Easter cake on choux pastry with sugar icing

Kitchen appliances and utensils: gas or electric surface, oven, mixer, kitchen scale, thermos, stewpan, whisk, measuring cup, tablespoon, 2 medium bowls, teaspoon, baking spatula, large bowl, cling film, sieve, metal mold with a diameter of 12 cm and height 8 cm, paper form with a diameter of 9 cm and a height of 9 cm, fork, baking brush, towel, paper napkins.

Ingredients

Step cooking

For convenience, all work on Easter cakes was divided into several stages.

Brewing baked milk for dough

• Pour 135 ml of milk into the stewpan and bring to a boil. Reduce temperature and boil for 10 minutes. For the test you will need 125 ml, but, taking into account evaporation, take milk with a supply.
• Pour milk into a thermos and let it steam for about 30 minutes. Using such a simple way, you will get baked milk, which has a richer taste, and prolong the freshness of baking.
• Measure out 125 ml of warm milk and set aside to cool.

Cooking dough

1. Grind 8 g of pressed yeast into a bowl.
   
2. Add 1 tsp. sugar and 40 ml of warm baked milk. Stir the prepared ingredients and leave the yeast for 10-15 minutes. Pour 85 ml of warm milk into the stewpan. Add to it 30 g of butter. Place a container of ingredients on the hob and bring them to a boil.
   
3. In a large bowl for kneading dough, pour 1 tbsp. l flour and pour boiling milk with butter. When brewing the mass, stir with a whisk. Let the mixture cool to room temperature. Add the previously prepared yeast to the cooled mass and mix well with a whisk.
   
4. Cover the bowl with cling film and put in a warm place for fermentation for 30-40 minutes.
   

Preparation of yolks and proteins

1. In a small container, separate 2 yolks, add a whisper of salt and 30 g of sugar to them.
   
2. Grind the mass with a whisk until the consistency of the cream.
   
3. Beat egg whisk until foam appears with a mixer. Gradually adding the remaining 30 g of granulated sugar, beat the proteins until stable peaks appear.
   

Kneading dough

1. In the finished dough, add the yolk mass and ½ tbsp. l vegetable oil.
   
2. Melt the remaining 30 g of butter in a saucepan and cool it. Mix the ingredients well with a spatula and gently inject the whipped proteins.
   
3. Add the remaining 220 g flour to the bowl and start kneading the dough. Gradually add melted butter. Knead the dough well for 15-20 minutes. The dough should be soft, smooth and not sticky to your hands. Round the finished dough for Easter cakes and put in a bowl pre-oiled with vegetable oil. Cover it with cling film and leave to ferment for 1 hour.
   

Preparation of raisins and candied fruits

1. You will need 50 g of raisins.Rinse it and place in a saucepan. Pour raisins with 50 ml of orange juice, bring to a boil and let it cool. Add 20 g of chopped candied orange to the raisins. Mix raisins and candied fruits, leave them to insist 30-40 minutes.
   
2. Using a sieve, drain the juice from them and dry with paper towels. To the prepared candied fruits and raisins add 1 tbsp. l flour, roll them and sift through a sieve to remove excess flour.
   

The final stage of kneading and baking cakes

1. When the dough is good, add raisins and candied fruits. To knead the dough well, you need 5-7 minutes.
   
2. Cover the dough with a bowl and let it sit for another 40 minutes. Lubricate the baking dish with butter.
   
3. Without cheating, separate 190 g of dough for a small Easter cake, give it a rounded appearance and place it in a paper form. From the remaining dough, form a ball and place in a metal mold. Cover the blanks with foil and leave to fit for 1 hour.
   
4. Beat 1 egg and grease cakes with it before baking. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
   
5. Bake a small cake for 30 minutes, and a large one for 10 minutes longer.
   

Quick glaze on milk

1. In a small bowl, weigh 100 g of powdered sugar. While stirring, add 3-4 tbsp to the powder. l hot milk. Mix the ingredients until smooth and thick. Dip a small Easter cake into the icing, and a large cake, applying a culinary brush.
   
2. Decorate finished products to your taste.
   

Video recipe

So that all the above steps go in one go, with a good mood and without possible difficulties, you can additionally watch a short video.

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