“PASHA” – the Easter cake

Hello, everyone!
Today I want to share with you a special recipe. It is a recipe of Easter cake. We prepare it only for Easter holiday. It is very tasty and has a “holiday view”.

Special condition: you must be in a good mood; you must have only good and positive thoughts; you mustn’t speak with someone during baking this cake. My grannies and aunts always read a prayer before cooking this cake.

Ingredients:

Dough:

½ liter of milk
1 kilo of flour
1 ½ cup of sugar
10 egg’s yolks
3 tblsp. of sour cream
200 g of butter
50 g of yeast
3 tblsp. of mayo
1 tblsp. of vanilla sugar
You may add raisins, dried apricots, candied fruits in quantity you like. You may use only raisins or dried apricots.

Glaze:

2 egg’s white
1 cups of sugar
1 tsp. of lemon juice

It cooks like yeast dough.
First of all, you must prepare the “opera” (Google translates it like “voucher”). You need to mix ½ cup of flour, ½ liter of milk, 2 tblsp. of sugar, 50 g of yeast. Mix all the ingredients well in a bowl and cover the bowl with a towel. Put it in a warm place for a half of hour.
Then add all the ingredients for your dough, except raisins, dried apricots, candied. Mix all well. Add some flour in a mixture of raisins, dried apricots and candied fruit. Then mix this mixture with dough. Then knead the dough well.
Last year I added 1 tsp. of orange peel. It took my dough a yummy smell and delicious taste.
Finally, put dough in the baking dishes (fill them up to half of the baking dish, because dough will grow) and leave them for 20 minutes.
Bake the cake for 30-40 minutes, depending of your baking dish. If you have a big size baking dish, it takes you about 1 hour.
After baking cool down you Easter cakes.
For glaze you need to mix all ingredients and whisk by mixer well.
Cover your Easter cakes with glaze and confectionery.
All are ready for Easter holiday.