Recipes for the most delicious Easter cakes

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-01-12 17:37

• Category:

  Bakery

• Cooking time:

  2, 5-3 hours

Ingredients

• milk
• yeast
• flour
• sugar
• eggs
• butter
• salt
• raisins, nuts
• orange or lemon zest
• cognac

Kulich is a spicy yeast bread with a lot of raisins, candied fruits and nuts. The prototype of the Easter cake is prosphora, which is used in divine services, but the chefs did not ignore such a ritual dish, and today you can find a variety of delicious step-by-step recipes with photos of Easter baked goods.

Traditional yeast cake

Traditionally, the dough for Easter cakes is kneaded with live yeast, which accelerates the fermentation process. The main thing is that the room is warm and there are no drafts, since the dough does not like this. Today, a variety of options for such baking are presented to choose from, we will try to choose the best and most delicious recipe from them with a step-by-step photo.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 240 ml of milk;
• 30 g fresh yeast;
• 160 g flour;
• 3 tsp Sahara.

For the test:

• 3 eggs + 3 yolks;
• 240 g sugar;
• 550 g flour;
• 100 g butter;
• a pinch of salt;
• 150 g additives (raisins, nuts);
• cognac (optional);
• orange or lemon zest.

For glaze:

• 3 egg whites;
• 100 g of sugar.

Preparation:

We fill any dried fruits with cognac, rum or juice, this will better reveal their taste. We leave for a day, then drain the liquid and dry the dried fruits on a paper towel

For dough, we send yeast, sugar and sifted flour into warm milk, mix everything well. Cover with foil and leave warm for 30 minutes. If the room is cool, then preheat the oven to 40 ° C, turn it off and put the dough on for 30-40 minutes

Pour three whole eggs and three yolks into a bowl, add sugar, salt to them and beat until fluffy

Then add the matched dough to the egg mixture and mix until smooth

Now add the sifted flour in portions and knead the dough first with a spatula, then with your hands on the table. In the process, add the zest of an orange or lemon

Once all the flour is mixed in, we begin to add butter at room temperature. After adding the oil, the dough will knead for 20 minutes. It should be smooth, shiny and not sticky to your hands

After that, grease the bowl with vegetable oil, put the dough, cover and leave warm for 1, 5-2 hours

As soon as the dough has increased 2 or 3 times, put it on the table, add dried fruits and mix them well, distributing them throughout the dough

Then we divide the dough into equal parts, roll it into a ball and arrange it into the molds. Cover with a towel again and put in heat for 40 minutes

We bake cakes in an oven preheated to 180 ° C for 20 minutes to 1 hour, it all depends on the size of the molds and the oven. We check the readiness of the cakes with a skewer

To prepare the glaze, pour the egg whites into a bowl, add sugar and send to a water bath, beat until persistent peaks. In the process of whipping, we check that the protein mass is not too hot, otherwise the proteins will curl

Then we cover the baking surface with meringue and decorate the cakes to your liking, as in the proposed recipe with the photo

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The process of making cakes is lengthy and requires some knowledge. But everything will work out if you cook Easter baked goods in a good mood and in silence. According to ancient signs, you cannot even slam the door during cooking.

Curd cakes

Easter cakes are quite high-calorie pastries, because they are baked in the oven from butter dough. But today there is a more gentle option for the figure and digestion, namely the most delicious recipe for cake with cottage cheese. Easter baking turns out to be soft, tender and very beautiful, as in the step-by-step photos.

Ingredients:

• 800 g flour;
• 1 bag of dry yeast;
• 450 g of cottage cheese (5-9%);
• 140 g sugar;
• vanilla sugar;
• 3 eggs +3 yolks;
• 100 g butter;
• 140 ml of milk;
• 0.5 tsp salt;
• 200 g of dried fruits.

Preparation:

For dough in warm milk, stir the yeast together with 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar and flour. The consistency of the dough should be like thick sour cream, so add flour if necessary. Leave the base for the rise test in a warm place for 30 minutes

Until the dough rises, we begin the process of kneading the dough and for this we send 3 whole eggs and 3 yolks into the bowl, pour salt and the remaining sugar, beat until fluffy. Then add soft butter and stir everything

After that we add the dough that has increased 2 times and begin to introduce flour in portions, knead the slightly sticky dough

Cover the dough or put it in a bag, put it in a cool place for 12 hours. We take a larger package so that the dough has a place to grow

After we take out the dough, let it warm up, and then mix in any dried fruits of our choice, which must first be washed, dried and mixed with a small amount of flour

Next, we divide the dough into equal parts, round each ball and put it in a mold

We cover, leave warm and as soon as the dough rises to the edges of the molds, we send it to the oven, heated to 170 ° C. We bake for 20 minutes, check readiness with a skewer

We cover the cooled cakes with protein glaze and decorate as you like best, you can take an idea from the proposed recipe with a photo

We use flour for cakes only of the highest grades and we must sift it so that it is enriched with oxygen. Also butter, it must be natural, high quality and fresh.

