It is impossible to give one single recipe for Easter and Easter cake. Anyone interested in self-cooking Easter for the first time will be amazed by the great variety of various recipes for making Easter or Easter cake. Each Easter and Easter cake recipe has the same basic ingredients, but differs in many different additives. Each additive gives the product a unique taste and aroma.
Each Easter and Easter cake recipe can be safely compared with a work of art, without exaggeration. Even people far from religion recognize their excellent palatability and enjoy eating.
Easter cake (easter)
Components:
Fresh, traditional yeast, (50g)
Half a liter of milk
Flour, (1kg)
Sugar, (350g)
Medium sized eggs (6 pcs)
Butter, loose, (200g)
Sugar, vanilla, (1 packet / 1 tsp.)
To taste - orange zest
On request - raisins, (200g)
Cognac or liquor, (75g)
Cooking Easter cake:
Prepare milk by heating it a little higher than the temperature in the room. Dissolve crushed yeast in warm milk. When adding in parts, mix well in the mixture half of the prepared flour, half a kilo. Then cover the mixture with a towel and set aside in a warm place.
Separate the egg yolks and whites in a separate bowl. The separated proteins should be beaten until a lush white mass is formed, with a mixer or whisk. Sugar should be added to the separated yolks and rub well.
Wait until the dough rises, which will happen about an hour after it has been prepared and set aside in a warm place. After add to it a mixture of sugar with yolk. Then add the loosened butter and mix well.
Add the prepared whipped protein mass to the resulting dough and mix well again.
Add the rest of the flour to the dough, half a kilo, and mix well with your hands. After transferring the dough to the pan, cover with a towel and let stand for an hour in a warm place.
Grind the orange zest with a knife. Pour raisins with boiling water for half an hour, for swelling. After mixing the raisins and chopped orange zest, adding vanilla and cognac. Add the resulting mixture to the dough and mix well. Put the dough back in a warm place for an hour or two.
Prepare Easter baking tins by greasing the inside with butter. Put the dough in them, only a third of the height.
To make the dough a little more “fit”, leave the forms on the plate for half an hour.
Kulich is baked until cooked in the oven, preheated in advance. The time for baking will depend on the selected size of the molds, so it’s better to bake at the same time better molds of the same size.
To make the glaze, beat the protein with sugar. Pour the cake with protein. You can decorate Easter cake by sprinkling with poppy seeds and other pastry sprinkles on top.
Easter (curd)
Components:
Butter (butter), (200g)
Cottage cheese, (1 kg)
Eggs (5pcs)
Sugar, (200g)
Sugar, vanilla, (1 packet / 1 tsp.)
Cream, (400ml, up to 20%)
Nuts, (to taste)
Raisins, (100g)
Candied fruits, (100g)
Cooking Easter :
The recipe for Easter and Easter cake is designed to prepare Easter in the amount of 2 pieces, 10 cm high and 12 cm in diameter.
Cottage cheese should be crushed using a sieve or meat grinder. Add the loosened butter to it and mix well.
With sugar, until complete dissolution beat eggs, add vanilla, add cream.
Bring the resulting mass to a boil over medium heat. The mass should be boiled until a thick state that takes only a few minutes from the beginning of the boil. After cooking, cool a little.
Grind nuts and candied fruits, you can use a knife. Prepare the mixture by adding and mixing cottage cheese, nuts, candied fruits, washed and dried raisins.
Mix the resulting mass with the previously prepared whipped mixture of eggs, sugar, vanilla, cream.
The resulting mass is brought to a homogeneous state by stirring. After, it should be laid out in prepared forms.
If there are no ready-made forms, then you can use any container that is suitable in shape and size. You can put the mass even in a flower pot.
The form should be laid out with gauze folded in several layers, leaving part of the gauze freely hanging from the edges.
Put the finished mass in the form. Wrap the edges of the gauze and place the mold in a bowl for draining the whey. Above should be put on top of the form, which will completely remove the serum from the mass. In a cold place, put the form with oppression (refrigerator or basement) for 11 hours.
Then, get Easter out of the mold by removing the cheesecloth. Turn over Easter and decorate its upper part. Decoration to taste.