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Great recipe for Catalan Three kings' cake. There are many variants, but this one is the classic one. The effort is totally worth it! A king cake (sometimes referred to as kingcake, kings' cake, king's cake, or three kings' cake) is a type of cake associated in a number of countries with the festival of Epiphany at the end of the Christmas season; in other places.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have catalan three kings' cake using 27 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Catalan Three kings' cake:
- Prepare Sourdough
- Take 2 grams fresh yeast
- Get 90 grams bread flour
- Take 60 ml whole milk
- Make ready Dough
- Prepare 1 large egg
- Get 350 grams bread flour
- Take 80 granulated sugar
- Get 15 ml cointreau
- Get 15 ml orange flower water
- Take 7 grams fresh yeast
- Prepare 60 ml whole milk
- Prepare 70 grams unsalted butter
- Prepare Marzipan
- Get 75 grams groung almond
- Get 25 grams ground hazelnut
- Take 15 grams ground walnut
- Make ready 15 grams ground coconut
- Get 85 grams powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 egg yolk
- Take Topping
- Get 60 ml pomace brandy (ex. grappa)
- Get 50 grams sugar
- Take 1 eggs
- Take 30 grams almond
- Take 1 box of dried and candied fruit
- Get ml vegetable oil
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. On this day it is the tradition to eat a cake called "Tortell de Reis". It is a round shaped cake filled with marzipan or whipped cream. 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.
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
It is a round shaped cake filled with marzipan or whipped cream. 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. As the name suggests, the "king cake" takes its name from the biblical three kings and is a traditional desert consumed by the majority of Catalan families on Three Kings Day. This date commemorates the visit the Three Wise Men made to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.
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