Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
- Get Preferment
- Prepare 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
- Prepare 4 g instant dry yeast
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Prepare 2 tsp bread flour
- Get 💕For The Dough
- Take 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Prepare 50 g sugar
- Prepare 120 ml milk
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Prepare Zest of an orange
- Make ready 15 ml vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 tsp orange blossom water
- Prepare 60 g soft unsalted butter
- Take 💕Fillings
- Make ready 2 cups Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
- Get 150 g dried apricots
- Prepare 1/2 cups dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
- Make ready 💕For the decoration
- Get 1 egg yolk
- Make ready 30 ml milk
- Prepare 30 g almond flakes
- Make ready 30 g pearl sugar
Instructions 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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