Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake
Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake

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This is the day that families get together for a huge feast, unwrap presents (brought by the Three Wise Men/Kings), and head out to watch a parade of elaborately-decorated floats. Great recipe for Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake. Roscón means "cake in the shape of a crown" and de reyes means "kings", which gives us "crown of the kings".

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook roscón de reyes - spanish christmas cake using 24 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
  1. Prepare Preferment
  2. Make ready 1/2 cup (120 ml) warm milk
  3. Prepare 4 g instant dry yeast
  4. Get 1 tsp sugar
  5. Get 2 tsp bread flour
  6. Take 💕For The Dough
  7. Get 4 cups (440 g) bread flour
  8. Get 1/4 tsp salt
  9. Take 50 g sugar
  10. Take 120 ml milk
  11. Get 3 eggs
  12. Take Zest of an orange
  13. Take 15 ml vanilla extract
  14. Get 1 tsp orange blossom water
  15. Take 60 g soft unsalted butter
  16. Prepare 💕Fillings
  17. Take 2 cups Pearl sugar (I used 80g)
  18. Take 150 g dried apricots
  19. Take 1/2 cups dried cranberries (soaked with 50ml Rum or orange)
  20. Get 💕For the decoration
  21. Take 1 egg yolk
  22. Get 30 ml milk
  23. Get 30 g almond flakes
  24. Take 30 g pearl sugar

Roscón De Reyes - Spain's Christmas Cake. Here in Spain, it's not usual to bake a Christmas cake, but there is one cake that every household will enjoy over the Christmas period - the Roscón de Reyes, or "The ring of the Kings.". In Spain and across the Spanish-speaking world, it's Roscón de reyes or rosca de reyes. Epiphany, or the feast of the three kings, is special in Spain.

Steps to make Roscón de reyes - Spanish Christmas Cake:
  1. In a smaller bowl, Stir the yeast into the lukewarm milk & flour. Cover & let it double in size. (1)
  2. For the dough: In a standing mixing bowl with a dough hook, add flour, sugar, salt & (1), milk, eggs. Mix for about 10 minutes until the dough becomes fluffy. Meanwhile put orange zest, vanilla, butter and knead well until the dough is smooth & elastic. To enhance orange flavor, add a tsp of orange blossom water. Place the dough in a bowl, cover and leave in a moderately warm place to double in size.
  3. Turn the dough out onto a surface and knead for 3-4 minutes. - Flour the surface and roll the dough out to about 60 cm x 12 cm (24"x 5"). Sprinkle sugar, dried apricots, cranberries. Roll the dough very carefully. With a knife, cut the dough in half. Put one side over & over & make like a braid.
  4. Transfer the dough into a greased pan. Let the dough rest about 30 minutes then brush with egg mixture. Sprinkle pearl sugar on top of it.
  5. Preheat the oven at 170oC. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 25-30 minutes – check after 15 minutes and cover with aluminum foil if the top gets too dark. The roscón should get a nice golden color on top. Take out of the oven and let cool down completely. Best served warm.

Traditionally, that's when Spanish children receive their gifts, delivered by the Magi rather than Father Christmas. This upbeat Epiphany carol captures the spirit of the celebration well. Rosca de Reyes around the world. Roscón de reyes is the ultimate king cake in all Spanish houses but also in other countries in Latin America like Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina, where it was imported. Mexican rosca de reyes is registered in the Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage in France.

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