Christmas is the most pleasant childhood memory, and it is associated with gifts, a joyful mood in anticipation of something fabulous and, of course, with delicious pastries that fill the whole house with their aroma. Many countries traditionally prepare a Christmas cake for these holidays. This is a special baking, which has its own nuances and a certain technology. It is necessary to cook Christmas cupcakes in advance. Recipes with photos can be found in this article.
Easiest recipe
Let's start with the simplest cupcake, which can be prepared without too much time and with a small amount of ingredients. You will need 250 grams of butter, a glass of sugar, 500 grams of sour cream, 6 eggs, 100 grams of chopped nuts, 600 grams of flour, one small spoonful of cinnamon, honey and soda, and a pinch of salt. Pound the butter with sugar until the mass becomes very light and uniform. Add honey (melt a little) and cinnamon to it.
We also spread sour cream, salt, flour and soda. The last thing we add is whipped to a lush foam proteins. It turns out the dough consistency as a good thick sour cream. We heat the oven to 180 degrees and put in it a greased form with dough. A quick Christmas cupcake will be baked for about an hour.
Italian traditions
Each country prepares its traditional dishes for the winter holidays. In Italy, the Christmas muffin is called Panettone. It is prepared from yeast dough, which is not completely baked. Raisins and candied fruits are added to the Italian cupcake . Serve it with coffee or hot chocolate. It will take about 10 hours to cook, but the time spent will be more than paid off when you try this wonderful baking.
Italian Cupcake Recipe
You need to take 850 grams of flour, 180 grams of butter, 25 grams of fresh yeast, one egg + 4 yolks, 180 grams of brown sugar, 150 grams of raisins (seedless) and 140 grams of candied fruits (oranges and lemons). Pour a little warm water into the container and dissolve the yeast in it. Then add 100 grams of well-sifted flour and mix lightly. Leave the dough in a warm place, covering it with a towel. After three hours, add some more water and 100 grams of flour. Stir the mixture and leave it for another two hours. It will make a wonderful dough for dough. Pour the remaining flour onto the table and make a small deepening inside. We put in it soft butter, egg + 4 yolks, sugar and salt. Knead the dough for about 20 minutes to make an elastic mass.
Raisins must first be soaked in water. Mix the dough with dough and knead well. Add raisins, sliced candied fruits and mix everything again. We remove the dough in a warm place for 4 hours. During this time, it should double. The test mold must be greased with oil, otherwise it will stick to the walls. Then we heat the oven to 220 degrees and put the form in it. In the test, make a cross-shaped incision in the center and put a piece of butter in it. Bake an Italian Christmas muffin for about 45 minutes. Top should get a beautiful crust. Cool the pastries and serve.
Tangerine cupcake
This baking is very fragrant and delicious. To prepare a Christmas cake with tangerines, you need to take two juicy tangerines, 150 grams of dried fruit, 170 grams of butter, 130 grams of sugar, 50 grams of orange liquor, three eggs, 125 grams of flour, 50 grams of powdered sugar and 20 grams of baking powder. Peel the tangerine and leave it to dry. We take out all the products in advance from the refrigerator so that they are at room temperature. Pour dried fruits with liquor and leave for a while. Heat the butter in a pan or stewpan and add a spoonful of sugar to it. Then fry the tangerine slices for about a minute on each side.
We get them on a plate and cool. Then put the dried fruits in a frying pan and warm them up so that the liquor evaporates. They must also be cooled. Beat butter with sugar until lush consistency for about 5 minutes. Next, add the eggs gradually, continuing to beat. After this, pour the sifted flour mixed with baking powder and put the dried fruits. Knead the dough, which should be thick. Then we spread it in a greased form, shifting layers of tangerine slices. Bake a Christmas cake with tangerines for about an hour at a temperature of 180 degrees. Sprinkle it with powdered sugar on top and serve.
German adit
The German Christmas cupcake adit is amazing pastries in taste and aroma. Prepare it in advance, three weeks before the holiday. The taste of the cake also depends on the storage time of the cake. In the old days, this dish was prepared in large quantities in Germany, and then stored until spring and consumed as needed. Traditionally, a Christmas cake in this country is prepared for the family and for guests. There are no eggs in it, but there are a lot of nuts, spices and candied fruits.
