Classic Easter cake - 10 most delicious recipes

Classic Easter cake is an airy, soft pastry and a traditional Easter dish. There are a lot of recipes for the so-called Easter bread, the article contains 10 of the most proven and successful ones.

Classic Easter cake with dry yeast in the oven

Easter cakes are made from yeast dough. For the dough to rise well and quickly, it is best to use dry fast-acting yeast. The baked goods are airy and soft.

Cooking time: 3 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 6.

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  Sift half the flour into a bowl, mix it with dry yeast. Heat the milk to 35-40 degrees. Add milk to flour and stir until smooth. Cover the bowl with a towel and leave in a warm place for half an hour.
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  Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Beat the yolks with sugar and vanilla sugar until lightweight.
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  Beat whites separately until fluffy white foam.
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  Add whipped yolks, salt and softened butter to the matched dough, mix until smooth. Then lay out the protein mass and mix with gentle movements.
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  Next, sift the flour and knead the dough. Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for an hour.
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  Soak the raisins in hot water for 10 minutes, then wash, dry and roll in flour.
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  After proving, the dough should increase by a factor of 2, add the raisins and wrinkle the dough with your hands. Grease baking tins with vegetable oil and put the dough in them.
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  Preheat the oven to 100 degrees. Place the molds in the oven for 10 minutes, then increase the temperature to 180 degrees and bake the cakes for 40-45 minutes. Cool the finished cakes and decorate to your liking.

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How to bake a delicious yeast-free Easter cake with raisins?

It's time for Easter and baking Easter cakes. They can be different in size and shape, with raisins or candied fruits, from yeast dough or yeast-free. We offer you a recipe for a wonderful Easter cake with raisins without using yeast.

Cooking time: 70 minutes

Cooking time: 40 minutes

Servings: 4.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 130 gr.
• Ginger powder - 5 gr.
• Raisins - 35 gr.
• Chicken egg - 1 pc.
• Butter - 25 gr.
• Sugar - 100 gr.
• Milk - 50 ml.
• Baking powder for dough - 1/3 tsp
• Apple cider vinegar - 1 tsp
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Vanillin - 1 pinch.

Cooking process:

1. Melt the butter over low heat, add vanillin, salt and sugar to it.
2. Separate the white from the yolk. Add the yolk to the butter mass.
3. Sift flour, mix it with baking powder, baking soda and ginger powder. Add the resulting mixture to the liquid ingredients.
4. Scald the raisins with boiling water, rinse and place on a paper towel to dry. Then add the raisins and vinegar to the dough and stir.
5. Whisk the egg whites separately and place in the dough. Whisk the whipped protein into the dough very gently.
6. Grease the mold with butter, sprinkle with flour and put the dough into it.
7. Send the form with the dough to the oven, preheated to 180 degrees, and bake for 25-30 minutes. Cool the finished cake a little, decorate to your liking and serve on the festive table.

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A step-by-step recipe for making Easter cake in a bread maker

A festive table for Easter is not complete without magnificent pastries. In addition to the traditional way of baking cakes in the oven, there are simpler ones. A miracle of technology - a bread maker can come to your aid in this matter.

Cooking time: 4 hours.

Cooking time: 20 minutes.

Servings: 16.

Ingredients:

• Milk - 100 ml.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Wheat flour - 420 gr.
• Butter - 160 gr.
• Salt - 1 tsp
• Sugar - 5 tablespoons
• Dry yeast - 2.5 tsp
• Vanillin to taste.
• Raisins - 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Fill the raisins with hot water for 10 minutes, then wash and dry.
2. Pour milk, melted butter into a bucket of a bread machine, break eggs. Then add flour, yeast, salt, sugar and vanillin.
3. Select the Basic Bread program from the bread machine menu, medium crust. After the first kneading, add raisins to the bread maker.
4. It is not recommended to open the lid of the bread machine after adding raisins. Remove the finished cake from the bread machine.
5. You can use icing, whipped egg whites, or chocolate to decorate your Easter cake.

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How to bake a fluffy and fluffy Easter cake in a multicooker?

Many people associate the bright holiday Easter with Easter cakes. Therefore, each housewife sooner or later gets lost in search of her ideal recipe. And when there is a multicooker in the kitchen, the process of baking fluffy cakes can become more convenient.

