Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake)
Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake)

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Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake) is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook roscón de reyes (three kings cake) using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake):
  1. Prepare 400 g flour
  2. Take 3 eggs
  3. Take 100 g butter
  4. Make ready 100 g sugar
  5. Get 1 tsp baking powder
  6. Prepare 1/4 liter milk (250 ml)
  7. Take zest of 1 lemon
  8. Get dried mixed peel for decorating
  9. Get salt
  10. Take Small trinkets and a broad bean/fava bean

They finish lunch or dinner with this delicious cake, called Roscon de Reyes. This is a sugar free recipe but it contains so many goodies that it really struggles to qualify as a low carb cake. 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.

Instructions to make Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake):
  1. Mix the baking powder in a glass with 4 Tbsp of the milk then add this to 100 g of the flour and mix together until it forms a dough type mixture. Cover with a clean tea towel and set aside until it doubles in size.
  2. Place the rest of the flour (300g) in a bowl and add the eggs, sugar, pinch of salt, the rest of the milk and zest of the lemon. Mix well then add the butter and continue mixing for a further 2 mins then add the dough mixture. Once a smooth dough has been achieved cover and set aside for 2 hours.
  3. After 2 hours knead the mixture a little before placing it on a greased baking tray in the form of a ring. Put some little figures wrapped up in foil inside the mixture and also a broad bean.
  4. Brush with milk, decorate using the mixed peel, lightly sprinkle with sugar and place in a pre-heated oven (160°C/320°F) for 15 - 20 minutes.

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. Whoever finds the bean has to pay for next year's roscón. The tradition of placing beans, candies or figurines of the Christ child inside the cake is very much alive. The cake's round format represents a king's crown.

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