Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake
Chester White 28/07/2020 18:26
Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:
Prepare Preferment
Get 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
Prepare 4 g instant dry yeast
Get 1 tsp sugar
Prepare 2 tsp bread flour
Take 💕For The Dough
Take 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
Take 1/4 tsp salt
Get 50 g sugar
Prepare 120 ml milk
Prepare 3 eggs
Prepare Zest of an orange
Prepare 15 ml vanilla extract
Prepare 1 tsp orange blossom water
Make ready 60 g soft unsalted butter
Take 💕Fillings
Get 2 cups Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
Prepare 150 g dried apricots
Prepare 1/2 cups dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
Get 💕For the decoration
Make ready 1 egg yolk
Get 30 ml milk
Get 30 g almond flakes
Prepare 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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