dessert traditional recipe

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Another variation on the king’s cake, brings back memories as I used to love this one when I was a kid.

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Ingredients

  • 280 g Flour (pastry flour or extra fine is better)
  • 10 g Fresh Yeast
  • 80 ml Milk (luke warm)
  • 2 Egg
  • 50 g Sugar
  • 1 bag of Vanilla Sugar
  • 1 pinch of Salt
  • 70 g of butter (room temperature)
  • Pearl Sugar
  • fève

Method

  1. Get the butter out, cut in small dice and leave it to get to room temperature
  2. Crumble of the yeast into the luke warm milk, mix well then set aside for 10 minutes
  3. In the mixer bowl, add the flour, milk with the yeast, the sugar, vanilla sugar, the pinch of salt
  4. Mix well until the dough is flexible and soft.
  5. Add the soft butter and mix well
  6. Set aside in a bowl covered with a kitchen towel for 1 hour at room temperature
  7. Set aside in the refrigerator for a couple of hours
  8. Take the dough out, knead the down to make it go down, make a ball then using your finger make a hole in the middle in the to make a ring
  9. Cover again and let it rise for a couple of hours at room temperature
  10. Pre-heat the oven at 180 C/350 F
  11. Prepare your egg wash, brush/paint the galette, wait 5 minutes, brushpaint again with the egg wash, now sprinkle the pearl sugar on top of it
  12. Place in the oven, cook for about 25 minutes

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Traditional
Serve6 to 8
Preparation Time5 hours
Cooking Time25 mn
Temperature
AuthorsPascal Crausaz
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