Traditional ritual bread - Easter cake - is an indispensable attribute of the Easter table.
Due to its special recipe, the dough for this delicacy "behaves" not as a simple muffin and in handling it you need to observe some tricks, so let's get together to figure out how to make an Easter cake.
A simple Easter cake recipe
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 items;
- eggs - 5 pcs .;
- milk - ½ item;
- vegetable oil - 50 ml;
- yeast - 30 g;
- butter - 200 g;
- sugar - ½ tbsp.
For glaze:
- powdered sugar - 1 item;
- egg - 1 piece;
- milk - 2 tbsp. spoons.
Preparation
In warm milk, let's brew yeast (preferably "live"), add a tablespoon of sugar and 3-4 tablespoons of flour. We put the sponge in a warm place for 30 minutes for fermentation.
In the meantime, the egg yolks are ground with sugar, and the whites are whipped into a foam. Yolks are the first to go to the spit, followed by a mixture of melted butter and vegetable oil, and finally - protein foam. Gently knead the dough and pour the remaining flour. We give the test to rise a second time, and then we put it into molds for a third of the total volume. When the dough rises again - put the cakes in the oven and bake at 180 degrees for 30-35 minutes. We check the readiness with a wooden stick. Ready cakes should be completely cooled, and only then they can be covered with a frosting of whipped with sugar powder and milk proteins.
How to decorate such a cake decide yourself: you can cover it with a classic colored sprinkling, figurines from fudge or inscriptions from the cream.
Cake with raisins on leaven
Kulich according to the old Russian recipe rises on a fermented sourdough, which at that time more than replaced modern yeast, so if you for any reason do not eat yeast products - this recipe for a tasty and simple cake for you.
Ingredients:
- flour - 400 g;
- sourdough sour milk - 500 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- sugar - 1 item;
- raisins - 50 g;
- vanilla extract - ½ tsp;
- salt - a pinch;
- powdered sugar - for decoration.
Preparation
Before you bake an Easter cake, you need to activate our starter. To do this, pour a couple of tablespoons of flour to it, mix it and put it in a warm place. Once the leaven has increased in volume and is bubbling - take 500 ml for kneading the dough.
Proteins are traditionally whipped into a foam, and yolks whitewash with sugar. Add the vegetable oil, eggs, vanilla extract and flour to the dough, knead the dough and let it come in a warm place until it doubles in volume. In the next stage of cooking, you can add raisins, spread the dough on oiled forms and leave it again to go.
Baking yeast cake is carried out in stages: at 1 stage bake at a temperature of 100 degrees 15 minutes, and after increasing the temperature to 180 and continue cooking for another 30 minutes.
To the cake not to opal it is necessary to keep it in a warm place until it cools down completely (for example, under a blanket or in a cooling oven), and afterwards, decorating bezdozhzhevy cakes is made in a simple way - with the help of powdered sugar.
The recipe for a delicious custard cake
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 items;
- milk - 3 items;
- yeast - 50 g;
- eggs - 10 pieces;
- butter - 700 g;
- sugar - 2 items;
- dark rum - 50 ml;
- candied fruit - to taste.
Preparation
We make the flour with hot milk, and then we cool it to room temperature. Divorced in a small amount of warm milk yeast is added to the flour. We put the spoon to approach, and in the meantime we beat the proteins into the foam, and the yolks we rub with sugar. We add eggs to the doubled spoon, mix it, give it a second step, and add melted butter, rum and candied fruit. We spread the cakes into shapes, again wait until the dough is suitable and bake at 180 degrees for 30 minutes. The cooled down delicacy will perfectly decorate the icing for the cake from the first recipe.