Crumble the yeast and pour 0.5 cups of warm boiled water, mash with hand and add 1 tablespoon sugar and 1 tablespoon flour.

3 tablespoons flour, pour 150 ml of boiling milk, quickly stir and if there are lumps, then RUB through a sieve.

Mix the infused milk with the flour with yeast mixture, mix and allow to rise.

The remaining warm boiled milk to pour in the yeast mixture and add the sifted flour so that the dough was as pancakes. And in a warm place to approach. Here the dough has approached.

Dry soak the raisins with boiling water, then drain the water, dry well and mix with the starch.

We will need 3 eggs.

RUB the eggs with sugar, vanilla, salt.

To egg mixture add softened butter, stir well.

Add approached the dough egg-sugar mixture.

And raisins.

Then add gradually the sifted flour to make a soft, slightly stick dough. Flour the dough not to score! Hands and table grease with vegetable oil and knead well (knock out) the dough until it stops sticking to hands and table. Cover with a towel and leave to approach in a warm place.

The test takes three approaches. The first 2 times the dough down with your hand. After the third approach, the dough again knead.

Forms for cake grease with vegetable oil. The dough to spread on 1/3 of the volume. To give a good rise and bake in preheated oven 25-35 minutes (depending on form size) at 200 degrees, then another 10 minutes at 180 degrees.

Ready mud pies spread on a clean towel sideways, after 5 minutes flip to the other side. Cover with a towel.

Hot grease frosting and decorate at will. I got a problem... I didn't have enough eggs for the glaze. But it doesn't matter! We have the Internet! I searched and found the perfect icing, which does not crumble. 1 teaspoon of gelatin pour 2 tablespoons of water for 5 minutes. 1 Cup sugar to combine with 4 tablespoons of water, heat on low heat until the sugar is dissolved. In the obtained syrup, add the swollen gelatin and mix well to dissolve the gelatin. Then beat with a mixer until white, about 2-3 minutes. Allow to cool to lukewarm. Then I did: glaze was divided into 2 parts and one part was added 2 teaspoons of cocoa. Are well mixed. You can make several colors using turmeric, beet juice and carrot juice. Then brush coated the cake with white frosting. The top dripped a little brown icing and made the stains with toothpick. The glaze will thicken after 5 minutes. If your frosting has thickened before covering cakes, you can add 1 tablespoon hot water and stir.

Here's a braid I did.

Actually, I got 10 miles from anywhere and 2 braids. Just one braid did not live up to the frosting and photo shoots...

Now frozen frosting.

Here is the cake in the cut. It does not crumble!

And this is the fault of the spit. Help yourself to health! It is very tasty and very tender...