Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is the day that families get together for a huge feast, unwrap presents (brought by the Three Wise Men/Kings), and head out to watch a parade of elaborately-decorated floats. The Three Kings: Santa's Little Subcontractors. The Roscón de Reyes (King's Cake) is my favourite part of Spanish Christmas. Any tradition that turns eating cake into a game is a win for me!
Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular 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 can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
- Make ready Preferment
- Get 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
- Get 4 g instant dry yeast
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Get 2 tsp bread flour
- Take 💕For The Dough
- Take 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
- Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
- Make ready 50 g sugar
- Make ready 120 ml milk
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Prepare Zest of an orange
- Make ready 15 ml vanilla extract
- Take 1 tsp orange blossom water
- Get 60 g soft unsalted butter
- Make ready 💕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)
- Make ready 💕For the decoration
- Make ready 1 egg yolk
- Take 30 ml milk
- Prepare 30 g almond flakes
- Take 30 g pearl sugar
They may also leave fresh water and lettuce for their camels. There is also a special cake to celebrate the "Día de Reyes" called the "Roscón de Reyes" which roughly translates to the "Wise Men Cake". Roscón De Reyes - Spain's Christmas Cake. Here in Spain, it's not usual to bake a Christmas cake, but there is one cake that every household will enjoy over the Christmas period - the Roscón de Reyes, or "The ring of the Kings.".
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.
Roscón De Reyes - Spain's Christmas Cake. Here in Spain, it's not usual to bake a Christmas cake, but there is one cake that every household will enjoy over the Christmas period - the Roscón de Reyes, or "The ring of the Kings.". In Spain and across the Spanish-speaking world, it's Roscón de reyes or rosca de reyes. Epiphany, or the feast of the three kings, is special in Spain. Traditionally, that's when Spanish children receive their gifts, delivered by the Magi rather than Father Christmas.
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