Easter cake with dried apricots and prunes

Ingredients

• 500 g flour
• 250 ml milk
• 3 eggs
• 7.5 g dry yeast
• 175 g sugar
• 65 g butter
• 1 st. l. vanilla sugar
• 100 g raisins
• 100 g of dried apricots
• 100 g prunes
• 10 ml cognac
• zest of half an orange
• 1 protein
• ¼ cup powdered sugar

Cooking

Step 1

Dissolve in warm milk 1 tbsp. l. sugar, add yeast, stir well and leave to stand for 15 minutes.

Step 2

Cut prunes and dried apricots, add raisins and pour cognac, leave for 10-15 minutes.

Step 3

Beat eggs with sugar, add melted butter, vanilla sugar and brew and mix. Start kneading the dough, gradually adding flour. Knead for about 20 minutes, for 10 minutes. before the end of the kneading, add dried fruits. Leave the dough to rise for about 1 hour.

Step 4

Punch down the risen dough and place in the prepared pans. Put the forms in a warm place and leave for the second approach.

Step 5

Bake Easter cakes in the oven, heated to 180 ˚С, until cooked. Small cakes are ready in 25-30 minutes, medium ones in 40 minutes, large ones in 50-60 minutes. Readiness check with a dry stick. Cool on a wire rack.

Step 6

For the glaze, grind the icing sugar with the protein until a fluffy shiny mass.

Step 7

Grease the finished cake with icing and decorate.