Easter cakes with dried apricots and candied fruits on yeast dough

Baking dough always turns out like FLUFF! A wonderful recipe for making sweet fragrant cakes for the Great Easter, which will decorate the festive table and pleasantly surprise with its rich and unsurpassably delicate taste!
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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 10 % 6 g
Fats 16 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 74 % 43 g
272 kcal
GI: 9 / 0 / 91

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 2 h 25 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    To prepare the perfect festive Easter cakes, we prepare the necessary products.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Pour five hundred milliliters of milk with a fat content of at least three and a half percent into a measuring mug, then add fifty grams of fresh pressed yeast to the mug.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Pour about fifty grams of sugar into a mug with milk and yeast.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add two full tablespoons of flour to the mug.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Mix all the ingredients well in a mug and set it aside for fifteen minutes to activate the yeast.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    We put one hundred and eighty grams of soft butter in a volumetric enameled basin.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Pour two hundred and fifty grams of sugar into the basin.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Add one teaspoon of vanilla sugar and one third of a teaspoon of salt to the basin.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    We separate the whites from the yolks and add six egg yolks to the basin.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Mix all the ingredients well in a common container.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Pour the prepared sourdough into a basin with egg mixture.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Mix all the ingredients in a common container with each other.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Add one hundred and fifty grams of 15% sour cream to the basin.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Also mix all the ingredients well together.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Pour forty grams of food poppy into the basin.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Grate and add lemon zest to the basin to taste.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    We put one hundred and twenty grams of candied fruits in the basin.

  18. Step 18:

    Step 18.

    Add one hundred and twenty grams of chopped dried apricots to the basin and mix all the ingredients together.

  19. Step 19:

    Step 19.

    We pour nine hundred grams of pre-sifted flour in parts into a total container.

  20. Step 20:

    Step 20.

    Mix the liquid base with flour and knead the dough.

  21. Step 21:

    Step 21.

    We continue to knead the dough thoroughly with our hands for about ten to fifteen minutes.

  22. Step 22:

    Step 22.

    Sprinkle the dough in the basin with flour and cover it with a kitchen towel and put it in a warm place for an hour and a half.

  23. Step 23:

    Step 23.

    After a while, the dough in the basin is very well kneaded, remove the accumulated carbon dioxide from it and saturate it with oxygen.

  24. Step 24:

    Step 24.

    Lay out the dough in the required amount according to the prepared molds, then add a little vegetable oil to the molds on top and level it with a spoon, then cover it with a towel and leave it to melt.

  25. Step 25:

    Step 25.

    After fifty minutes, we put the molds with cakes in the oven, which was preheated to one hundred and fifty degrees for fifty-five minutes, then turn off the oven and let the cakes stand in it for another five to seven minutes.

  26. Step 26:

    Step 26.

    Taking the cakes out of the oven, decorate them with cooked protein custard on top (the recipe for making the cream under the video).

  27. Step 27:

    Step 27.

    We also decorate the cakes on top with various roses, figurines and confectionery sprinkles to your liking.

  28. Step 28:

    Step 28.

    Cooking together, cooking simply, cooking at home the most delicious dishes from available products according to our recipes! Congratulations to everyone on the bright Easter holiday!

Easter cake - Easter pastry that always turns out! Tall, beautiful and incredibly delicious! Tender and light Easter cakes with dough, like a weightless fluff! Perfect festive cakes for the Great Easter! Forget forever about the capricious dough that does not rise for hours, does not want to rise during baking and quickly descends after being removed from the oven! According to this recipe, cakes always turn out to be rich, soft, fragrant, very porous inside with a rich and at the same time unsurpassably delicate taste!

Calorie content of products possible in 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
  • Sour cream with 30% fat content - 340   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 25% fat content - 284   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream with 20 % fat content - 210   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream of 10% fat content - 115   kcal/100g
  • Sour cream - 210   kcal/100g
  • Lemon - 16   kcal/100g
  • Lemon zest - 47   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 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
  • Dried apricots - 215   kcal/100g
  • Uryuk - 290   kcal/100g
  • Dried peaches - 254   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Poppy (seed) - 556   kcal/100g
  • Mac - 556   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • Vanilla sugar - 379   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Confectionery sprinkles - 395   kcal/100g
  • Candied fruit mixture - 216   kcal/100g
  • Fresh yeast - 109   kcal/100g

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