Easter cake home

Do not forget to treat yourself to a delicious Easter cake of homemade pastries of your friends and relatives! They will definitely like it!

Easter cake home

To make an Easter cake, you will need:

• 
  milk 0.5 liters


• 
  flour - 1-1,3 kg


• 
  dry yeast - 11 g (you can take 50-60 g of conventional pressed yeast)


• 
  eggs - 6 pcs.


• 
  butter or margarine - 200 g


• 
  sugar - 250-300 g


• 
  raisins - 300 g


• 
  sugar vanilla - 1 tsp.


• 
  glaze:
  
  
  
  • 
    egg whites - 2 pcs.
  
  
  • 
    sugar - 100 g
  
  
  
  

Preparation:

In slightly warmed milk, dissolve the yeast. It is important not to overheat the milk, so that the yeast is not "cooked"!

Add 0.5 kg of flour to the milk, mix thoroughly. Put in a warm place for about 30 minutes. Opara should increase approximately twice.

While the opara insists, prepare the eggs. Separate yolks from proteins. Rinse the yolks with sugar, add vanilla sugar. Whip the whites into a foam, adding a little salt.

Add yolks to the matched opaque, mix. Add soft butter or margarine, stir. Add the egg whites, mix.

Using the remaining flour, knead the dough, steep enough (but not too much!) To not stick to your hands.

Ready to leave the dough in a warm place for 50-60 minutes to come.

Wash and shredded raisins soak in warm water. After 10-15 minutes, drain the water, dry the raisins a little, add dough to the dough. Dough again put in a warm place for lifting.

Approached the test fill in 2/3 oiled form for Easter cakes. Cover with a towel and let the dough rise again.

Bake in the oven Easter cake home is as follows. At 100 ° C bake cakes for 10 minutes, then increase the temperature in the oven to 180 ° C and continue baking cakes until cooked.

The readiness of Easter cakes is determined by a match or toothpick.

Ready-made cake is covered with protein glaze (whisk egg whites with sugar), decorated with colored powder at will.

Bon Appetit!