Want to cook for Easter delicious and unusual cakes? Then you are at. For you - the traditional version and several original recipes for Easter.
A traditional dish on the Easter table is Easter cake. According to church canons, the dough is made on the night from Thursday to Friday, and on Friday they are baked. Many are doing this the day before the holiday. On the day of Easter, the cakes are consecrated in the church. There is a huge amount of recipes for this baking, because the housewives love to experiment. Consider the recipe for the traditional cake and several original options.
The usual Easter cake
Let's start with the simplest and most common version, which is familiar to many. Baking turns delicious and lush.
Ingredients:
- flour - 4 items;
- pressed yeast - 50 g;
- eggs - 4 pieces;
- milk - 1 item;
- sugar - 3/4;
- Vanilla sugar - 1 packet;
- butter - 100 g;
- olive oil - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- candied fruits and raisins.
Preparation
- Preheat the milk, but it should not be too hot. Add a spoonful of sugar and crush the yeast. Mix and leave for 10 minutes.
- In another container, send the remaining usual and vanilla sugar, and eggs. Add the melted cream and olive oil. Stir well.
- Mix the resulting mixture and the spoon, and add the raisins and candied fruits. It remains to mix the flour, so that in the end came out a dough, similar to thick sour cream.
- Select the chosen forms with oil and fill them with half a test. Cover them with towels and leave for an hour in a warm place, so that the dough approaches 3/4 of the height of the mold.
- Lubricate the workpieces with a yolk and bake them in the oven at 180 ° C for an hour. Readiness should be checked with a wooden stick, which should be pierced by Easter, and after that it should remain dry. If the tops began to burn, then cover them with parchment paper or foil.
- When the cakes are cool, decorate them with glaze, for example, whipping the squirrels with sugar, and powder.
Cake without eggs
Baking, cooked according to this recipe, is very delicate and almost melts in the mouth. The cake will look like a cake, so to keep it soft, store it in a bag.
Ingredients:
- flour - 180 g;
- natural yogurt - 250 ml;
- granulated sugar - 150 g;
- Vanilla sugar - 1 packet;
- soda - 3/4 tsp.
- a pinch of nutmeg, candied fruit and a piece of chocolate.
Preparation
- Yogurt stir with soda and leave for a while.
- Sift the sifted flour with vanilla and ordinary sugar, and add nutmeg, candied fruits and melted chocolate. Stir well.
- Connect the two masses and spread the dough over the oiled forms. Bake for an hour at a temperature of 180-200 ° C.
Chocolate cake
If you want to surprise your family with aromatic and delicious pastries, then pay attention to this recipe, which will taste sweet tooth.
Ingredients:
- flour - 450 g;
- milk - 250 ml;
- fresh yeast - 25 g;
- granulated sugar - 100 g;
- cocoa powder 70 g;
- butter - 50 g;
- yolk - 1 piece;
- raisins and candied fruits at will.
Preparation
- In warm milk, add a spoonful of granulated sugar and crushed yeast. Mix and leave for 10 minutes. in a warm place.
- In another container, mix the sifted flour, cocoa, the remaining sugar, salt and, if desired, add a whisper of vanillin, but this is not necessary.
- Melt the milk and pour it into the dry ingredients. Then send the yolk and spoon. At the same stage, raisins and candied fruits are added.
- Mix the dough until it is collected in a single ball, which is put in a bowl of oiled and leave for an hour.
- Spread the dough into shapes, filling 2/3 of the volume. Leave them for an hour, and then bake for half an hour at a temperature of 180 ° C. Cool the cakes on your side. It will remain to decorate them in any way.
Carrot Cake
Thanks to the use of carrots in the recipe, Easter is not only original to taste, but also useful.
Ingredients:
- flour - 2 items;
- fresh yeast - 50 g;
- carrots - 3 pieces;
- eggs - 4-5 pieces;
- butter - 200 g;
- milk - 1 item;
- water - 1 item;
- granulated sugar - 150 g;
- salt.
Preparation
- In a small amount of warm milk, dilute the yeast, and add the sugar. Insist an hour, and then put the flour into the finished spoon, kneading the dough. Cover it with a towel and put it in a warm place.
- Carrots clean and cut into cubes. Cook it in water with the addition of butter. After this, pour the liquid and grind the vegetable with a fork or blender until it is pure. In it, add the rest of the warm milk, butter, sugar, a little salt and eggs. It is important that the mass is homogeneous.
- The carrot mix should be mixed into the spoon, and then the finished dough is put into prepared forms for 1/3. Leave to rise for 20 minutes. and grease from above with egg. Baking time is 50-60 minutes. at a temperature of 200 ° C.
- For decoration, you can use glaze, butter or protein cream, and even caramel. Experiment in your own pleasure.
Honey cake
Baking with the addition of honey turns delicious and aromatic, so why not add it to the dough for cakes? Be sure to try this recipe, you will like it.
Ingredients:
- flour - 300 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- granulated sugar - 0.5 tbsp. spoons;
- warm water - 100 ml;
- dry yeast - 5 g;
- liquid honey - 50 g;
- bitter chocolate - 0.5 tiles;
- butter - 15 g;
- raisins.