Lazy cake

If you really want to bake Easter cakes, but the time is sorely lacking, then you should not despair. We offer a step-by-step recipe for a lazy cake in the oven, which does not require much effort and time. At the same time, the pastries are the most delicious, lush and beautiful, as in the photo.

Ingredients:

• 300 ml of milk;
• 8 g dry yeast;
• 6 egg yolks;
• 180 g sugar;
• 0.5 tsp salt;
• 180 g butter;
• 2 tsp vanilla extract;
• 1 tbsp. l. orange peel;
• 150 g candied fruits;
• 120 ml orange juice.

Preparation:

Stir sugar in warm milk and dissolve dry yeast, leave for 5-7 minutes

Fill the candied fruits with orange juice and set them aside for now

Sift flour into a deep bowl. Now we take eggs at room temperature and for the dough we use only the yolks, which we beat with sugar until a fluffy white mass

Next, add soft butter to the egg mixture, beat well

Then pour the orange zest into the mass and pour in the vanilla extract, mix

Then add the dough, stir and add flour in portions, knead the dough, cover and leave in a warm place so that it rises well

Drain the juice from the candied fruits and dry them on paper napkins

As soon as the dough increases in volume, stir in the candied fruits and once again leave the base for baking alone for half an hour

Now we lay out the dough in forms and again leave it warm for an hour so that it completely fills the form

We bake the cakes for the first 15 minutes at a temperature of 170 ° С and for another 15 minutes at a temperature of 160 ° С

For decoration, we prepare the glaze, and also, if desired, use various sprinkles and candied fruits, as in the recipe with the photo

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The dough for the cakes should not turn out to be tight, otherwise the cakes will quickly become stale, but not too soft, otherwise the baked goods will creep.

Chocolate cake

For Easter, you can bake chocolate cakes in the oven, in which rich notes of chocolate are intertwined with an orange aftertaste. Try to make the most delicious Easter baked goods according to the suggested step-by-step recipe with a photo to see how delicious it is.

Ingredients for the dough:

• 300 ml of milk;
• 1 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 150 g flour;
• 6 g dry yeast.

For the test:

• 5 egg yolks;
• 50 g cocoa;
• a pinch of salt;
• 130 g butter;
• 200 g sugar;
• 300-400 g flour;
• 10 g vanilla sugar.

Additives:

• 70 g dark chocolate;
• 1 tbsp. l. orange peel;
• 50 ml orange juice;
• 100 g dried cherries;
• 70 g raisins.

For glaze:

• 1 tsp lemon juice;
• 1 tsp vanilla sugar;
• 1 tsp gelatin;
• 180 g sugar.

Preparation:

Peel off the zest from the orange, try not to touch the white part of the peel, as it is bitter

Now we squeeze the juice from the fruit and fill it with dried cherries with raisins and leave it for a while while the dough is kneading

In a bowl, mix flour with sugar and dry yeast. Fill with warm milk, stir until the lumps dissolve and keep warm for 20-40 minutes

Pour two types of sugar, salt, zest into the yolks and grind the mixture with an immersion blender

Add pieces of soft butter to the crushed yolks and mix everything again

Now combine the egg-oil mixture with the dough

Next, pour out the cocoa and stir until the composition is evenly colored in a chocolate color

Next, we begin to sift the flour, in the first stages we simply mix the dough with a spoon

As soon as the mass becomes very thick, we continue to knead with our hands for 15 minutes

Now add additives to the dough along with juice, as well as small pieces of chocolate

Knead the dough well again so that all the additives are evenly distributed over it. After the dough, create warm conditions and leave to rise for 2-4 hours

We spread the dough that has increased in volume in tins, keep it warm again for at least an hour, and then put it in the oven for 25-30 minutes at a temperature of 180 ° C

Cool the finished cakes, and at this time prepare the icing. To do this, pour gelatin into a bowl, pour in 2 tbsp. l. warm water and stir until all the granules are dissolved. If the gelatin does not dissolve, then heat it over low heat

Pour sugar, including vanilla, into a saucepan. Pour in 4 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar and cook syrup

Then pour gelatin directly into the hot syrup and stir

After that, beat the syrup with the addition of lemon juice and immediately decorate the cakes, since the glaze cools very quickly. If desired, cakes can be decorated with multi-colored sprinkles or, as in the recipe, make such a drawing as in the photo

We bake the cakes in a preheated oven, as the dough loves warmth. Also, during the baking process, do not look into the oven for the first 20 minutes, otherwise the dough will settle.

Easter cakes can be bought at any store, but the tastiest ones are those that can be baked in the oven at home. The dough can be kneaded with dry or live yeast, milk, sour cream or cream. There are a lot of step-by-step recipes with photos, it remains only to choose the most suitable one. But do not put a lot of additives in the dough, otherwise the baked goods will not turn out fluffy. Ideally, you should not take more than 350 grams of dried fruit per 1 kg of flour.