So that the air bubbles in the dough do not burst, I use grandmother's wisdom, rises as if alive.

It is accepted to bake cakes for Easter on Clean Thursday. On this day, the hostess clean the house and bake cakes with prayer, waiting for a bright holiday. In 2022, Easter is celebrated on April 24. They say that it is not worth baking kulichs after Clean Thursday, but it takes several hours of time. If you do not have time to stir the dough for an hour, I advise you to prepare a quick cake without mixing the dough.



The recipe for the main attribute of the Bright Easter hostess is traditionally passed from generation to generation. Although there are many recipes online now, they all involve kneading the dough with your hands. Housewives who have a large family bake cakes for all their relatives, and for this they make a large amount of dough with their hands, sometimes it takes several hours.

Before mixing the dough, it is necessary to read the prayer “Our Father” and with bright thoughts begin to prepare Easter bread. Even now, when housewives have planetary mixers, sacred bread should traditionally be stirred with hands. Some even bake cakes in the oven in the old-fashioned way. Today we will prepare a quick cake without mixing dough in the oven with cereal, it will be very tasty. This recipe was taught to me by my grandmother, who in her old age could not knead the dough for a long time. Kulichi she was always excellent, because baked their grandmother from home milk and fresh eggs.



The ingredients

• 650g flour
• 320 ml milk
• 200g sugar
• 200g butter
• 300g candied
• 50g raisins
• 100ml orange juice
• 8g dry yeast
• 2 eggs
• 6g baking powder
• lemon peel
• peel
• vanilla

Preparation

1. Mix the sugar with the peel of lemon and orange. Then add 2 tbsp of sugar to warm milk, add 8 g of dry yeast and stir everything with a corolla. Leave the opar for 7 minutes in a warm place. Instead of dry yeast, you can take 25 g of pressed.
   
   
   
   
2. Mix softened butter with sugar, salt and vanilla. Add the eggs and stir everything to uniformity.
3. In a separate container, mix sifted flour and baking powder. Pour the steam into the dough and add the egg cream mixture. Mix the viscous dough with a spatula. The dough must be viscous and sticky. Cover the dough with food film or kitchen towel and leave in a warm place for 1 hour.
   
   
   
   
4. Raisins soak in hot water, after a few minutes drain the water and add 100 ml of orange juice to the raisins. Then prepare forms for cakes, in this case, the dough is enough for 4 small cakes, which are baked in forms with a diameter of 12 cm.
5. Strain raisins through a sieve and paper towel remove moisture residues, then mix the raisins with candied fruit and sprinkle them with flour.
6. Lubricate your hands with vegetable refined oil and dress the dough. Stir the candied dough. When the mass becomes uniform, divide the dough into 4 equal parts and spread out into shapes.
   
   
   
   
7. Leave the dough in the forms under cover for another 1 hour. Then bake cakes in the oven heated to 180 degrees 35-40 minutes.
8. Depending on the oven, the time of baking cakes can vary. Check the baking readiness with a wooden sword. Ready cakes carefully lay out horizontally on a grille covered with a towel. From time to time, turn over the cakes so that they do not stick, because the dough turns out to be very tender.
   
   
   
   

Editorial Board At the request of kulich can be decorated with sugar glaze. Earlier we wrote about how to make different types of glazes. The easiest way: mix 200 g of powdered sugar with 2-3 tbsp. l of warm milk. The glaze is matte and does not stick to the hands. You can also make disposable forms for cakes with your own hands, if you do not have suitable moulds for baking. What's your favorite Easter cake recipe? We wish you a bright Easter and delicious cakes!