Our recipe for Easter cakes ( Paska)

Hello everybody.

 Preparations for Easter continues. I suggest you a recipe for our Easter cake.

Ingredients:

• Milk 0.5 liters
• Yeast - 50 g
• Yolks - 5 pcs.
• Margarines - 100 gr
• Butter - 100 gr
• Sugar - 1,5 cups
• Cognac (vodka) - 1 tbsp
• Oil - 2 tbsp. L.
• Raisins - 200 gr
• 0.5 tsp Salt
• vanilla
• Flour 1.5 - 2 kg

1. Preparing the sponge. Yeast dilute 1 skl.moloka, add 1 tbsp. Sugar and flour, so that the dough was like a thick sour cream. Put in a warm place at 2:00.

2. Yolks to grind with sugar, pour in a little warm milk, salt.

Margarine and butter melt, gradually mixed with yolks. The mixture is poured into a spoon, mix thoroughly. Add vanilla and raisins.

3. Pour the flour and knead for 20-30 minutes. Add oil when batching. Put the dough in a warm place. After 2 hours, again, re-mix.

4. When it is suitable (1.5 or 2 hours), decompose the fat of the mold into 1/3 of the height. 

When the dough in fotormi grows by 2/3, grease with egg white and bake in a preheated oven for 40-50 minutes about a temperature of 180 degrees Celsius.

5. Garnish with egg white and colored powder.

Happy Easter to you and your family as we celebrate our Father’s greatest sacrifice through his Son, Jesus Christ. Have a blessed Easter.