Cook Time | 120 minutes |
Servings |
Ingredients
- 700 gram Flour wheat / Flour highest grade, protein content not lower than 10%
- 250 milliliters Cream (20%)
- 6 pieces Egg yolk C0
- 50 milliliters Water
- 100 gram Butter
- 350 gram Sugar
- 14 gram Yeast
- 1 pack Vanilla sugar
- 200 gram Raisins to taste
- 1 tablespoon Cognac
- 1 piece Egg white
- 200 gram Sugar powder
Ingredients
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Instructions
- Before cooking, whisk the cream well in the package. heat 100 ml of cream and 50 ml of water to a warm state, 2 tablespoons of sugar; mix 2 tablespoons of flour with a slide with high-speed yeast, combine dry and liquid ingredients, mix until smooth, leave to mature. As soon as the dough starts to fall off, it's ready. To prepare the dough, do not use yeast from opened packs and with an expiring expiration date. For those who use only pressed baker's yeast - this portion will require about - 30 g of yeast (optional).
- Pour the sponge cake, egg yolks whipped with sugar into a bowl, add melted warm butter, pour in warm cream, alcohol – mix with a mixer, add sifted wheat flour, salt, vanilla sugar in portions, knead the dough with a hook or a bread maker attachment. Knead the dough for 10-15 minutes. With manual kneading, first knead with a spoon, then adding flour to proceed to manual kneading. The dough turns out sticky - if you knead it by hand, you can't do without a scraper! Sprinkle the dough with flour when kneading, so that it does not clog!
- Pre-rinse the raisins, soak them in alcohol or water, dry them, put them on a towel. Knead the dough that has come up, pull it into a rectangle with your hands, put the prepared raisins in the middle, knead it in the dough for 5-10 minutes. Assemble the dough into a ball, put it in a bowl greased with vegetable oil, cover with cling film. The second proofing of the dough, about 1.5 hours. (I have a second proofing without raisins). The dough that has come up (about 1800 g) is pressed down, divided into portions, browned. Spread out on prepared molds (greased with oil and sprinkled with flour) 1/3 of the height, proofing for about 60 minutes to increase at least 2 times.
- Bake the cakes at an average temperature of 180 C. If the dough is well suited for molds, bake in a preheated oven, if the rise is not quite maximum, put it in a cold oven, preheat to 160 degrees, after 10-15 minutes bring the temperature to 180 C. Bake until ready - try on a dry bar. Bake a cake weighing less than 1 kg for 30 minutes, 1 kg - 45 minutes, 1.5 kg - 1 hour, 2 kg - 1.5 hours. It is important not to over-dry the cakes so that the crumb is not dry. To make the cakes very browned - cover the tops of the cakes with soaked baking paper or foil. Slightly cool the cakes in the molds and put them to cool on a soft surface, periodically turning the cakes on their side.