Easter cake is a special festive type of bread for Easter. It is baked from yeast dough with the addition of eggs, butter and sugar. But for those who do not like to tinker with yeast dough, we can advise you to cook Easter cake with raisins and lemon zest according to this recipe.
It is necessary
- For three servings:
- - 500 g of wheat flour;
- - 250 g of raisins;
- - 250 g butter;
- - 250 g of sugar;
- - 130 ml of milk;
- - 80 ml of rum;
- - 4 eggs;
- - 1 lemon;
- - 4 tbsp. tablespoons of ground almonds;
- - 1 teaspoon baking powder.
Instructions
Step 1
Oil the baking dish and sprinkle with almonds. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Step 2
Soak the raisins in the rum. Squeeze the juice out of the lemon, rub the zest on a grater.
Step 3
Whisk the butter and sugar until all the sugar is dissolved. Add eggs one at a time, mix thoroughly.
Step 4
Add 3/4 of the zest, pour in the lemon juice, stir again. Mix flour with baking powder. Knead the dough, adding milk and flour in turn. The dough should come out thick, do not pour the milk!
Step 5
Squeeze out the raisins, sprinkle with flour, stir into the dough.
Step 6
Fill each pan 1/2 full and bake for 60 minutes in the oven. Cool the cakes, garnish with the rest of the lemon peel.
