English Easter cake Russian lad

Description

Is in the UK Easter cake "Simnel", a close relative of our cakes, this cake recipes - cake a great many, but unlike our near and dear ones of the Cake he baked with baking powder. I suggest You make a kind of hybrid of these two sister cities. From cakes take yeast pastry, and from the English fellow spicy and fruity aroma. On top of our cake, cover with marzipan and icing of white chocolate. Decorated with traditional English cake's eleven marzipan balls according to the number of the faithful apostles. The cake is insanely fragrant and moderately sweet.

Ingredients

Almonds

300 g
Condensed milk

190 g
Chicken egg

1 piece
Powdered sugar

750 g
Flour

2 cup
Wholegrain wheat flour

2 cup
Cream

200 ml
Chicken egg

3 piece
Butter

50 g
Raisins

3 handful
Sugar

5 Tbsp
Yeast

6 g
Salt

0.5 tsp
Cardamom

1 tsp
Cinnamon

1 tsp
Vanilla sugar

2 tsp
Nutmeg

1 tsp
Ginger

0.5 tsp
Orange zest
Lemon peel
Jam

3 Tbsp
White chocolate

100 g
Butter

25 g

Cooking

Let's start with the preparation of marzipan, it is not quite the classic and for modeling tricky elements just will not work. But will give our cake a pleasant flavour. Nuts pour boiling water, allow to cool. Then drain off the water, and the nuts are cleaned from the skin. Spread on a towel and let them dry. Then fry the almonds in a pan until Golden color.

Grind nuts into flour, add the condensed milk and half of powdered sugar, and egg. carefully vymeshivayut. Then begin to enter into our mass of the remaining powder to mass produce thick and does not stick to hands. Wrap in cling film and refrigerate.

For the dough pour in a saucepan the cream, add the butter, sugar and salt. Put it on the stove and heated to a temperature of 40 degrees. Remove from heating, add the zest and eggs, stir well. Let's prepare the spices. Add them to the egg cream mixture

Add the yeast cake and allow to stand for 10-15 minutes until the yeast starts to work.

In a bowl sift 3 cups of flour. My raisins.

Pour yeast mixture into flour and stir until smooth.

Then gradually introduce the last Cup of flour, to obtain the elastic does not stick to hands dough. (flour, depending on its quality, you may need more or less.) Remove the dough to a bowl, cover, allow to rest for half an hour.

After half an hour take the dough cut in half. Prepare a baking dish 24cm. Cover it with parchment the bottom and sides. Take half the dough and roll out into a circle, place it at the bottom of the form, grease with 1 tbsp of jam (jam I have a home and pretty liquid).

Take a piece of marzipan, roll out to a thickness of 5mm. cut out a circle the diameter of the cake.

Stacked on the first layer of our cake. Roll out into a circle the second half of the dough, put on the marzipan., cover the form with cling film and put to rest in a warm place for 1 hour. Then preheat the oven to 200 degrees. Before baking lightly crush the middle of the cake, it is necessary that he is not much utulsa pacentro, and bake the cake for 30-40 minutes until tender.

Hot cake remove from the form, we cover with jam. Allow to cool.

When the cake has cooled roll out another layer of marzipan cut out a circle the desired diameter and cover the top of the cake.

For the glaze melt chocolate with butter in a water bath and pour the cake leaving a bit of glaze. Remove the cake in the freezer for 5-10 minutes. Roll balls of marzipan 11pcs Get the cake and spread the balls on top of the cake. Every little drips of glaze.

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