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Crumbly Easter cake

Ingredients

Servings 8
  • 2 squirrels
  • 250 g powdered sugar
  • 1.1 kg flour
  • 350 g sugar
  • 500 ml milk
  • 300 g butter
  • 7 yolks
  • 60-50 g cognac
  • 22 g fresh yeast
  • 10 g vanilla sugar
  • 5 g of salt
  • 200 g walnuts
  • 200 g of hazelnuts
  • 100 g raisins
  • 100 g candied fruit

Cooking

Step 1

Make a dough, for this, slightly warm the milk to about 30 ˚С, add 50 g of sugar, yeast and add 400 g of flour. Mix well, leave for 30 minutes.

Step 2

Beat the yolks with the remaining sugar until foamy and add the butter.

Step 3

Mix the dough with the yolk mixture and cognac. Pour the rest of the flour, add salt, vanilla sugar and knead the dough. At the end of the kneading, add candied fruits, nuts and raisins to the dough.

Step 4

Divide the batter into the prepared pans, filling them ¾ full. Leave in a warm place for 4-60 minutes.

Step 5

Preheat oven to 165°C. Put the cakes in the oven and bake for 20-40 minutes, the time depends on the size of the cake.

Step 6

For the top, beat egg whites well with powdered sugar and cover the cooled Easter cakes.

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