Kind of kings super easy: simple recipe and homemade
It is not long before the day of Kings arrives and in many homes we have our ingredients ready to start making the traditional Roscón de Reyes. We can say that with this traditional sweet culminate the Christmas holidays, taste the Roscón de Reyes accompanied by the whole family is an intimate and cozy moment.
The Roscón is a bun in the form of a crown that on the outside is decorated with candied fruits, and its interior can be filled with different flavors of fillings such as cream, chocolate, custard or also make it without filling. Inside the roscón hides a small figurine and a bean or bean.
Once the roscón is broken, the person who touches the figurine will be placed the crown of Rey Mago and the one who leaves the bean or the bean, according to tradition, he will have to pay for the roscón.
The Roscón de Reyes is usually served with a cup of hot chocolate for breakfast on the morning of the Three Kings Day. It is also usually served as a dessert that day or for a snack.
With the ingredients that we provide in this recipe we will have a very large roscón, if you wanted it to be smaller, put only half of the ingredients. Our roscón has been decorated with candied oranges but you can decorate them with the candied or candied fruits that you prefer or, that you like the most. It is a recipe to make the classic Roscón, without filling.
How to make a roscón de Reyes easy and simple
Ingredients:
- One kilo of simple wheat flour.
- 30 grams of fresh baking yeast.
- Half a liter of warm milk.
- 5 grams of coarse salt.
- 6 rather large eggs.
- 4 tablespoons of orange blossom water.
- The skin of a grated orange.
- The grated skin of a lemon.
- 250 grams of sugar.
- 300 grams of butter.
Ingredients for decoration:
- Candied orange.
- Red candied cherries.
- A beaten egg (to brush and shine)
- 250 gr. of rolled almonds.
- Sugar glas or luster to decorate.
- A bean or bean.
- A surprise, (a small figurine).
- A crown of gilded cardboard.
preparation:
In a bowl or glass bowl we put the flour, the yeast, the orange blossom water, the lemon zest and the orange.
Mix everything well and add the 6 eggs previously beaten, salt, sugar, and melted butter, mix well all the ingredients and knead.
When the dough has a compact texture, without lumps, we form a ball.
Then moisten a cloth with water to wrap the ball of dough.
We reserve the dough ball in the fridge for five hours to make it mild.
After the time we removed the dough that should be removed from the refrigerator.
We are extending the dough and giving the shape to the roscón.
In the hollow of the rosco, in the center, we put a cup or a bowl so that in the end it is the traditional way of roscón.
We carefully introduce the bean or bean and the small figurine into the mass of the roscón.
Now we will paint the roscón with a beaten egg and with a brush, we will brush the whole roscón.
Once brushed, we put the ornaments, the candied oranges, the red cherries and the rolled almonds.
We preheat the oven to a temperature of 220º C, during 15 minutes.
Once the oven has been preheated, introduce the roscón and cook it at a temperature of 120ºC and for 40 minutes.
Carefully remove the roscón from the oven and let it cool.
A little before taking it to the table we sprinkle it with icing sugar.
And how could it be less, we encourage you to discover our chocolate recipe
We have already prepared our Roscón de Reyes, now we just need to taste it in company and a good hot chocolate cup, Do you dare to elaborate ?.
From NatureVia we wish everyone to have and spend a Merry Christmas. ThemesChristmas Christmas Recipes
