Orange and poppy seed Three Kings' cake

Orange and poppy seed Three Kings' cake

Total: 2 hr 30 min. | Active: 30 min.
vegetarian

A fresh homemade Three Kings' cake tastes divine! Even if you don't end up with the bun containing the king on the 6th of January. Try this sweet yeast bread with sugar crystals – it's royally good!

Sebastian from the FOOBY Team

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Ingredients

for 1 cake

Yeast dough
500 g white flour
1 ½ tsp salt
4 tbsp sugar
2 tbsp poppy seeds
½ cube yeast (approx. 20 g), crumbled
3 dl milk
organic orange, grated zest and the juice
80 g butter, cold, cut into pieces
Shape
4 tbsp poppy seeds
almond
egg, beaten

How it's done

Yeast dough

Mix the flour, salt, sugar, poppy seeds and yeast in a bowl. Add the milk, orange zest and juice (approx. 50 ml), knead into a dough for approx. 5 mins. using the dough hook on a food processor, gradually add the butter, knead for approx. 5 mins. to form a soft, smooth dough. Cover and leave to prove at room temperature for approx. 1½ hrs. until doubled in size.

Shape

Empty the poppy seeds into a deep dish. Weigh out 8 portions of dough (approx. 70 g each), shape into balls, inserting the almond (king) into one of the balls. Shape the remainder of the dough into a large ball, place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, toss the small balls in the poppy seeds, arrange them evenly around the large one, cover and leave to rise again for approx. 30 mins. Brush the middle balls with egg.

Bake

Approx. 30 mins. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180 °C. Remove from the oven, allow to cool slightly, slide the Three Kings' cake onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.

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