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There are many variants, but this one is the classic one. 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. This date commemorates the visit the Three Wise Men made to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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:
- Get Sourdough
- Get 2 grams fresh yeast
- Get 90 grams bread flour
- Get 60 ml whole milk
- Make ready Dough
- Prepare 1 large egg
- Prepare 350 grams bread flour
- Get 80 granulated sugar
- Make ready 15 ml cointreau
- Get 15 ml orange flower water
- Prepare 7 grams fresh yeast
- Prepare 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
- Prepare 15 grams ground coconut
- Get 85 grams powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 egg yolk
- Make ready Topping
- Make ready 60 ml pomace brandy (ex. grappa)
- Make ready 50 grams sugar
- Prepare 1 eggs
- Get 30 grams almond
- Make ready 1 box of dried and candied fruit
- Prepare ml vegetable oil
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. On this day it is the tradition to eat a cake called "Tortell de Reis".
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. As part of French tradition, a bean or small china feve (favor) is hidden in the cake.
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