Easter cake with dried cherries and chocolate

Description

If you are looking for a recipe for a delicious, unusually tender, airy, soft, fragrant Easter cake, then you have just found it. Without exaggeration, this is the most delicious cake that I have ever tasted. Very tender Easter cake, with hints of vanilla and lemon, with cherries soaked in cognac, chocolate drops. The dough is tender, airy, light, with a soft fluffy texture. I put a piece of my soul into each of my fragrant, vanilla cakes! All mastic decorations are handmade. I am sure that you will also like it very much and will become a favorite. He won my heart, I think this is exactly what an Easter cake should be.

Cooking

Step 1

Milk slightly warm (you can in the microwave - 30 seconds). Add a teaspoon of sugar and stir in the yeast. Cover with cling film and leave for 15 minutes.

Step 2

In a large bowl, lightly beat the eggs with a pinch of salt, sugar and vanilla sugar with a fork. Pour in the yeast and milk and stir vigorously.

Step 3

Sift half of the flour into a bowl and mix. Add lemon zest.

Step 4

Dried cherries pour alcohol or just hot boiled water and leave to swell, and at this time add the remaining flour to the dough and knead. Attention! Do not add more flour to the dough! Knead the dough for 10-15 minutes. It will be sticky, don't worry. If you have a mixer with a dough attachment, you can use it.

Step 5

Add cherries to the dough, drying them with a paper towel and lightly cutting them into pieces, and chocolate drops, mix. Next, an important point: take soft butter and mix it into the dough in a small piece. Knead the dough by adding pieces of butter. The dough will be very nice.

Step 6

Next, cover the dough with a slightly damp towel and leave it in a warm place for 1.5-2 hours (it took me 1.5 hours).

Step 7

When the dough has risen, put it on a floured table, round it and put it in the finished paper form. Cover again with a slightly damp towel and let rise (it took me 40 minutes).

Step 8

Preheat oven to 180°C. Bake the cake in a preheated oven for 40-60 minutes (it took me 50 minutes). Check the readiness of the cake with a wooden stick, if the stick comes out dry, the cake is ready.

Step 9

Let's prepare the icing sugar. To do this, grind the egg white, gradually adding powdered sugar and lemon juice. Cool the finished cake on a wire rack and pour over the icing sugar. Decorate as desired.