Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, catalan three kings' cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
There are many variants, but this one is the classic one. This date commemorates the visit the Three Wise Men made to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. In Mexico, the day is a gift-giving holiday.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have catalan three kings' cake using 27 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Catalan Three kings' cake:
- Take Sourdough
- Make ready 2 grams fresh yeast
- Take 90 grams bread flour
- Get 60 ml whole milk
- Make ready Dough
- Make ready 1 large egg
- Take 350 grams bread flour
- Prepare 80 granulated sugar
- Make ready 15 ml cointreau
- Take 15 ml orange flower water
- Prepare 7 grams fresh yeast
- Make ready 60 ml whole milk
- Take 70 grams unsalted butter
- Get Marzipan
- Prepare 75 grams groung almond
- Make ready 25 grams ground hazelnut
- Make ready 15 grams ground walnut
- Take 15 grams ground coconut
- Take 85 grams powdered sugar
- Take 1 egg yolk
- Take Topping
- Get 60 ml pomace brandy (ex. grappa)
- Prepare 50 grams sugar
- Prepare 1 eggs
- Prepare 30 grams almond
- Take 1 box of dried and candied fruit
- Make ready ml vegetable oil
Within the "Tortell de Reis" two hidden surprises can be found: a dried field bean, and a tiny figurine of one of the three kings. The lucky one who gets the figurine is allowed to wear a paper crown. A king cake (sometimes referred to as kingcake, kings' cake, king's cake, or three kings'. Here is how you cook it.
Steps to make Catalan Three kings' cake:
- Sourdough: Warm the milk a bit. Mix the yeast and the flour. Add the milk and knead. Let it rest (and raise) for 12 hours.
- Marzipan: mix all the ingedients, make a ball, wrap it in plastic wrap amd let it rest in the fridge for around 10-12 hours.
- Dough: mix the milk, the cointreau, the orange flower water. In another bowl mix the flour, the sourdough (must crumble it), the yeast, the sugar and the salt.
- Add the liquids and the butter (slightly melted) and kneed it. Cover it with a wet cloth amd let it rest u til it doubles its original volume.
- Press the mass down to take out the air and make a ball. Rub vegetal oil in your hands and make a hole in the middle of the ball and stretch it carefully until you have a crown. Flat the sides and put the crown on a oven-tray (covered in paper)
- Put the marzipan in the crown. Once done take the exterior side of the mass and cover the marzipan. Cover t once more with a wet cloth amd let it double its volume.
- Topping: Mix the brandy and the sugar and paint the crown. Beat the egg and paint the crown over the sugar. Put the candied fruts andthe almonds on it.
- Put in he oven for 25-30 minutes. Let it cool down before serving
Now, as part of the celebration, it is traditional to bake a cake (King Cake) in honor of the three kings. Rosca de reyes (Kings' Cake) is a traditional Spanish cake with an amazing story. This is also known as the religious holiday the Epiphany, a day where Christians celebrate the Son of God taking on human form as baby Jesus. Roscón de Reyes: the Three Kings Day cake. The crown jewel of the los reyes magos celebration is exactly that: a crown-shaped dessert decorated with candy "jewels." This is the roscón de reyes, a sweet bread-like cake often filled with cream and topped with dried fruits.
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