The bread machine having in the functions a baking characteristic not only bread but also cakes, will help to make amazing pastries. Pay attention - at the bread machine this mode can be called "home-made pastries" or "baking of cakes". And if there is a function of the postponed start, then, having made some preparations since evening, to morning coffee you can receive fresh, warm cake.
It is required to you
- 200 g of a desi
- 4 eggs
- 150 g of sugar and 50 g of icing sugar
- 300 g of wheat flour
- salt
- 1 lemon
- 1 tsps of baking powder for the test
- 1 tablespoons of cognac
- 100 g of raisin
- 100 g of candied fruits
- 100 g of nuts
Instruction
1. In advance prepare a desi. It has to be softened. For this purpose in several hours get it from the fridge and sustain at the room temperature. It is possible to break periodically it on small parts. Or slightly warm up a piece of oil in the microwave and knead it. But be careful — when heating oil very easy to pass the moment when it spreads. And the kindled oil isn't necessary for you.
2. Carefully wash up and wipe dry a lemon and prepare a dried peel. The easiest way will be to rub a thin skin on a small grater. However it is necessary to do it very carefully not to touch a white layer. It will give to your cake bitterness. The removed accurately lemon dried peel gives only a fine aroma of a lemon. To cut off only a yellow thin skin from a lemon, it is necessary to scald it previously. The removed dried peel should be dried up and pounded in the coffee grinder or a culinary mortar.
3. Soaking of candied fruits will become one more preparatory moment. Carefully wash out raisin in hot water, put in a bowl, add to it the necessary quantity of candied fruits and fill in them with boiled water. In such look berries and fruit need to stay minutes five. Drain water, fill in candied fruits and raisin with cold boiled water.
4. Put the softened desi and granulated sugar in mixer capacity. Shake up mix in homogeneous mass. Hammer into it eggs, it is a little salt — about a half of a teaspoon or slightly less, fill up vanillin and again mix.
5. Fill in the received weight in the capacity of your bread machine, pour a dried peel there and squeeze out juice from the remained lemon. Fill up from above previously sifted flour. Process of sifting will enrich flour with oxygen and pastries will turn out more magnificent. Add baking powder.
6. Drain water from candied fruits and raisin and too fill up them in the bread machine. Put chopped nuts. You will expose the program, suitable for pastries ("sweet bread" or "home-made cake") and, if desired, time of the beginning of baking. After the bread machine a signal tells you that cake is ready, lay out it on a dish and strew with icing sugar.