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.



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

 * 1) Set the 25 whole vanilla wafers aside.
 * 2) Crush enough vanilla wafers, in a medium sized bowl, to make 1¼ cups of a rough"flour".
 * 3) Add powdered sugar, butter, rum, water, and cocoa.
 * 4) Mix ingredients.
 * 5) In a small bowl mix filling ingredients together.
 * 6) Dust the inside of the bee hive form with powdered sugar, then press in a small ball of dough.
 * 7) Make a hole in the dough with your finger or end of a wooden spoon.
 * 8) Add enough filling to the hole, with a spoon, to fill the cavity.
 * 9) Carefully tap the hive out of the form and set it atop a whole vanilla wafer.
 * 10) You must experiment to find out how much powdered sugar one needs to dust the form with, so that the hive slips out easily.
 * 11) If you have no bee hive form, use an empty chamber from a grocery store cardboard egg carton.
 * 12) Store in a cool place, remembering you have raw egg in the filling.