Cooking time: 4 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 750 gr.
• Baked milk - 250 ml.
• Dry yeast - 10 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 4 pcs.
• Butter - 100 gr.
• Sugar - 150 gr.
• Raisins - 100-150 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet.
• Powdered sugar - 100 gr.
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Lemon juice - 0.25 tsp

Cooking process:

1. Heat the milk, dilute the yeast in it and leave for 15 minutes.
2. Sift 500 grams of flour, add salt. Pour the yeast mass into the flour, mix and leave the dough in a warm place for 30 minutes.
3. Crack the eggs, separate the yolks and beat them with sugar and vanilla sugar. Add the yolk mass and the remaining flour to the dough, mix the dough until smooth. Leave the dough for another hour in a warm place.
4. Wash the raisins, dry and roll in flour.
5. Add the raisins to the dough, stir and leave to rest for another 40 minutes.
6. Grease the bowl of the multicooker with butter, put the dough in it. Turn on the "Heating" mode for 10 minutes.
7. Bake the cake in the "Baking" mode for 1.5 hours. Remove the finished cake from the bowl and cool.
8. For the icing, whisk together the egg whites, icing sugar and lemon juice. Lubricate the surface of the cake with icing and the holiday baked goods are ready.

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Homemade classic Easter cake with raisins

The classic Easter cake with raisins is a delicacy familiar to everyone from childhood. If earlier the cake was not much different from ordinary bread, now it is supplemented with raisins, sweet icing and multi-colored sprinkles.

Cooking time: 3.5 hours.

Cooking time: 50 minutes

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Dry yeast - 2 tsp
• Flour - 0.5 kg.
• Sugar - 175 gr.
• Salt - 0.5 tsp
• Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet.
• Butter - 70 gr.
• Egg yolks - 4 pcs.
• Milk - 250 ml
• Raisins - 1 tablespoon
• Egg white - 1 pc.
• Confectionery sprinkles - for decoration.

Cooking process:

1. All ingredients for making the cake should be at room temperature.
2. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Beat the yolks with sugar until smooth. Then add vanilla sugar and warm milk.
3. Add softened butter, sifted wheat flour, salt and yeast to the egg mass. Knead the dough, cover the bowl with a towel and leave in a warm place to proof.
4. Wash the raisins with hot water, dry and add to the grown dough, mix.
5. Divide the dough into molds, leave them at room temperature for another half hour.
6. Bake the cakes in the oven at 210 degrees for 60 minutes. To decorate the cakes, beat the protein and a couple of tablespoons of sugar. Lubricate baked goods with icing and sprinkle with confectionery sprinkles.

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Incredibly tasty and airy Easter cake on sour cream

What Easter is without baked goods? We offer you a recipe for magnificent Easter cakes, which always turn out to be airy and tasty.

Cooking time: 2.5 hours.

Cooking time: 50 minutes

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 700 gr.
• Milk - 300 gr.
• Fresh yeast - 11 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Butter - 150 gr.
• Sour cream - 250 ml.
• Vanilla sugar - 2 tsp
• Raisins - 150 gr.
• Candied fruits - 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Heat the milk a little, add yeast and 250 grams of sifted flour, stir and leave the mixture in a warm place for half an hour. The dough should double.
2. Beat eggs and sugar separately until lightweight. Add the egg mass to the dough.
3. Next, put sour cream and softened butter in a bowl.
4. Pour in the remaining flour, knead the dough. It shouldn't be too tight or too sticky. Leave the dough warm for half an hour to rise.
5. Pour boiling water over the raisins, wash and dry. Add raisins and candied fruits to the dough, mix.
6. Divide the dough into molds and leave to rise for half an hour.
7. Preheat the oven to 100 degrees, put the molds with the dough in the oven for 10 minutes. Then increase the temperature to 180 degrees and bake for another 25 minutes. Cool the cakes completely and decorate to your liking.

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A simple and delicious recipe for making Easter cake with candied fruits

Delicious homemade pastries help to make the Easter holiday so warm and cozy. For lush baked goods, you need to use fresh, high-quality yeast. A delicious result is obtained by a combination of rich yeast dough and sweet candied fruits.

Cooking time: 3.5 hours.

Cooking time: 50 minutes

Servings: 6.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 450 gr.
• Sugar - 95 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Milk - 155 ml.
• Butter - 125 gr.
• Dry yeast - 7 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - 2 tsp
• Salt - 0.5 tsp
• Candied fruits - 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Heat the milk to 40 degrees. Add a tablespoon of sugar and yeast to 55 milliliters of milk, stir and leave warm for 15 minutes.
2. Pour the remaining milk into a bowl, add 2 tablespoons of flour and a tablespoon of sugar, stir.
3. Mix the two resulting masses and leave the dough in a warm place for an hour. During this time, the dough will increase 2-3 times.
4. Divide the eggs into whites and yolks. Whisk the whites separately with a pinch of salt until crisp peaks.
5. Mix the yolks with vanilla and regular sugar.
6. Next, add the dough to the yolks and mix at a low mixer speed.
7. Then add the whipped egg whites to the bowl, stir until smooth.
8. Sift the flour through a fine sieve and add to a bowl, stir until smooth.
9. Finally, add softened butter to the dough, knead until it is completely dissolved. Cover the bowl with the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for 2 hours.
10. After the dough grows up, add candied fruits to it, mix.
11. Fill the molds with the resulting dough to 1/3 of their volume. Bake the cakes in the oven at 190 degrees for 45 minutes.
12. Cool the baked goods, decorate to your liking and the holiday cakes are ready.

