A great holiday is approaching for all Orthodox people - the Holy Resurrection of Christ or Easter. On this day Lent ends, and various dishes appear on the tables. One of the traditional Easter dishes is Easter cake. After all, everyone knows how quickly they want to bite off magic pastries, which are specially prepared and served only once a year. And today we have found for you the best recipes for Easter cakes. We are sure that each of you, dear readers, will find a festive cake recipe to your liking.
10. Easter cake "Early" in milk
Let's start with the simplest and most uncomplicated recipe, according to which you can quickly prepare an Easter cake (which, in principle, follows from the name). To bake Easter cake, we need only 7 ingredients, including flour, sugar, eggs, butter, milk, raisins and a pinch of yeast. As a rule, at any hostess all these products are available on an ongoing basis, except that a handful of raisins will need to be purchased separately. The cooking process takes no more than an hour. So, if you have a minimum of free time, and there are a lot of people who want to taste Easter cake in the house, then this recipe will do just fine.
9. The recipe "Monastic"
The following recipe will be a little more difficult to execute, however, everything is still available to the chef of any level and is also not too time-consuming. The list of ingredients in this case is expanding - a little warm water, candied fruit, as well as spices in the form of cinnamon and cardamom are added. The best way to cook is if you leave the kneaded dough overnight. At the same time, the basis of our Easter cake will become magnificent, and in the morning it will take you very little time to roll out the dough and arrange it into shapes. Kulich according to this recipe is not covered with glaze, so it looks like it is really baked in a real monastery. However, if desired, baking can be decorated to your taste.
8. Chocolate cake
Cake made according to this recipe will definitely be unusual. Firstly, chocolate cake is radically different from "colleagues" in the color of the dough (it turns darker) and taste. Secondly, for cooking you can use both a conventional oven and a bread machine. The latter, by the way, will do everything for you too - you only need to lay the products in a certain sequence. In this case, walnuts, cinnamon, cocoa powder, and also chocolate itself are added to the ingredients that make up the basis of the dough for Easter cake (chocolate) (dark is best). While the bread maker is working, you can prepare icing and decorations so that the cake is presentable.
7. "Siberian" Easter cake
In the Soviet culinary book of the 60s, the recipe for Easter cake called "Siberian" is listed as old Russian. Therefore, this method of cooking Easter food for at least a century certainly. A set of ingredients for baking "Siberian" Easter cake is a kind of standard. Of the products that distinguish this recipe, vanilla sugar can be distinguished, due to which the cake is especially aromatic. The pleasant smell of baking dough with the addition of vanilla will return you to the world of childhood, where your grandmother carefully and heartily prepared cakes for every Easter. Actually, the taste of Siberian also resembles that same pastry from distant childhood.
6. Easter cake on baked milk
But the recipe for those who want to feel the fullness of the taste of Easter baking. Is it even worth talking about the taste of the cake, which is based on baked milk? In fact, besides it, among the products for cooking there is vanilla sugar, which gives the baking a fabulous aroma. The creators of the recipe decided that a couple of tablespoons of brandy would not be out of place here. Well, what can I say - the result is a very high-calorie, but insanely delicious dish, worthy of a great holiday. Everyone just without fail needs to at least once taste such Easter cake - believe me, you instantly forget about calories!
5. Curd cake
But what if cottage cheese is adored in your family, and business will obviously not be limited to traditional Easter? Well, in such a case there is a special recipe for the holiday cake, in which you can safely add your favorite ingredient. It is cottage cheese in this case that will be the basis for the test. You will also need a standard list of products, which includes flour, butter, sugar and eggs. Add raisins and aromatic vanillin, traditional for Easter baking. Well, to give a special shade of taste, sprinkle a little lemon juice in the dough. To make our Easter cake magnificent, it is important to wipe the cottage cheese with a sieve before cooking.
4. Kulich Kraffin
A feature of this Easter cake is that Kraffin has a spiral configuration that is not standard for Easter baking. In addition, this is the only Easter cake (at least on our list), where along with raisins dried cranberries are indicated in the recipe - it must be a very unusual dish. However, we leave the right of berry choice at the mercy of the mistress, and find out how the spiral is nevertheless made. To do this, it is necessary to roll out several layers of dough, season them with a filling of berries and almond petals and gently curl. The resulting rolls should be cut in half lengthwise, and then twist one half, and on top of it - the other. That's the whole tasty secret.
3. Custard cake with candied fruit
Candied fruits are the second most popular berry-fruit supplement in Easter cakes. We’ll add them to the dough if we plan to cook custard baked goods according to this recipe. However, no one forbids us to combine candied and raisins in the cake in the proportion in which the soul desires. In terms of the composition of the test, there are practically no differences from most of our today's recipes, unless yeast must be used live. To give additional taste during cooking, you can add lemon peel and a couple of spices in the form of nutmeg or cardamom to the dough. Also, to get a subtle flavor, you can spray a few drops of brandy.
2. Easter cake with raisins
Yeah, everywhere only ready-made recipes with ingredients and proportions. And let's take it and fantasize! Under the general name "Easter Cake with Raisins" we mean the fact that we have a standard basis for the test and, in fact, raisins. Further - everything that your soul desires. For example, you can spice up Easter cake with nuts or seeds. Or hide a few chocolate wedges in the dough before going to the oven. But what if instead of the glaze in the finished cake, internal splashes of cream are made? Maybe add orange zest or coconut? One way or another, there are a great many design options for Easter baking - it all depends on your imagination and taste preferences.
1. The "royal" cake
Well, our "rich" and respectable Easter cake with the corresponding name crowns our list of recipes. The list of ingredients here is impressive. Cream, candied pineapple, almonds and cardamom are mandatory components of the “Royal” Easter cake. It is worth noting that such pastries are not whipped up quickly, and it will take a lot of time to cook. The dough is certainly kneaded by hand, and the tenderness and splendor of the finished Easter cake depends on the intensity and duration you did it. However, all the efforts and efforts will be paid off at the Easter table, where the “Tsar's” Easter cake will deservedly take one of the main places.