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🍰 Italian Christmas Cake

680 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 cube fresh yeast (42 g)
• 1 tbsp sugar
• 150 ml lukewarm milk
• 400 g flour
• 5 egg yolks
• 1 pinch salt
• 150 g soft butter
• butter (for the pan)
• flour (for the pan)
• 150 g dried fruits (e.g. raisins, dates, figs, citron, orange peel)
• 50 g chopped almond kernels
• powdered sugar (for dusting)

Instructions

1. 1. Crumble the yeast into a bowl.
2. 2. Stir the yeast with the sugar and a splash of milk until you have a smooth mixture.
3. 3. Let this mixture rest for ten minutes.
4. 4. Add the remaining milk, the flour, the egg yolks, the salt, and the butter to the yeast mixture.
5. 5. Knead everything into a smooth dough.
6. 6. Cover the dough.
7. 7. Let the dough rise in a warm place for about one hour.
8. 8. Cut a wide strip of aluminum foil.
9. 9. Wrap the aluminum foil around the outer edge of the springform pan to create a higher rim.
10. 10. Grease the pan and the foil thoroughly with fat.
11. 11. Dust the pan with flour.
12. 12. Dice the dried fruits into small pieces.
13. 13. Knead the diced fruits and the almonds into the dough.
14. 14. Fill the dough into the prepared pan.
15. 15. Cover the pan.
16. 16. Let the dough rise again for about thirty minutes.
17. 17. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celsius fan-forced.
18. 18. Place the pan on the lowest rack in the oven.
19. 19. Bake the cake for about forty-five minutes.
20. 20. Let the cake cool in the pan for about twenty minutes.
21. 21. Carefully release the cake from the pan.
22. 22. Place the cake on a wire rack.
23. 23. Let the cake cool completely.
24. 24. Dust the cake with powdered sugar before serving.

Nutrition per serving

• kcal: 680
• Protein: 12 g · Fett/Fat: 28 g · Carbs: 88 g