma lui Guguță

Name: Cușma lui Guguță
Total time: 180 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Moldova
Ingredients: 300g All-purpose flour; 150g Butter; 500g Sour cream; 1 Egg; 150g Sugar; 400g (pitted) Cherries; 1 tsp Baking Powder; 50g Powdered sugar; A pinch Cocoa powder

Dessert

⏱ 180 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Thin rolls filled with cherries stacked into a peak and covered in cream — a Moldovan cake born from a children's book.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Cușma lui Guguță means 'Guguță's hat,' a cake named after Guguță, the boy in a sheepskin hat from the children's stories of Moldovan writer Spiridon Vangheli. Thin rolls of dough filled with cherries are stacked into a triangular peak and covered in sour cream frosting to form the hat. It's made for birthdays and celebrations.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a Moldovan family birthday, a white triangular cake is cut, revealing rows of red cherry-filled tubes in cross-section.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

All-purpose flour 300g
Butter 150g
Sour cream 500g
Egg 1
Sugar 150g
Cherries 400g (pitted)
Baking Powder 1 tsp
Powdered sugar 50g
Cocoa powder A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Bring together the flour, butter, 100g sour cream, egg, 50g sugar, and baking powder and chill 1 hour.
Divide the dough into 10, roll into long strips, line with cherries, and roll into tubes.
Arrange on a baking sheet, bake at 180°C for 20 minutes, and cool.
Whip the remaining sour cream with the sugar and powdered sugar into a frosting.
Stack the tubes into a triangular peak on a plate, spreading frosting between them, cover entirely, dust with cocoa, and chill overnight.

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