Essential Products
All products are given in quantities calculated for two large cupcakes so that you can please not only the family, but also numerous relatives. You need to take 1.5 kilograms of good flour, 500 grams of butter, 400 milliliters of milk, 100 grams of fresh yeast, 500 grams of sweet almonds and a few pieces of bitter fruit, 700 grams of raisins, 70 grams of orange and as many lemon candied fruits, zest and juice of medium lemon, a small spoonful of salt, a little rum or cognac, vanilla and cinnamon to taste, 200 grams of butter and a lot of icing sugar for soaking.
The technology of adit
At least 6 hours soak the raisins in cognac. We also get food from the refrigerator (except milk) so that it warms up to room temperature. We begin to prepare the Christmas adit cupcake in the morning. We warm the milk a little and breed yeast with a little sugar in it. Be sure to sift the flour to make the dough airy. Add half the flour to the bowl and knead the dough. We leave it in a warm place for 30-50 minutes. During this time, it should increase. Now you can knead the dough. Add all sugar, salt, soft butter and flour to the dough.
Knead the dough and leave it to fit. During this time, you can prepare the rest of the ingredients. Grind the almonds, but not very much. We take out raisins from liquor and slightly squeeze. We cut off the zest of the lemon and squeeze the juice into a separate bowl. The dough that came up should be lightly kneaded and mixed with raisins, lemon zest, candied fruit, vanilla, cinnamon, lemon juice and nuts. Once again, mix everything well. It should be a dense and heavy dough. If necessary, add more flour. Knead the dough and leave it for 3 hours in a warm place. During this time, you will have to knead it 1-2 times. Then we divide it into two parts and form both in the form of loaves. We spread the cupcakes on a greased baking sheet and make longitudinal cuts to the side. Foil rims can be made to make the right Christmas cupcakes. Recipes are not complicated, but take time.
We leave the cupcakes for 30 minutes to come up, and put them in the oven, heated to 200 degrees. After 15 minutes, reduce the temperature to 170 degrees and cook for about 40 minutes. When the muffins have cooled, grease them with melted butter very plentifully. Then pour a thick layer of powdered sugar. Wrap the finished Christmas cake in foil and put it in a bag. Store it in a tightly closed container. For cooking, it is better to take very good butter. Its taste is largely dependent on this product. Also, if desired, you can add spices to the Christmas cupcake with dried fruits (cardamom, cloves or nutmeg). This baking should be infused, so they cook it three weeks before the celebration.
English traditions
Each country or region has its own tradition of making a Christmas cake. The English recipe is distinguished by its originality and pedantry. Residents of this country honor traditions and observe technology with great accuracy. How to make an English Christmas cake? The recipe cannot be called complicated, but you have to work hard to get an amazing result. This dish is prepared in advance so that the cupcake has time to brew. And the process itself lasts about two weeks. During this time, the cupcake is saturated with alcohol, which gives it a delicious taste and aroma. Alcohol evaporates, but there remains a taste. Bake a Christmas cake for about 4 hours at a low temperature.
Cooking an English Cupcake
A lot of people make Christmas muffins. Recipes with photos in large numbers are available on the Internet. But in order to cook an original dish, one must strictly follow the recipe. To prepare a traditional English cake, we take 225 grams of sifted flour, the same amount of butter, warmed to room temperature, the same amount of brown sugar, a pinch of salt, 4 chicken eggs not small in size, one and a half teaspoons of a mixture of spices (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger and cloves), 50 grams of pistachios and hazelnuts, 100 grams of almonds, 700 grams of any dried fruit, a spoonful of dark syrup, such as maple (but can be replaced with not thick honey), half a vanilla bean , 150 milliliters of cognac, a zest of one orange ina and any glaze (light).
Soak dried fruits in cognac in advance for a day or more. We begin to prepare a Christmas cupcake, a photo of which will amaze with its beauty.
We grease the
baking dish with oil and, if necessary, cover it with baking paper. We take out the oil from the refrigerator so that it is warm, and cut it into cubes. Remove the zest from the orange and grind it. Preheat the oven to 150 degrees and fry nuts in it for 10 minutes. We mix them with dried fruits, which we get from brandy and slightly squeeze. If the dried fruits are large, then cut them into pieces. Beat butter with sugar and add syrup, zest and vanilla to this mixture. After that, we begin to drive one egg at a time. Also, add a little flour and constantly beat. It turns out an airy mixture of sour cream, a pleasant beige color. Next, add nuts and dried fruits and mix well.
