Easter cake recipes, Easter recipes.

There is nothing better than the Easter cooked by own hands. The fragrance of fresh baked goods will bring together all family members at the family table. Therefore, we offer you several recipes, how to cook Easter at home.

A classic Easter recipe:

For cooking you need: 500-600 g of flour

1.5 cups of milk

6 eggs 150-200 g of butter

2 cups of sugar

40-50 g of pressed yeast

50 g raisins

50 g of fruit candied fruits

50 g of dry almonds

A pinch of salt, vanillin or vanilla sugar to taste.

A little flour for sprinkling

Prepare the spoon. Dissolve yeast and one tablespoon of sugar in milk. Gradually add, stirring 150-200 g of sifted flour. Stir so that there are no lumps, and put in a warm place.

Separate the egg yolks. Put the proteins in the refrigerator. 5 yolks wipe with sugar that remained. Melt the butter and allow to cool to body temperature.

When the volume of the spoon is doubled, add yolks, rubbed with sugar, salt, vanillin and mix thoroughly.

Chilled proteins beat in foam and enter into the spoon. Then, stirring, add flour. The dough is kneaded until air bubbles appear in it. The dough should be well mixed, freely lagging behind the walls of the dishes. In consistency, it should be lighter than the dough for pies, but thicker than on pancakes.

Cover the dough and keep in a warm place until it increases several times. Raisins wash, dry and roll in flour. Cut the cucumbers into cubes, peel the almonds and chop them finely. Raisins, candied fruits and almonds add to the dough, carefully knead it for 5 minutes and put it again in a warm place.

Prepare forms for baking cakes. At the bottom of the form, place an oiled circle of parchment paper, apply oil on the walls and sprinkle with flour. Spread the risen into the forms (about 1/3 of the height), let the dough rise to the brim of the mold and grease the top of the cake with the remaining yolk.

Bake cakes at a temperature of 180 ° C until cooked, for 40-60 minutes, from time to time gently turning the mold. If you do not stick the dough to a stuck wooden spoke, then the cake is ready. After the surfaces of the cake have become browned, cover them with mugs of paper soaked in water.

Ready cakes carefully pull out of the molds, put them sideways on a soft pillow, toweled, cover with another towel and allow to cool, from time to time turning in order to make the cooling process smoother.

Decoration

Here are the main types of jewelry:

• glaze;

• Whipped egg whites;

• melted chocolate;

• chocolate figures;

• Marzipan figurines;

• Cocktail cherries.

Additives in dough

In the above recipe, the following additives are added to the dough:

• raisins;

• Candied fruits;

• vanilla;

• Almonds.

By the way, to separate almonds from the skin, it should be held for 2 minutes in boiling water.

Also popular other additives:

• brandy, rum, strong tinctures;

• grated zest;

• saffron;

• cinnamon;

• cardamom;

• Muscat color;

• lemon or rose oil.