Small Easter cakes with raisins and icing
Ingredients
- 3 eggs
- 230 g sugar
- 125 g butter
- 35 g yeast, fresh
- 240 ml milk, steamed
- 100 g raisins
- 600 g flour
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch vanilla
- 1-2 tbsp vegetable oil
- 150 g icing sugar
- sugar sprinkles, to taste
Utensils
- bowl
- cling film
- paper towels
- strainer
- baking cups
Instructions
- Beat two eggs and one egg yolk in a bowl with sugar.
- Add melted butter.
- Mix yeast into warm, steamed milk.
- Also add to eggs.
- Cover bowl with cling film, 8-12 hours let stand at room temperature.
- Soak the raisins in the boiling water for about 5-7 minutes.
- Drain the water and dry with paper towels.
- Add the sifted flour, salt, vanilla and raisins to the mixture.
- Grease hands with oil to the mixture does not stick to them.
- Knead a dough out of it.
- Cover the bowl again with cling film.
- Let it rise in a warm place for 60-90 minutes.
- Knead the yeast dough again, place in small greased molds.
- Leave to rise for another hour or an hour and a half.
- In the meantime the dough should have doubled in size by about 1.5 times.
- Place in the preheated oven and bake at 180°C for 30 minutes.
- Reduce the temperature to 160°C , bake an additional 10-20 minutes.
- For the icing, whisk the egg white with the icing sugar.
- Spread over the cooled Easter cake.
- Decorate the Easter cake with sprinkles and serve with the Easter brunch.
Steamed milk can also be replaced with regular milk.