We spread the dough into a mold and put in the oven, heated to 150 degrees. After an hour and a half, the pastries will darken slightly. At this point, lower the temperature to 130 degrees and bake our Christmas cake for another 3 hours. To prevent the top of the baking from burning, you can put foil or baking paper on top. We take the finished cupcake out of the oven and remove the form. At the base of the cake, we make punctures and pour cognac there. When it is absorbed, wrap the baked goods in paper and foil and leave them in a tightly closed container. After some time, still soak the cupcake with cognac. We continue to do this for 2 weeks. Before serving, cover the cupcake with icing or marzipan and decorate with nuts and fruits in sugar.
Limoncello Cupcake
This is another unusual recipe. Thanks to the unusual impregnation, the cupcake acquires an unusual taste. For cooking, you will need orange zest, 250 grams of well-sifted flour, 100 grams of butter, a bag of baking powder, 100 grams of powdered sugar, three chicken eggs, 50 grams of marzipan and 150 milliliters of low-fat cream. For impregnation, we will use orange juice, two sticks of cinnamon, 100 milliliters of water, 150 grams of brown sugar and 100 milliliters of limoncello liquor. Beat soft butter and half sugar. Separately, using a mixer, mix the remaining sugar and eggs. You should get white airy foam. Combine these two mixtures and add the cream. We mix everything well. Cut the zest of orange and cut it into thin medium-sized straws. Then we spread it into the total mass along with marzipan.
After that, we introduce the flour mixed with a baking powder, and mix everything well. A homogeneous mass should be obtained. Then we lay out the dough in one greased form or in special molds for muffins. It should be borne in mind that when baking, the dough will rise by a third. Put the muffins in the oven for 30 minutes and cook at a temperature of 180 degrees. Readiness check wooden skewer. We take the baked goods out of the mold and leave for a while. Now we will do the impregnation. From sugar, water and cinnamon we cook syrup. Then add orange juice and liquor to them. Remove from heat and cool the impregnation. Before serving, cut the baking into pieces and pour them with impregnation. Serve delicious Christmas muffins to the table. Recipes offer to stand them for several days, but even without this a very tasty treat is obtained.
Fruit muffin
This cupcake does not need to be kept for a long time. You can eat it immediately after cooking. A large number of dried fruits and spicy spices give it an unusual taste. Take 300 grams of dark and light raisins, 100 grams of dried cherries, 400 grams of various dried fruits, 100 grams of honey, 225 grams of butter, 150 milliliters of an alcoholic drink (sherry, brandy and madeira), three eggs, 180 grams of sugar, 230 grams of sifted flour, a third of a small spoonful of cinnamon, a quarter teaspoon of ginger, nutmeg, 120 grams of walnuts and a pinch of salt. For glaze, you need one protein and 150 grams of sugar. Dried fruits are cut into pieces and put in a bowl. Add raisins and cherries to them and fill them with an alcoholic drink.
Leave this mixture for at least an hour. Beat butter with sugar and add a little eggs. Mix flour with spices and salt and pour into the dough. Then we spread dried fruits there, which should be squeezed slightly. We spread the dough in the prepared form and put in the oven, which we warm up to 140 degrees. The cupcake will be ready in about 2-2.5 hours. Cool it slightly and remove it from the mold. Beat egg white with sugar and cover the resulting icing cake. Top can be decorated as desired.
Cupcake in a bread maker
To make the task easier, you can make a Christmas cake in a bread maker. To do this, you will need three eggs, 40 grams of butter, 150 grams of sugar, a pinch of vanilla, 175 grams of flour and one and a half small spoons of baking powder. Beat eggs with sugar until lush foam and pour into the bowl of the bread machine. Then add butter, which should be soft. After this, pour flour with baking powder and put vanilla. Close the lid and set the cake baking program. Then the clever technique will do everything itself. It only remains to wait for the signal of readiness and pull out the finished cupcake. It does not need to be stored or soaked.
Conclusion
If you want to make real Christmas pastries, then use these recipes. They are all different and each is good in its own way. A self-made cupcake with love will amaze households and guests. It will become the decoration of the festive table and your traditional dish, because it is impossible to refuse such a treat.