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Classic Easter cake craffin on the festive table

Festive Easter cake can be baked in the form of a craffin. This is a cross between a muffin and a croissant. Its whimsical wrapped shape will attract attention and will be loved by children.

Cooking time: 180 minutes

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 8.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 500 gr.
• Milk - 150 ml.
• Eggs - 2 pcs.
• Butter - 150 gr.
• Vegetable oil - 50 ml.
• Sugar - 150 gr.
• Dry yeast - 11 gr.
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Vanillin to taste.
• Coconut flakes - 1 tbsp.
• Raisins - 1.5 tbsp.

Cooking process:

1. Beat eggs with sugar.
2. Melt 50 grams of butter, 100 grams - leave at room temperature to melt.
3. Sift flour into a bowl, add dry yeast and vanillin. Pour in milk, vegetable and melted butter, stir.
4. Then pour in the egg mass, knead the dough and leave to rise in a warm place for 45 minutes.
5. Divide the dough into pieces, roll each of them, brush with soft butter, sprinkle with coconut and raisins.
6. Twist the rolls, cut them lengthwise, without cutting to the edge of 2-3 centimeters.
7. Twist each half of the roll into a spiral and fold on top of each other.
8. Arrange the resulting designs in molds. Bake the cakes at 180 degrees for 50 minutes. Sprinkle the finished cakes with powdered sugar and place them on the festive table.

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Lush and tender Easter cake with live yeast in the oven

Baking with live yeast turns out to be more fluffy and tender, but it will take a little longer. Despite this, many housewives, when preparing for Easter, prefer the dough on live yeast.

Cooking time: 4 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 12.

Ingredients:

• For the test:
• Fresh yeast - 60 gr.
• Wheat flour - 700 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 3 pcs.
• Milk - 300 ml.
• Butter - 100 gr.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Vanillin - 5 gr.
• Raisins - 100 gr.
• Dried apricots - 100 gr.
• Salt - 2 gr.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating molds.

Cooking process:

1. Pour boiling water over dried fruits for 15 minutes, then rinse and dry. Cut large dried fruits into cubes.
2. Knead the compressed yeast with your hands, they should be at room temperature. Transfer the yeast to a bowl and cover with warm milk. add a tablespoon of sugar, stir and leave the mixture warm for 15 minutes.
3. Beat the eggs separately in a bowl with the remaining sugar, salt and vanilla. Then add melted butter to a bowl and stir.
4. Combine the yeast and egg mixture. Then add the sifted flour and knead the dough. Then add dried fruits and stir. When the dough is well kneaded, transfer to a bowl, cover with a towel and leave in a warm place for 1.5 hours.
5. Grease the baking dishes with vegetable oil, fill them with 1/3 of the dough. Leave the blanks in a warm place for 15 minutes.
6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees, bake the cakes for about 40 minutes. The exact baking time depends on the size of the baked item and the power of the oven. Remove the ready-made cakes from the molds, decorate with icing or chocolate and wonderful festive pastries are ready.

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Delicious dough cake at home

Most often, Easter cakes are baked on yeast dough. The real Easter cake, according to all the traditions of Slavic cuisine, is obtained from dough. With this detailed recipe, you can make real holiday baked goods.

Cooking time: 3 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 3.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 0.5 kg.
• Butter - 125 gr.
• Milk - 200 ml.
• Egg yolk - 3 pcs.
• Vanillin - 1 pack.
• Sugar - 130 gr.
• Raisins - 100 gr.
• Pressed yeast - 35 gr.
• Sour cream - 50 ml.
• Vegetable oil - for lubricating the mold.

Cooking process:

1. Yeast should be at room temperature. Crumble yeast into 20 milliliters of warm milk, add a pinch of sugar and flour, mix and leave the dough in a warm place for half an hour.
2. Mix the yolks with a teaspoon of sugar until frothy. Melt the butter, cool and add to the yolks.
3. Add sugar and vanilla sugar to the remaining milk.
4. In a volumetric bowl, mix the matched dough, the yolk mass and part of the sifted flour, mix. Gradually add the remaining flour until the dough is soft and not sticky. Wash the raisins, dry them and add to the dough.
5. Cover the finished dough with a towel and leave in a warm place to rise for an hour.
6. Line the molds with baking paper and brush with vegetable oil. Fill the molds with dough 1/3 of the volume, leave in a warm place for another 15-20 minutes.
7. Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 25-40 minutes. Remove the finished baked goods from the molds, cool completely on wire racks, then decorate with glaze.

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