How to Make Award-winning Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake)

Jane Todd   28/08/2020 11:59

Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake)
Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake)

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, roscón de reyes (three kings cake). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake) is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

This is the day that families get together for a huge feast, unwrap presents (brought by the Three Wise Men/Kings), and head out to watch a parade of elaborately-decorated floats. This delicious cake is eaten with hot chocolate on the night of Epiphany when the Three Kings arrive and leave gifts for children. Whoever finds the Christ Child figure in the cake is crowned and becomes the 'king' or 'queen' of the banquet.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have roscón de reyes (three kings cake) using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake):
  1. Get 400 g flour
  2. Prepare 3 eggs
  3. Take 100 g butter
  4. Get 100 g sugar
  5. Take 1 tsp baking powder
  6. Get 1/4 liter milk (250 ml)
  7. Make ready zest of 1 lemon
  8. Make ready dried mixed peel for decorating
  9. Get salt
  10. Take Small trinkets and a broad bean/fava bean

This is a sugar free recipe but it contains so many goodies that it really struggles to qualify as a low carb cake. Great recipe for Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake). It traditionally has small figures or trinkets, and a broad bean hidden inside the cake. Whoever finds the bean, according to tradition, can expect to receive coal rather than presents from the Kings.

Instructions to make Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake):
  1. Mix the baking powder in a glass with 4 Tbsp of the milk then add this to 100 g of the flour and mix together until it forms a dough type mixture. Cover with a clean tea towel and set aside until it doubles in size.
  2. Place the rest of the flour (300g) in a bowl and add the eggs, sugar, pinch of salt, the rest of the milk and zest of the lemon. Mix well then add the butter and continue mixing for a further 2 mins then add the dough mixture. Once a smooth dough has been achieved cover and set aside for 2 hours.
  3. After 2 hours knead the mixture a little before placing it on a greased baking tray in the form of a ring. Put some little figures wrapped up in foil inside the mixture and also a broad bean.
  4. Brush with milk, decorate using the mixed peel, lightly sprinkle with sugar and place in a pre-heated oven (160°C/320°F) for 15 - 20 minutes.

Bake to the roots Not only the flavors are different here - also the whole story around the cake and it's traditions. In the German or Swiss King's Cake you can find a little plastic/ceramic figure, or if you don't have one, you can use a hazelnut or almond - you hide it in the cake and the one that finds it is the. Dia de Reyes or simply Reyes is the day when children in Spain receive gifts from the Reyes Magos-Wise Men or Magi—the three kings who brought baby Jesus gifts. Instead of gifts from Santa Claus, the children receive them from the Reyes Magos. This date commemorates the visit the Three Wise Men made to the baby Jesus in Bethlehem.

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