Traditional symbols of Easter in the Czech Republic are lambs, eggs, cats, hares, chickens. You can try to bake such a lamb yourself at home from butter dough.
It is necessary
- • Eggs - 4 pieces
- • Flour - 350 gr
- • Butter - 180 gr
- • Sugar - 280 gr
- • Milk - 170 gr
- • Baking dough - 1.5 tsp.
- • Raisins - 1 handful
- • Orange zest - 1 tsp.
- • Semolina - 1.5 tbsp. l.
- • Sour cream - 120 gr
- • Coconut flakes - 100 gr
- In addition, you will need a double form in the form of a lamb (bunny, chicken), a mixer, an oven.
Instructions
Step 1
Remove all ingredients from the refrigerator in advance so that they warm up to room temperature. Beat eggs with sugar using a mixer until dense, airy foam.
Step 2
Add milk and butter to the egg-sugar mass, then add flour sifted in advance and mixed with baking powder there.
Step 3
Rub the orange zest on a fine grater. Soak the raisins in hot water for 5 minutes, dry with a towel and roll in flour. Add zest and raisins to the dough.
Step 4
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. FROM.
To make the cake easily come out of the mold and not fall apart, grease the mold with oil and sprinkle with semolina, remove the remaining semolina by turning the mold upside down.
Pour the dough into the prepared mold, smooth with a spatula so that there are no voids left. Cover with the second part of the form, bake in the oven for 1, 5-2 hours. You need to bake such a lamb for a long time at a moderate temperature. Otherwise, it will burn on the outside, but will not bake inside.
Step 5
Check readiness with a wooden skewer through the steam outlet.
Grease the baked lamb with sour cream and sugar and sprinkle with coconut. Depict the eyes in the form of raisins. You can pour melted chocolate over the finished lamb. Melted chocolate in a water bath.
