2014-04-01

Easter cake traditional

Easter cake traditional
Ingredients
  • 100 ml milk
  • 7 g fast acting yeast
  • 40 g dark raisins
  • 40 g light raisins
  • 400 g flour + sprinkle a little more molds
  • 1/2 sachet of baking powder
  • 2 eggs
  • 100 g sugar
  • 1 sachet of vanilla sugar or vanillin
  • 1 tsp (no slide) salt
  • 120 g softened butter + some more oil
The creation of Easter cake - the main decoration of the Easter table - is akin to a sacrament. Since ancient times, the dough was kneaded from Thursday to Friday, then baked all day, and on Saturday they carried Easter cakes to the church to consecrate. There is such a sign: if you get beautiful, rich, rosy Easter cakes, then everything in the house will be happy and prosperous.

Traditional Easter cake recipe


1

Dissolve yeast in warm milk and stir. Soak the raisins in warm water for 15 minutes, then rinse well.

2

Mix flour with baking powder, add eggs, warm milk with yeast, sugar (regular and vanilla) and 1 tsp. salt.

3

Knead a homogeneous dough. Dry the raisins on a paper towel. Add raisins and softened butter to the dough. Knead the dough well again.

4

Forms for Easter cakes grease with butter, sprinkle with flour. Put the dough into molds to half the volume. Take it well.

5

Pour warm water (not boiling water) into a wide and deep tray and place the forms with the dough in it so that the water barely reaches half of the forms. Cover with a towel and let stand 30 minutes. Change the water to keep it always warm. The dough should double in volume.

6

Preheat oven to 170°C. Put the forms with the approached Easter cakes in a preheated oven and bake for 40-50 minutes.

7

Check for readiness by piercing the center of the cake with a skewer or toothpick: it should come out dry. Remove the cookies from the oven, cover with a towel and let them cool. Then remove from the form.

Easter cake with sweets "Korovka"

Ingredients:

  • 8-10 sweets "Korovka"

Recipe:

  1. Knead the doughless dough for Easter cakes with raisins according to the recipe above.
  2. Pour batter into greased cake pans, filling about 1/3 full.
  3. Put 1-2 "Korovka" sweets on top and press them lightly with your finger. Lay out the same amount of candy dough, filling the molds by about 2/3. Lightly flatten the dough, then let the cake rise in a tray of warm water as directed in the recipe. Follow recipe #1 as well.

Chocolate cake

Ingredients:

  • 100 g milk chocolate
  • 100 g dark chocolate

Recipe:

  1. Knead the dough without dough and soak the raisins according to recipe No. 1.
  2. Break dark and milk chocolate into small pieces, combine with raisins. Add to the dough, mix until the dough becomes homogeneous.
  3. Then follow recipe number 1.

Easter cake with marzipan

Ingredients:

  • 100 g marzipan

Recipe:

  1. Knead the dough for Easter cakes in a non-dough way, excluding raisins from it (recipe No. 1).
  2. Cut the marzipan into 1 cm cubes. Lubricate the cake molds with butter and sprinkle with flour. Fill the molds 1/4 full with dough, top with marzipan pieces, then more dough and more marzipan, half filling the molds. Leave the cakes in a warm, damp place for 30 minutes until the dough has doubled in size.
  3. Then follow recipe number 1.

Easter cake with cherries and cinnamon

Ingredients:

  • 20 g flour
  • 100 g thawed cherries
  • 50 g dried cherries
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 4 tbsp. l. Roma

Recipe:

  1. Take recipe number 1 as a basis. Remove raisins from the dough and add 20 g of flour.
  2. Remove pits from cherries. Soak dried and fresh cherries in rum, mix cinnamon with flour.
  3. Knead the dough (point 3 of recipe No. 1), adding cherries soaked in rum to it.
  4. Then follow recipe number 1.

Easter cake with nuts, prunes and boiled condensed milk

Ingredients:

  • 100 ml baked milk
  • 150 g prunes
  • 70 g walnuts
  • 2 tbsp. l. boiled condensed milk

Recipe:

  1. Prepare the dough for Easter cake in a non-dough way according to recipe No. 1, removing raisins from it, and replacing ordinary milk with baked milk.
  2. Cut prunes into small cubes. Instead of raisins, add prunes to the dough, as well as 70 g of chopped walnuts and 2 tbsp. l. boiled condensed milk.
  3. Knead the dough until smooth and then follow recipe number 1.

Easter cake with carrots

Ingredients:

  • 350 g grated carrots
  • 3 eggs
  • 1 sachet of baking powder
  • 100 g cane sugar
  • Zest of 2 oranges

Recipe:

  1. Peel the carrots, grate on a fine grater.
  2. Remove half the flour from Easter cake recipe No. 1, enter not 2 eggs, but 3, double the amount of baking powder and use cane sugar instead of regular sugar.
  3. Cook according to recipe #1 up to step 3. Together with raisins and softened butter, add grated carrots and finely grated orange zest. Mix well so that the dough becomes homogeneous.
  4. Then follow recipe number 1.

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