King cake
Calories: 319.9kcal
Servings 10 serves
Ingredients
- 500 g strength flour
- 25 g fresh yeast
- 80 g sugar
- 200 ml milk warm
- 2 egg
- 1 tbsp orange blossom water
- 1 zest lemon
- 100 g butter
- candied fruit
- almond filleted
- 2 tbsp sugar moistened
Step by step instructions
- Put the flour in a bowl and make a hole in the center.
- Warm the milk and dissolve the yeast in it.
- Add the sugar to the flour and the milk with the yeast. Stir a bit.
- The add, in this order and mixing as you go: the eggs, the orange blossom water and the lemon zest.
- Continue mixing until the flour is almost completely integrated.
- Add the butter cut into pieces and knead until you get an uniform dough.
- Form a ball and let it rest, covered, until it doubles in volume.
- Knead lightly again, just to remove the air, form the ring-shaped cake and place it onto a roasting pan.
- Paint with beaten egg and let settle until it doubles its size again. It is better in a warm place (the oven at 40º-50ºC)
- Preheat the oven to 200ºC.
- Paint the cake again with beaten egg and decorate with frosted fruits, flaked almonds and moistened sugar.
- Bake at 200ºC for 20 minutes.
Nutrition
Calories: 319.9kcal | Carbohydrates: 48.16g | Protein: 8.02g | Fat: 10.48g | Saturated Fat: 5.91g | Trans Fat: 0.33g | Cholesterol: 56.24mg | Sodium: 94.36mg | Potassium: 106.34mg | Fiber: 1.41g | Sugar: 11.59g | Vitamin A: 330.87IU | Vitamin C: 0.13mg | Calcium: 38.14mg | Iron: 0.7mg
