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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. In Mexico, the day is a gift-giving holiday.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook catalan three kings' cake using 27 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Catalan Three kings' cake:
- Prepare Sourdough
- Take 2 grams fresh yeast
- Get 90 grams bread flour
- Get 60 ml whole milk
- Prepare Dough
- Prepare 1 large egg
- Make ready 350 grams bread flour
- Make ready 80 granulated sugar
- Take 15 ml cointreau
- Take 15 ml orange flower water
- Take 7 grams fresh yeast
- Get 60 ml whole milk
- Prepare 70 grams unsalted butter
- Make ready Marzipan
- Make ready 75 grams groung almond
- Take 25 grams ground hazelnut
- Prepare 15 grams ground walnut
- Get 15 grams ground coconut
- Get 85 grams powdered sugar
- Make ready 1 egg yolk
- Take Topping
- Get 60 ml pomace brandy (ex. grappa)
- Take 50 grams sugar
- Make ready 1 eggs
- Take 30 grams almond
- Make ready 1 box of dried and candied fruit
- Prepare ml vegetable oil
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 Christmas season; in other places, it is associated with the pre-Lenten celebrations of Mardi Gras/Carnival. There are many variants, but this one is the classic one. The Three Kings, loads of camels, wagons full of presents, dancing girls, marching bands and a very, very large cart of coal will wind their way through the streets of the Catalan capital with their highnesses throwing sweets to the excited niños. The Three Kings Day tradition is one of the most celebrated holidays in not only Barcelona but the whole of Spain.
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
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. Roscón means "cake in the shape of a crown" and de reyes means "kings", which gives us "crown of the kings". Roscón de Reyes is a sweet ring-shaped bread that is prepared with a sweet, yeasted dough and comes topped with sugar and candied or dried fruit.
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