Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, roscón de reyes (three kings cake). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake) is something which I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have roscón de reyes (three kings cake) using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake):
- Prepare 400 g flour
- Get 3 eggs
- Get 100 g butter
- Get 100 g sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/4 liter milk (250 ml)
- Make ready zest of 1 lemon
- Take dried mixed peel for decorating
- Make ready salt
- Make ready Small trinkets and a broad bean/fava bean
Whoever finds the bean, according to tradition, can expect to receive coal rather than presents from the Kings. One of my favorite parts of celebrating the holidays in Santander, Spain with my inlaws is the day we get the Roscón de Reyes. In Spain, epiphany is the main Christmas holiday. 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.
Steps to make Roscón de Reyes (Three Kings Cake):
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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. In Mexico, the day is a gift-giving holiday. Tradition states this bread be served, garnished with the "jewels" of fruit and nuts. The holiday, known as the Epiphany, marks the day the wise men arrived to see and bring gifts to the newborn baby Jesus.
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