Sunday, March 22, 2020

Easter cake

Ingredients:
1 kg flour +/10 dkg extra
8 egg yolks
2 egg whites  for Coat
300 grams sugar  (i usualy use 200 grams)
200 grms  buter or margarine
20 gr dry yeast
2 teaspoons salt
4 vanilla sugar
2 grated oranges + 1 lemon,
 minced nutmeg
 1/2 liter milk but can also 0.45 dl cause dough is very soft that depend of you.


Preparation
1.
Heat the milk. Take some milk and make the yeast and melt it. Dissolve half the sugar and salt in the remaining milk. Margarine soften nicely but not melt. Put the flour in one bowl and place in the center of the whipped egg yolks, add the melted yeast soft butter or margarine and all the rest. Pour over with milk and mix with soft dough. Leave it in a warm place to double About 1-2 hours.

2.
Now comes the experience. Divide dough into 4 pieces for 4 cake. It has approximately 2.20 kg of dough, divide the marks into 550 grams. Divide each ball into three. Roll each ball round and grease (except the top) with soft butter or margarine and sprinkle with sugar. Let's put the last one under the others.

3.
Let it rise for about 45 minutes. Coat them with whipped egg whites and cut into three. Put the oven in a preheated oven for 180 10mins, cover with foil not to plan, 10 min at 160 and 10-15 min at 150. Check with a stick if it is dry then done.


4.
 Put powdered sugar and so little water in the bowl that the sugar is thick but liquid.
Pour over the powdered sugar and return to the oven for a short time to dry.