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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 first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook catalan three kings' cake using 27 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Catalan Three kings' cake:
- Prepare Sourdough
- Take 2 grams fresh yeast
- Make ready 90 grams bread flour
- Prepare 60 ml whole milk
- Take Dough
- Take 1 large egg
- Get 350 grams bread flour
- Get 80 granulated sugar
- Take 15 ml cointreau
- Prepare 15 ml orange flower water
- Take 7 grams fresh yeast
- Make ready 60 ml whole milk
- Get 70 grams unsalted butter
- Take Marzipan
- Make ready 75 grams groung almond
- Get 25 grams ground hazelnut
- Get 15 grams ground walnut
- Take 15 grams ground coconut
- Take 85 grams powdered sugar
- Get 1 egg yolk
- Take Topping
- Make ready 60 ml pomace brandy (ex. grappa)
- Make ready 50 grams sugar
- Get 1 eggs
- Get 30 grams almond
- Make ready 1 box of dried and candied fruit
- Take ml vegetable oil
The lucky one who gets the figurine is allowed to wear a paper crown. This date commemorates the visit the Three Wise Men made to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem. In Mexico, the day is a gift-giving holiday. Tradition states this bread be served, garnished with the "jewels" of fruit and nuts.
Instructions 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
In Mexico, the day is a gift-giving holiday. Tradition states this bread be served, garnished with the "jewels" of fruit and nuts. If you've ever visited Spain around the holidays, then you've probably seen a roscón de reyes. This delicious cake is eaten with hot chocolate on the night of Epiphany when the Three Kings arrive and leave gifts for children. Whoever finds the Christ Child figure in the cake is crowned and becomes the 'king' or 'queen' of the banquet.
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