Croatian Easter Cake (“pinca”) |
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Prep Time: 200 Minutes Cook Time: 0 Minutes |
Ready In: 200 Minutes Servings: 4 |
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This is traditional Croatian Easter cake. We usually eat “pinca” on Easter morning. I made it today for the first time (it is actually in the oven right now) so I don’t know how it is going to be. I’ll submit some photograph later. Anyway, this is how I did it: Ingredients:
500 g flour (for baking bread) |
7 g yeast (instant in package) |
125 g butter |
100 g sugar (white) |
20 g sugar (with vanilla flavor, or 2 packages) |
1/2 teaspoon salt |
4 egg yolks |
150 ml milk |
1 teaspoon orange zest (grated) |
1 teaspoon lemon zest (grated) |
1 teaspoon cointreau liqueur |
Directions:
1. Put into flour yeast package, sugar, salt, yolks, warm butter (about 35°C), and the same warm milk.
2. Make dough out of it using hand first, and than hand mixer. At the very last add orange and lemon zest.
3. Cover with cloth and put into warm place for about 90 minutes or until doubles in size.
4. Take dough and put on board and knead dough ready for baking. Make 4 balls and put them together (2x2). Make cross on each ball with sharp knife.
5. Put on warm place again and wait until doubles in size (about 45 minutes).
6. Put dough into oven. Bake 45 minutes on 180°C
7. After 25 minutes of baking put some scrambled raw eggs over dough and sprinkle crystal white sugar over dough.
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