Yeast cake with apricots and jam on kefir

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare the necessary products for baking a delicious yeast cake with apricots and jam.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour five hundred grams of sifted flour and fifty grams of sugar into a large bowl.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add half a teaspoon of salt and ten grams of baking powder to the bowl.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour one teaspoon of vanilla sugar into a bowl.

5. Step 5:

   

   Add eight grams of dry fast-acting yeast to the bowl.

6. Step 6:

   

   Put two egg yolks in a bowl.

7. Step 7:

   

   Pour three hundred milliliters of kefir at room temperature into a common bowl and knead the dough for about five minutes.

8. Step 8:

   

   Add fifty grams of butter to the bowl with the dough and continue to knead.

9. Step 9:

   

   Pour one tablespoon of vegetable oil into a bowl with the dough.

10. Step 10:

    

    Lubricate the dough in a bowl with vegetable oil so that a crust does not form and, covering it with a kitchen napkin, put it in a warm place for lifting.

11. Step 11:

    

    After ninety minutes, the dough in the bowl reached the desired condition and rose well.

12. Step 12:

    

    Lubricate the table with a small amount of vegetable oil and spread the dough out of the bowl, which is then well kneaded.

13. Step 13:

    

    Divide the dough into two pieces of different sizes.

15. Step 14:

    

    Lubricate a suitable-sized baking sheet with a small amount of butter.

16. Step 15:

    

    We spread most of the dough into a mold and, having distributed it evenly, we make small sides, after which we set aside for proofing.

17. Step 16:

    

    Cut into several pieces each of the ten apricots.

18. Step 17:

    

    Spread one hundred grams of jam on top of the dough according to your taste with desire and distribute it evenly.

19. Step 18:

    

    Spread the sliced apricot slices on top of the jam layer at a small distance from each other.

20. Step 19:

    

    Spread small pieces of butter on top of the apricot layer.

21. Step 20:

    

    Pour a little flour on the table, then spread the rest of the dough and knead, after which we make a long sausage out of it and cut strips from it, which we cut in half.

22. Step 21:

    

    On each formed strip of dough we make incisions with a knife in the form of a Christmas tree.

23. Step 22:

    

    We spread the prepared strips on the pie and decorate with interlocking on top in the form of a pattern, after which we put it on proofing.

24. Step 23:

    

    Grease the pie with a beaten chicken egg after twenty-five minutes and put the mold on the bottom shelf of the oven preheated to one hundred and seventy-five degrees to bake the pie.

25. Step 24:

    

    We take the cooked pie out of the oven after twenty to twenty-five minutes, after which we give it a little time to cool down and cut into portions.

26. Step 25:

    

    Cooking together, cooking simply, cooking at home the most delicious dishes from available products according to our recipes! Bon appetit and a hearty tea party for everyone!