
Hello everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I gonna show you a way to prepare a special dish, Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake. It is one of my favorites food. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really deliciou
The Ingredients needed to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
- You need of Preferment
- You need 1/2 cup (120 ml) of warm milk
- Prepare 4 g of instant dry yeast
- Prepare 1 tsp of sugar
- Prepare 2 tsp of bread flour
- It’s of 💕For The Dough
- Prepare 4 cups (440 g) of bread flour
- You need 1/4 tsp of salt
- It’s 50 g of sugar
- It’s 120 ml of milk
- It’s 3 of eggs
- You need of Zest of an orange
- It’s 15 ml of vanilla extract
- You need 1 tsp of orange blossom water
- Prepare 60 g of soft unsalted butter
- It’s of 💕Fillings
- Prepare 2 cups of Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
- You need 150 g of dried apricots
- Prepare 1/2 cups of dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
- It’s of 💕For the decoration
- Prepare 1 of egg yolk
- You need 30 ml of milk
- Prepare 30 g of almond flakes
- It’s 30 g of pearl sugar
Step to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
- In a smaller bowl, Stir the yeast into the lukewarm milk 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, egg 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 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 minute
Flour the surface and roll the dough out to about 60 cm x 12 cm (24x 5). Sprinkle sugar, dried apricots, cranberrie 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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