Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake
Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake

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This is the day that families get together for a huge feast, unwrap presents (brought by the Three Wise Men/Kings), and head out to watch a parade of elaborately-decorated floats. Great recipe for Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake. Roscón means "cake in the shape of a crown" and de reyes means "kings", which gives us "crown of the kings". Roscón de Reyes is a sweet ring-shaped bread that is prepared with a sweet, yeasted dough and comes topped with sugar and candied.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
  1. Prepare Preferment
  2. Take 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
  3. Prepare 4 g instant dry yeast
  4. Take 1 tsp sugar
  5. Make ready 2 tsp bread flour
  6. Take 💕For The Dough
  7. Get 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
  8. Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
  9. Take 50 g sugar
  10. Make ready 120 ml milk
  11. Prepare 3 eggs
  12. Make ready Zest of an orange
  13. Prepare 15 ml vanilla extract
  14. Make ready 1 tsp orange blossom water
  15. Prepare 60 g soft unsalted butter
  16. Get 💕Fillings
  17. Get 2 cups Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
  18. Make ready 150 g dried apricots
  19. Take 1/2 cups dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
  20. Make ready 💕For the decoration
  21. Take 1 egg yolk
  22. Take 30 ml milk
  23. Prepare 30 g almond flakes
  24. Get 30 g pearl sugar

And, for any true Spanish celebration of the Epiphany, you should definitely have a Roscón de Reyes on your. The Three Kings: Santa's Little Subcontractors. The Roscón de Reyes (King's Cake) is my favourite part of Spanish Christmas. Any tradition that turns eating cake into a game is a win for me!

Steps to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
  1. In a smaller bowl, Stir the yeast into the lukewarm milk & flour. Cover & let it double in size. (1)
  2. For the dough: In a standing mixing bowl with a dough hook, add flour, sugar, salt & (1), milk, eggs. Mix for about 10 minutes until the dough becomes fluffy. Meanwhile put orange zest, vanilla, butter and knead well until the dough is smooth & elastic. To enhance orange flavor, add a tsp of orange blossom water. Place the dough in a bowl, cover and leave in a moderately warm place to double in size.
  3. Turn the dough out onto a surface and knead for 3-4 minutes. - Flour the surface and roll the dough out to about 60 cm x 12 cm (24"x 5"). Sprinkle sugar, dried apricots, cranberries. Roll the dough very carefully. With a knife, cut the dough in half. Put one side over & over & make like a braid.
  4. Transfer the dough into a greased pan. Let the dough rest about 30 minutes then brush with egg mixture. Sprinkle pearl sugar on top of it.
  5. Preheat the oven at 170oC. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 25-30 minutes – check after 15 minutes and cover with aluminum foil if the top gets too dark. The roscón should get a nice golden color on top. Take out of the oven and let cool down completely. Best served warm.

The Roscón de Reyes (King's Cake) is my favourite part of Spanish Christmas. Any tradition that turns eating cake into a game is a win for me! Many houses will leave champagne and "turrones" (Spanish Christmas sweets) for the Reyes Magos. They may also leave fresh water and lettuce for their camels. There is also a special cake to celebrate the "Día de Reyes" called the "Roscón de Reyes" which roughly translates to the "Wise Men Cake".

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