Easter cakes according to my grandmother's recipe, when she baked such Easter cakes for Easter, she said that this is how we did it in cooking. This year I decided to bake in this version. By the way, you can take your favorite dough for Easter cakes.
Recipe:
- flour -500-550 gr
- milk -300 ml
- sugar -150 gr
- vanillin -1 pack
- butter -100 gr
- egg -1 pc
- high-speed yeast -25 gr
- sugar -1 tbsp.
- water -50 ml
- walnuts or raisins -150 gr
COOKING METHOD:
So, let's start cooking.
First, check the yeast, pour 50 ml of warm water into a bowl, add raw yeast 25 grams and 1 tbsp. sugar, mix everything, leave for 10 minutes.
Melt 100 grams of butter and leave to cool. Pour the tested yeast into a deep bowl, they should begin to bubble and a “foam cap” will form.
pour 300 ml of warm milk, break 1 egg, add 150 grams of sugar and vanillin, pour in butter, add half a tsp. salt and gradually add the sifted flour, knead the dough. The dough needs to be well kneaded, I need about 550 grams of flour, I grease my hands with vegetable oil and knead the dough for 10 minutes, you can use a dough mixer, which I usually do.
Now we set the dough to rise for 1 hour, during this time the dough should increase in volume, then we take out the dough and knock it out and do this 3-4 times, it takes 2-4 hours in time.
Before the last raising of the dough, stir in the filler. Raisins, dried cranberries, etc., I have walnuts today.
We shift the finished dough to the table, punch down, separate a little dough for decoration.
Divide the rest of the dough into molds. I bake such Easter cakes in such forms, the Easter cakes move away from them well and bake. By the way, in such forms I also bake homemade bread.
I grease the molds with oil and slightly increase the edges with baking paper.
I fill out the form by 1/3, leave it until the dough rises in the form. As the dough in the form begins to reach the edge, I take the reserved dough from it and make 2 long flagella, so that you can make a rim along the edge of the form. With a knife I make cuts on both sides, such Christmas trees should turn out.
And I make 4 more small flagella. We make a cross out of small flagella, put a cut flagellum in a circle.
put in the oven and bake at 170 degrees until cooked for 30-40 minutes. If the top is browning, cover it with foil.
and bring to readiness, you can check with a wooden skewer.
We take out the finished cakes from the mold, let them cool.
This is how beautiful they are. Happy Easter to you.
You can see the details and preparation details in my short video below:
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