Steps to Make Any-night-of-the-week Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake
by Sarah Baldwin
Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
Make ready Preferment
Make ready 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
Prepare 4 g instant dry yeast
Make ready 1 tsp sugar
Prepare 2 tsp bread flour
Get 💕For The Dough
Get 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
Take 50 g sugar
Take 120 ml milk
Make ready 3 eggs
Get Zest of an orange
Get 15 ml vanilla extract
Make ready 1 tsp orange blossom water
Prepare 60 g soft unsalted butter
Get 💕Fillings
Take 2 cups Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
Make ready 150 g dried apricots
Make ready 1/2 cups dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
Take 💕For the decoration
Prepare 1 egg yolk
Take 30 ml milk
Take 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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