We enter the final stretch of the Christmas celebration cuisine with Reyes. Although we have left behind the days of heaviest meal and the seafood and meats are the protagonists in the table, the Epiphany is the last holiday of Christmas and is dedicated to the youngest members of the house . For this reason, the sweets and desserts where we put the attention from the eve of January 6 and throughout the day of the Epiphany.
The dessert par excellence of January 6 is the crown desserts food Reyes. Yet who placed inside the cake small prizes such as toys or jewelry.
This classic recipe is as follows:
The adventure begins depositing 350 grams of flour into a bowl to knead. We will make a hole in the middle where we will put
We started putting in a large bowl 350 g flour, make a well in the center and add the sugar, yeast dissolved in warm water, rum punch with milk, orange zest, orange blossom water and the butter.
Mix the ingredients gently adding an egg and a little salt. With ingredients positions, we began to knead.
Mix lightly and add one of the eggs and a pinch of salt and knead.
Once we obtain a homogeneous mass, deposited on a flat surface on which will spread some flour so that the dough does not stick. We continue to kneading until the dough acquires a drying sticky consistency.
We make a ball with the dough and opened a hole in the middle to go enlarging gradually and with care not to damage the dough.
Once we've given this form of twisted roll, place on a baking tray in a warm place and let it cook for at least an hour. We remind you preheat the oven to 200 ° C before putting the bun.
After the first baking oven withdraw the roulade to decorate with beaten egg which will apply with a brush-- candied fruit, sliced almonds and granulated sugar.
Once it's decorate the roscón back in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes. When we see the surface with a golden tone, retired.
We do not know if the children of today are still scary with the "if you do not behave the Three Wise Men will bring coal". What we do know is that carbon sugar that was sold in bakeries this week could be an ero machacamuelas was very good. If you want to do it yourself, here we bring you the recipe.
Ingredients
Preparation
Before we get to prepare this sweet imitation of anthracite, we have to put baking paper into the mold in which we go to cook.
To prepare the dough, we have to put the egg white with lemon juice and whisk to mount while adding the icing sugar gradually. We have to be very thick mass If we need, we put more icing sugar to get the texture.
Split about 70-100 grams of dough and add the food coloring until we make it very black.
To make the syrup, we have to mix water and sugar in a deep saucepan and bring to a boil. The fluid must be warmer than usual, so we'll leave five minutes from start to bubble.
Then we add the black mass and stir well. We will see that the mixture will rise, forming a froth. We continue stirring the dough down again and when you go up again, we pour quickly into the box or mold prepared at first.
The mass cools rapidly and have achieved our carbon block to distribute among all lovers of sweets.
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