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Howard Neal 02/07/2020 05:11
Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
Make ready Preferment
Get 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
Prepare 4 g instant dry yeast
Get 1 tsp sugar
Take 2 tsp bread flour
Make ready 💕For The Dough
Take 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
Take 50 g sugar
Make ready 120 ml milk
Take 3 eggs
Make ready Zest of an orange
Take 15 ml vanilla extract
Make ready 1 tsp orange blossom water
Take 60 g soft unsalted butter
Make ready 💕Fillings
Prepare 2 cups Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
Get 150 g dried apricots
Take 1/2 cups dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
Take 💕For the decoration
Take 1 egg yolk
Prepare 30 ml milk
Make ready 30 g almond flakes
Prepare 30 g pearl sugar
Steps to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
In a smaller bowl, Stir the yeast into the lukewarm milk & flour. Cover & let it double in size. (1)
For the dough: In a standing mixing bowl with a dough hook, add flour, sugar, salt & (1), milk, eggs. Mix for about 10 minutes until the dough becomes fluffy. Meanwhile put orange zest, vanilla, butter and knead well until the dough is smooth & elastic. To enhance orange flavor, add a tsp of orange blossom water. Place the dough in a bowl, cover and leave in a moderately warm place to double in size.
Turn the dough out onto a surface and knead for 3-4 minutes. - Flour the surface and roll the dough out to about 60 cm x 12 cm (24"x 5"). Sprinkle sugar, dried apricots, cranberries. Roll the dough very carefully. With a knife, cut the dough in half. Put one side over & over & make like a braid.
Transfer the dough into a greased pan. Let the dough rest about 30 minutes then brush with egg mixture. Sprinkle pearl sugar on top of it.
Preheat the oven at 170oC. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 25-30 minutes – check after 15 minutes and cover with aluminum foil if the top gets too dark. The roscón should get a nice golden color on top. Take out of the oven and let cool down completely. Best served warm.
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