Milk cake with candied fruits and walnuts

A cake that any hostess will always get! The dough for this sweet cake on milk with candied fruits and nuts always turns out to be fluffy and tender. It is very simple and inexpensive to cook it, and even a child can decorate it. Treat yourself and your loved ones with delicious Easter pastries!
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 13 % 8 g
Fats 19 % 12 g
Carbohydrates 68 % 42 g
294 kcal
GI: 5 / 7 / 88

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 50 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to bake a cake with milk with candied fruits and nuts? To prepare cakes, we prepare the inventory and the products we need.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Add 50 grams of yeast to 0.5 liters of warm melted milk.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Then add 2 tbsp sugar 3 tbsp flour and mix.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add 3 more tablespoons of flour to the dough and stir with a whisk.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Break six eggs at room temperature into a separate bowl.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Add the remaining sugar to the bowl and beat thoroughly with a mixer.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Add 200 grams of butter to the egg mixture.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Add 2 chines to the egg mass.l. vanilla sugar, 1 tsp.l. turmeric and mix well with a whisk.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Add the well-risen sourdough to the egg mass and mix thoroughly until smooth.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Then pour the resulting mixture into a large container and add flour, sifting parts through a sieve and stirring.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Mix the resulting dough well.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Thoroughly wash 100 grams of raisins and sprinkle flour well in it.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Put the raisins into the dough, add 100 gr. candied fruits and mix well distributing in the dough.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Cover the dough with a towel and put it away in a warm place for one hour, after which we crush the dough with our hand directly into the container.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Lubricate the table with vegetable oil and spread our dough on it, which we knead with our hands for about 10 minutes, releasing carbon dioxide from it and saturating with oxygen.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    We place about two kilograms of the resulting dough into the prepared molds, with a teaspoon soaked in vegetable oil, we straighten out the irregularities of the dough in the molds. The dough should take up no more than half of the form (you can even fill in a third - the cakes will have a place to climb).

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    We put the blanks of cakes on a baking sheet with great care, cover them with a towel and put them on proofing. After an hour and a half of proofing, very carefully put the baking sheet in the oven preheated to 160 degrees for 25 minutes. Then lower the oven temperature to 150 degrees and bring the cakes to readiness for 30 minutes. Please note that the time and temperature are indicated approximately, since everyone has different ovens, focus on the specifics of your technique.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18.

    Taking the cakes out of the oven, we begin to prepare protein cream. Take the protein from one egg, add a pinch of citric acid and 50 gr. powdered sugar and beat with a mixer until stiff peaks. The resulting cream is smeared on top of the cakes, add the nut mixture, candied fruits, walnuts, raisins. Adding the dye to the protein cream that we have left, mix it well and lubricate the cakes, decorate with sugar paste, roses, snowflakes and stars.

Be prepared for the fact that flour may need more or less than indicated in the recipe. Focus not on the amount of flour, but on the desired consistency of the dough. Read a lot of useful information about flour and its properties in this article!

It is important to sift the flour to saturate it with oxygen. Then the baking will turn out to be airy and will rise well when baking.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information in this article !

So that the oven has time to heat up to the desired temperature, turn it on in advance (10-20 minutes before the start of cooking).

How to steam raisins correctly? Pour well-washed raisins with hot water and leave for 10-15 minutes. During this time, it will become soft. Drain the water and dry it with paper towels.

Easter cake is a special festive bread that Christians prepare only once a year to celebrate the Bright Resurrection of Christ.

Milk cakes according to this recipe I always get delicious, and you can decorate them with the simplest products that everyone has in the refrigerator.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Walnuts - 650   kcal/100g
  • Black Walnut English Walnut - 628   kcal/100g
  • Black Persian Walnut - 651   kcal/100g
  • Walnut oil - 925   kcal/100g
  • Turmeric - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Amateur unsalted butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Raisins - 280   kcal/100g
  • Kishmish - 279   kcal/100g
  • Beech nuts - 568   kcal/100g
  • Pinya - 635   kcal/100g
  • Cedar nuts - 620   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Candied fruits - 216   kcal/100g
  • Wheat flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Vanilla sugar - 379   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Fresh yeast - 109   kcal/100g

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