Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake
Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake

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To begin with this recipe, we have to 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:
  1. Take Preferment
  2. Get 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
  3. Get 4 g instant dry yeast
  4. Prepare 1 tsp sugar
  5. Prepare 2 tsp bread flour
  6. Make ready 💕For The Dough
  7. Get 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
  8. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
  9. Prepare 50 g sugar
  10. Make ready 120 ml milk
  11. Prepare 3 eggs
  12. Take Zest of an orange
  13. Prepare 15 ml vanilla extract
  14. Make ready 1 tsp orange blossom water
  15. Make ready 60 g soft unsalted butter
  16. Prepare 💕Fillings
  17. Make ready 2 cups Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
  18. Take 150 g dried apricots
  19. Take 1/2 cups dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
  20. Make ready 💕For the decoration
  21. Make ready 1 egg yolk
  22. Get 30 ml milk
  23. Make ready 30 g almond flakes
  24. Make ready 30 g pearl sugar
Steps to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
  1. In a smaller bowl, Stir the yeast into the lukewarm milk & flour. Cover & let it double in size. (1)
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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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