Easter cake on dough - 5 step-by-step cooking recipes

Easter cake is a traditional holiday pastry, which is most often baked with yeast dough. We offer you 5 recipes for making wonderful dough cakes.

Easter cake on dough with live yeast

On the bright holiday of Easter, soft and airy cakes are always present on the festive table. How to properly knead the dough on a dough of live yeast, you will learn from this recipe.

Cooking time: 4 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 6-8.

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  Heat the milk slightly. Dissolve room temperature yeast in 20 milliliters of milk, add a pinch of sugar and flour, mix. Leave the dough in a warm place for half an hour.
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  Beat the yolks with a teaspoon of sugar.
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  Pour the remaining sugar and vanillin into warm milk. Melt the butter over low heat, cool it and mix with the yolk mass.
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  Sift the flour through a sieve.
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  In a large bowl, combine the dough, sour cream, egg and butter mixture, and some of the flour. Then add the remaining flour in small portions and knead the dough. Wash the raisins, dry them and add to the dough.
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  Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for an hour to grow.
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  After an hour, spread the dough into oiled tins. Leave the molds with the dough for another 40-60 minutes in a warm place.
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  Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 40-60 minutes. Cool the baked goods completely and decorate to your liking.

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Easter cake on dough with dry yeast in the oven

If you want to please your loved ones with air cakes prepared according to all traditions, then this recipe will come in handy for you. With such cakes, your holiday will be bright and tasty.

Cooking time: 4 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 10-12.

Ingredients:

• Milk - 500 ml.
• Dry yeast - 11 gr.
• Flour - 1-1.3 kg.
• Chicken eggs - 6 pcs.
• Butter - 200 gr.
• Sugar - 250-350 gr.
• Raisins - 300 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp

Cooking process:

1. Heat the milk a little and dissolve the dry yeast in it.
2. Pour the sifted flour into the dough. Mix the dough with flour until smooth and leave in a warm place for half an hour, covered with a towel.
3. Break the eggs and separate the whites from the yolks. Mash the yolks with sugar.
4. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt until a fluffy white foam is obtained.
5. Add the yolk mass to the matched dough, mix. Then put the softened butter in a container.
6. Next, add the whipped egg whites, stir the dough with gentle, slow movements.
7. Then add the remaining sifted flour in portions, knead the dough well and leave it in a warm place for an hour. During this time, it will grow well.
8. Soak the raisins in warm water for 10 minutes, then wash and dry. Add the raisins to the dough, stir and leave the dough in a warm place to rise.
9. Grease the baking dishes with oil, fill them with 1/3 of the volume with dough. Leave the molds with the dough for half an hour in a warm place.
10. Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 30-40 minutes. The baked goods rise well and acquire a beautiful golden crust.

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How to bake an Easter cake in a dough in a bread maker?

Traditionally, the hostess bakes Easter cakes in the oven, but if you have such a multifunctional technique as a bread maker in your kitchen, then you cannot help but use it.It is specially designed to get fluffy baked goods without any difficulties.

Cooking time: 3.5 hours.

Cooking time: 30 minutes.

Servings: 8-10.

Ingredients:

• Wheat flour - 3.5 tbsp.
• Fresh yeast - 35 gr.
• Milk - 1 tbsp.
• Cognac - 0.5 tbsp
• Egg yolks - 3-4 pcs.
• Vanillin to taste.
• Butter - 125 gr.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Salt - 0.5 tsp
• Raisins - 150 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Put half of the sifted flour and yeast, previously diluted in warm milk, in a bucket of a bread machine. Activate the Bread program and wait for the bread maker to knead the dough.
2. After that, turn off the bread maker and leave the dough for 40 minutes.
3. Beat the yolks with sugar, then add salt, vanillin, cognac and softened butter, mix until smooth.
4. When the dough comes up, activate the Basic Bread program and add the yolk-butter mass to the bucket.
5. When the mass becomes more or less homogeneous, add the second part of the flour.
6. After about 30 minutes, the bread maker will give a signal to load the raisins. Some models of bread makers have a special dispenser for this.
7. After the end of kneading, close the lid of the bread maker and do not open it until the signal for baking is ready. Cool the finished cake on a wire rack and decorate with icing.

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A simple and delicious recipe for curd cake on a dough

Not only the delicious crumb of yeast baked goods, but also its incredible aroma make the housewives start cooking cakes again and again. Elegant curd cakes with a sweet white hat will take pride of place on the festive Easter table.

Cooking time: 3.5 hours.

Cooking time: 60 minutes

Servings: 6-8.

Ingredients:

• For dough:
• Milk - 0.25 tbsp.
• Flour - 1 tablespoon
• Sugar - 1 tsp
• Dry yeast - 8 gr.
• For the test:
• Cottage cheese - 250 gr.
• Butter - 50 gr.
• Sugar - 2/3 tbsp.
• Salt - 2/3 tsp
• Chicken eggs - 2 pcs.
• Chicken yolk - 1 pc.
• Flour - 2 tbsp.
• Raisins - 2/3 tbsp.
• Candied fruits - 2/3 tbsp.
• Vanilla sugar - 1 tsp
• Lemon zest - 1 tsp
• Turmeric - 0.5 tsp

Cooking process:

1. Make a dough. Add flour, sugar and yeast to warm milk, stir and leave in a warm place for 15-20 minutes.
2. Combine curd with melted butter, salt, vanilla, lemon zest and turmeric.
3. Beat eggs, yolk and sugar with a mixer. Then add this mass to the curd, mix.
4. When the dough comes up, mix it with the curd mass.
5. Sprinkle raisins and candied fruits with flour.
6. Add sifted flour in portions to the curd mass, knead the dough.
7. Then stir the dried fruits into the dough.
8. Grease the molds with oil or cover with baking paper. Fill the molds with 1/3 of their volume with dough, leave them warm for 40-60 minutes, during which time the dough will rise.
9. Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 40-50 minutes. Thanks to turmeric, the crumb of the cake acquires a rich yellow color.

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Easter cake on dough with raisins at home

Easter is on the doorstep. This simple recipe makes the cakes soft and fluffy. The dough rises well, and the raisins add even more sweetness and juiciness to holiday baked goods.

Cooking time: 6 o'clock.

Cooking time: 90 minutes

Servings: 12.

Ingredients:

• Flour - 900 gr.
• Milk - 300 ml.
• Margarine - 150 gr.
• Sugar - 1 tbsp.
• Fresh yeast - 40 gr.
• Chicken eggs - 7 pcs.
• Salt - 1 pinch
• Seedless raisins - 200 gr.
• Vanilla sugar - to taste.

Cooking process:

1. Crumble the yeast into warm milk, add half the sugar, salt and 250 grams of sifted flour. Stir the ingredients and place in a warm place. When the dough rises, lower it, do it a couple more times.
2. Soak the raisins in hot water, wash and dry. If it is large, then chop it up.
3. Separate the whites from the yolks. You won't need proteins in the recipe; you can make icing from them for decoration. Melt the margarine over low heat, cool, mix with the yolks, the remaining sugar and vanilla sugar.
4. Mix the well-grown dough with the yolk mass. Add sifted flour and raisins, knead the dough. Place it in a warm place to rise for 40-60 minutes. Then stir the dough with your hands and proof it again.
5. Divide the finished dough into oiled tins. Leave the molds with the dough for half an hour in a warm place before placing in the oven.
6. Bake the cakes in the oven at 180 degrees for 35-45 minutes. Cool the baked goods and decorate to your liking.

Bon Appetit!