Preparation
- Mix a couple tablespoons of flour and yeast. Separately connect warm water and granulated sugar. Mix both mixtures and leave for 15 minutes.
- Separately, whisk the eggs with honey and pour into the dough. Add the rest of the ingredients (except butter and chocolate), stir and leave in a warm place under the towel for 1.5 hours.
- Fill the molds halfway with the finished test and leave them for another hour. Lubricate the top with a yolk and bake in a preheated oven to 180 ° C. Decorate with melted chocolate, mixed with butter.
Curd cake
If you are not friends with the test or just do not want to mess with it, then use this recipe. By the way, many call this Easter "Tsar".
Ingredients:
- cottage cheese - 0,5 kg;
- eggs - 3 pieces;
- butter - 100 g;
- sour cream - 200 g;
- sugar - 0,5 items;
- vanillin;
- raisins, almonds, dried apricots and candied fruits - according to 1/5 st.
Preparation
- First, two times, rub cottage cheese through a fine sieve in a saucepan. Add to it eggs, sour cream and melted butter. Mix everything with a spatula.
- Put the saucepan on the stove and warm, stirring with a spoon. When the mass begins to boil, remove the pan from the fire and put it in cold water. Stir until the mixture cools.
- Add sugar and vanillin to the cottage cheese mass. Stir and place in a sieve, covered with cotton cloth. Leave for a few hours. This is to ensure that the glass is excess fluid.
- After that, add to the curd chopped nuts and dried fruits. It remains to put the mass in a mold (better silicone). Top with a napkin and put any oppression, such as a saucer and a bottle of water. Put it in the refrigerator for the night. It will remain to turn Easter over to a dish and decorate it to taste.
Almond cake
Ready-made pastry thanks to the use of nuts turns out to be fragrant and very tasty. This recipe will certainly become one of the most loved.
Ingredients:
- flour - 5 items;
- butter - 100 g;
- eggs - 8 pieces;
- pressed yeast - 100 g;
- milk - 250 ml;
- cognac - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- raisins - 0,5 items;
- crushed almonds - 0,5 items;
- granulated sugar - 1 tbsp.
Preparation
- Boil the milk, add 0.5 tbsp. flour and cook for two minutes, stirring constantly. After a while, cool it and put the yeast. Mix well and leave in a warm place.
- Separate yolks and rub them with sugar white. Whip the whites in foam. In turn, add them to the dough, mix and leave to go.
- Put the remaining ingredients in the dough and mix well. Lay in the shape until the middle and leave for a while to rise. Top with a yolk and bake for an hour at a temperature of 180-200 ° C.
Bezdrozhzhevoy cake
Many housewives complain that they do not get baked with yeast, so they have devised a special recipe for them. Be sure, the baking will turn out sweet, sweet and tasty.
Ingredients:
- flour - 200 g;
- eggs - 2 pieces;
- sugar - 3/4;
- Vanilla sugar - 1 packet;
- cottage cheese - 200 g;
- lemon juice - 0.5 pcs .;
- butter - 70 g;
- turmeric - 0,5 tsp.
- white raisins, candied fruits and a pinch of soda.
Preparation
- Wipe the cottage cheese through a sieve and mix it with plain and vanilla sugar. Also add turmeric, soda, melted butter and lemon juice. Stir until homogeneous.
- Separate the yolks and whip them, and then send to the dough. Then put the candied fruits, raisins and mix. Portionally add the flour, kneading the dough.
- In the greased form, place the dough and bake the hour at a temperature of 180-200 ° C. When the top becomes rosy, cover it with parchment or foil. Decorate with a glaze made from protein.
Cranberry cake with rum
Have you been looking for an unusual recipe for a long time? Then this option is for you. Baking turns out to be insanely delicious and fragrant. Adults will clearly appreciate the "alcoholic" smell of Easter, but it can be safely given to children.
Ingredients:
- flour - 0,9 kg;
- sugar - 1,5 cups;
- yeast - 50 g;
- milk - 170 ml;
- sour cream and butter - 150 g;
- dried cranberries - 100 g;
- white raisins - 50 g;
- yolks - 4 pieces;
- rum - 25 ml;
- flavoring "Rom" - 5 ml;
- salt.
Preparation
- Add yeast and a spoonful of sugar and flour to warm milk. Stir, cover with a napkin and put on an hour in a warm place.
- Melt the butter and send the rest of the sugar, yolks, flavor, sour cream and a pinch of salt into it. Mix thoroughly.
- Pour the cranberries with rum and leave for a while. Combine the lobster with another mass and knead the dough, portionwise adding pre-sifted flour. Close the container with a towel and leave it for a couple of hours in a warm place. If necessary, knead the dough.
- Put the cranberries with rum into it and knead again. Leave it for another 2-3 hours, periodically swallowing.
- In the prepared forms, place the dough, filling them in half. Keep them warm until the dough comes to the top. Bake for 10 minutes. at a temperature of 190 ° C, and then lower the value by 30 ° C and bake until ready, checking the cake with a wooden stick.