The recipe for the Easter cake

In our time, there are a wide variety of recipes for all kinds of baking, without which there is not a single holiday, and we are so used to it that it seems as if it always existed. But this is not so. For example, the first mention of a Christmas cake refers to the XIV century, and the recipe for a sand cake appeared in monastery bakeries only in the 16th century. With the production of sugar-refined sugar, baking began to be produced on an industrial scale. The recipe for the Easter cake appeared in Italy, where Christmas and Easter are considered home holidays.

We offer a recipe for the Easter cake with lemon, which is ideal for home tea drinking. To bake this cake you will need the following ingredients:

* Butter 100 g
* Flour 300 gr
* Sugar 150 gr
* Egg 3 pieces
* Milk 50 gr
* Soda 0.5 teaspoon
* Lemon 1 piece
* Powdered sugar for sprinkling

The recipe for the Easter cake contains the simplest foods that every housewife probably has. To make an Easter cake, you need to mash the butter, add sugar and lemon zest to it and carefully grind it.

Then the eggs are introduced into the resulting mixture and whipped until the sugar is completely dissolved, after which the milk is poured in with soda, lemon juice, wheat flour and knead the dough. Form before baking should be oiled, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and lay out the dough. Form with a test put in a preheated to 180 degrees oven and bake until ready for about an hour.

That the dough does not opal during baking, in the first 20 minutes the form with the test can not be moved. The readiness of the product is determined by a wooden stick, piercing it to the middle: if it remains dry, the cupcake is ready. And if he is browned on top, but not yet poured from the inside, it is covered from above with thick paper.

The finished product should not be removed immediately from the mold, since it can break. When the cupcake has cooled, it is taken out and cut into pieces, and then spread on a plate and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

On request, muffins can be covered with chocolate, sugar or fruit glaze or sprinkled with nuts. The form of cupcakes is very different - square, domed, in the form of a ring, a log or a heart.

The recipe for the Easter cake can be changed a little by adding some ingredients, for example, raisins, nuts, spices or candied fruit. To make the dough soft, it should be kneaded from the top down and as quickly as possible, and that the structure of the cake is fine-grained, the whites are whipped into a foam and then introduced into the dough, after the flour.

These tips apply to all types of cupcakes, including the cottage cheese Easter cake.
For the recipe you need:

* Flour 1.5 cups
* Cottage cheese 200 gr
* Eggs 3 pieces
* Sugar 1 glass
* Butter 130 g
* Raisins 1 glass
* Soda 0.5 teaspoon
*Lemon juice
*Salt
*Powdered sugar

First, as in the previous recipe, butter is blanched with sugar. Then alternately add egg yolks, cottage cheese, soda, stewed with lemon juice and raisins. All mix quickly, add flour and salt to the tip of the knife. Proteins are whipped into a steep foam, carefully added to the dough and finally kneaded. The dough is placed in a mold and baked. The finished cooled cake is taken from the mold and sprinkled with powdered sugar.

Easter chocolate cake is better to bake in a special form, which gives it a circular shape. For chocolate cake you need to take the following ingredients:

* Flour 2 cups
* Oil or margarine 200 gr
* Eggs 4 pieces
* Sugar 1,5 cups
* Milk 0.5 cups
* Cocoa 4 tablespoons
* Soda 0.5 teaspoons
* Vanilla, raisins, nuts if desired

Oil or margarine put in a pan, melt and add to it cocoa, sugar and milk. All ingredients should be mixed well, and then boiled. When the mass cools down, add flour, soda and eggs, as well as flavorings, for example raisins. Ready-made cake can be glazed with icing or sprinkled with powdered sugar.