Vosi Hnizda

Description
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 ingredients
 * 1 1/4 cups crushed round vanilla wafers or round toddler vanilla wafers
 * 25 whole round vanilla wafers
 * 1 1/4 cups powdered sugar
 * 7 tablespoons soft room temp butter
 * 2 tablespoons rum
 * 2 tablespoons water
 * 2 tablespoons cocoa (Hershey's pure baking cocoa)

Filling


 * 3/4 cup powdered sugar
 * 5 1/2 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 1 1/4 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.