Easter cake on dough

Easter cake is a traditional holiday pastry, most often baked with yeast dough. We offer you 5 recipes for making wonderful Easter cakes on sourdough.

Easter cake on sourdough with live yeast

On the bright holiday of Easter, soft and airy Easter cakes are always present on the festive table. You will learn how to properly knead dough using live yeast dough from this recipe.

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   How to bake a delicious Easter cake with dough? Warm the milk slightly. Dissolve yeast at room temperature in 20 milliliters of milk, add a pinch of sugar and flour, mix. Leave the bowl with the dough in a warm place for half an hour.
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   Beat the yolks with a teaspoon of sugar.
3. 
   Pour the remaining sugar and vanillin into warm milk. Melt the butter over low heat, cool it and mix with the yolk mixture.
4. 
   Sift the flour through a sieve.
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   In a large bowl, combine the dough, sour cream, egg-butter mixture, and part of the flour. Then add the remaining flour in small portions and knead the dough.Wash the raisins, dry them and add them to the dough.
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   Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for an hour to rise.
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   After an hour, spread the dough into greased molds. Leave the molds with the dough for another 40-60 minutes in a warm place.
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   Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 40-60 minutes. Cool the baked goods completely and decorate to your liking.

Bon appetit!

Easter cake on dough with dry yeast in the oven

If you want to please your loved ones with fluffy Easter cakes prepared according to all traditions, then this recipe will come in handy. With such Easter cakes your holiday will be bright and tasty.

Cooking time: 4 hours.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Servings: 10-12.

Ingredients:

• Milk – 500 ml.
• Dry yeast – 11 gr.
• Flour – 1-1.3 kg.
• Chicken eggs – 6 pcs.
• Butter – 200 gr.
• Sugar – 250-350 gr.
• Raisins – 300 gr.
• Vanilla sugar – 1 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Heat the milk a little and dissolve the dry yeast in it.

2. Pour sifted flour into the dough. Mix the dough with flour until smooth and leave in a warm place for half an hour, covered with a towel.

3. Break the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Grind the yolks into sugar.

4. Beat the egg whites with a pinch of salt until you obtain a fluffy white foam.

5. Add the yolk mixture to the suitable dough and mix. After this, place the softened butter in a container.

6. Next, add the whipped whites, mix the dough with gentle, slow movements.

7. Then add the remaining sifted flour in parts, knead the dough well and leave it for an hour in a warm place. During this time it will grow well.

8. Soak the raisins in warm water for 10 minutes, then wash and dry. Add raisins to the dough, stir and leave the dough in a warm place to rise.

9.Grease baking pans with butter and fill them 1/3 full with dough. Leave the forms with the dough for half an hour in a warm place.

10. Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes. The baked goods rise well and acquire a beautiful golden crust.

Bon appetit!

How to bake Easter cake on sourdough in a bread machine?

Traditionally, housewives bake Easter cakes in the oven, but if you have such a multifunctional appliance in your kitchen as a bread machine, then you can’t help but use it. It was created specifically to produce fluffy baked goods without much difficulty.

Cooking time: 3.5 hours.

Cooking time: 30 min.

Servings: 8-10.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour – 3.5 tbsp.
• Fresh yeast – 35 gr.
• Milk – 1 tbsp.
• Cognac – 0.5 tbsp.
• Egg yolks – 3-4 pcs.
• Vanillin - to taste.
• Butter – 125 gr.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Salt – 0.5 tsp.
• Raisins – 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Place half of the sifted flour and yeast, previously diluted in warm milk, into a bread machine bucket. Activate the “Bread” program and wait until the bread maker kneads the dough.

2. After this, turn off the bread maker and leave the dough for 40 minutes.

3. Beat the yolks with sugar, then add salt, vanillin, cognac and softened butter, mix until smooth.

4. When the dough is ready, activate the “Basic Bread” program and add the yolk-butter mixture to the bucket.

5. When the mass becomes more or less homogeneous, add the second part of the flour.

6. After about 30 minutes, the bread maker will signal to load the raisins. Some bread machine models have a special dispenser for this.

7. After finishing kneading, close the lid of the bread machine and do not open it until the baking signal is ready. Cool the finished cake on a wire rack and decorate with glaze.

Bon appetit!

A simple and delicious recipe for cottage cheese cake on dough

Not only the delicious crumb of yeast baked goods, but also its incredible aroma makes housewives cook Easter cakes again and again. Elegant cottage cheese cakes with a sweet white top will take pride of place on the festive Easter table.

Cooking time: 3.5 hours.

Cooking time: 60 min.

Servings: 6-8.

Ingredients:

• For the dough:
• Milk – 0.25 tbsp.
• Flour – 1 tbsp.
• Sugar – 1 tsp.
• Dry yeast – 8 gr.
• For the test:
• Cottage cheese – 250 gr.
• Butter – 50 gr.
• Sugar – 2/3 tbsp.
• Salt – 2/3 tsp.
• Chicken eggs – 2 pcs.
• Chicken yolk – 1 pc.
• Flour – 2 tbsp.
• Raisins – 2/3 tbsp.
• Candied fruits – 2/3 tbsp.
• Vanilla sugar – 1 tsp.
• Lemon zest – 1 tsp.
• Turmeric – 0.5 tsp.

Cooking process:

1. Prepare the dough. Add flour, sugar and yeast to warm milk, mix and leave in a warm place for 15-20 minutes.

2. Mix cottage cheese with melted butter, salt, vanilla, lemon zest and turmeric.

3. Beat eggs, yolk and sugar with a mixer. Then add this mass to the cottage cheese and stir.

4. When the dough is ready, mix it with the curd mass.

5. Lightly sprinkle raisins and candied fruits with flour.

6. Add sifted flour to the curd mass, knead the dough.

7. Then stir dried fruits into the dough.

8. Grease the molds with butter or line them with baking paper. Fill the molds with dough to 1/3 of the volume, leave them warm for 40-60 minutes, during which time the dough will rise.

9. Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Thanks to turmeric, the Easter cake crumb acquires a rich yellow color.

Bon appetit!

Easter cake on sourdough with raisins at home

Easter is just around the corner. This simple recipe makes the cakes soft and fluffy.The dough rises well, and the raisins add even more sweetness and juiciness to holiday baking.

Cooking time: 6 hours.

Cooking time: 90 min.

Servings: 12.

Ingredients:

• Flour – 900 gr.
• Milk – 300 ml.
• Margarine – 150 gr.
• Sugar – 1 tbsp.
• Fresh yeast – 40 gr.
• Chicken eggs – 7 pcs.
• Salt – 1 pinch.
• Seedless raisins – 200 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Crumble the yeast into warm milk, add half the sugar, salt and 250 grams of sifted flour. Mix the ingredients and place the dough in a warm place. When the dough rises, lower it and do this a couple more times.

2. Soak raisins in hot water, wash and dry. If it is large, then chop it.

3. Separate the whites from the yolks. You don't need egg whites in the recipe; you can use them to make a glaze for decoration. Melt the margarine over low heat, cool, mix with the yolks, the remaining regular sugar and vanilla sugar.

4. Mix the well-grown dough with the yolk mixture. Add sifted flour and raisins, knead the dough. Place it in a warm place to rise for 40-60 minutes. Then mix the dough with your hands and put it back to proof.

5. Place the finished dough into greased pans. Before putting the dough in the oven, leave the molds in a warm place for half an hour.

6. Bake Easter cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 35-45 minutes. Cool the baked goods and decorate them to your liking.

Bon appetit!