Simple quick Easter Easter cake for beginners

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make a simple, quick Easter cake for beginners? Prepare ingredients for making Easter cakes. They must be at the same room temperature. This is an important condition for a successful dough - it will rise better during baking. Therefore, remove the eggs and butter from the refrigerator in advance so that they have time to warm up.

2. STEP 2

   

   Add sugar to soft butter. Beat the butter and sugar with a mixer until light and fluffy.

3. STEP 3

   

   Continuing to beat, add eggs one at a time. It will be more convenient to do this by first breaking them into separate dishes. Beat the mixture until the products are completely mixed.

4. STEP 4

   

   Wash the lemon very well under hot water. It is better to do this with soda to wash off the wax that may be used on the fruit. Remove the zest from the lemon - the top layer of peel - by grating it on a fine grater. Do not touch the white part of the lemon - it will taste bitter when baking.

5. STEP 5

   

   Add grated zest and a drop of vanillin to the butter mixture, literally on the tip of a knife. Vanillin is a chemical substance, you need very little of it, otherwise it will give the baked goods a bitter note. If you use vanilla sugar or natural vanilla, add more. Heat the milk until warm, but not hot. Pour milk into the dough. Stir with a spatula.

6. STEP 6

   

   Add the remaining dry ingredients - salt and baking powder - to the flour. Mix everything with a spoon.

7. STEP 7

   

   Start adding flour to the dough in portions, sifting it. Sifting aerates the flour, which makes baked goods softer and fluffier. After each portion of flour, stir the dough with a spatula.

8. STEP 8

   

   Add all the flour in this manner and then mix it well.

9. STEP 9

   

   Rinse raisins with hot water. Dry it by placing it on a paper towel or cloth napkin. Add a teaspoon of flour to the raisins and stir. Dredging in flour will help the raisins spread evenly throughout the dough.

10. STEP 10

    

    Add raisins to the dough, stir with a spatula until the raisins are evenly distributed.

11. STEP 11

    

    Take any Easter cake molds - paper, metal, silicone. Lubricate metal ones with oil. Spoon the batter into the molds, filling them 3/4 full.

12. STEP 12

    

    From this amount of dough I got three larger cakes and one very small one. This small one could be divided among the other three, the dough rises but not too much. Thus, this recipe is designed for three Easter cakes with a mold size of 9*10 cm. 9 is the diameter of the bottom.

13. STEP 13

    

    Bake the cakes in the oven, preheated to 160°C, top-bottom mode, for an hour or a little more. They should rise and brown. Mine took 1 hour and 15 minutes to bake. Remove the finished cakes from the oven and cool completely. Then carefully remove them from the molds. You don’t have to remove the paper ones, but I wanted to decorate the cakes with icing, and their tops did not rise much above the edges of the molds. So I took them off.

14. STEP 14

    

    The top of the cakes can be decorated with any glaze or simply sprinkled with powdered sugar. I made the simplest glaze - beat egg white and 150 grams of sugar. But it seemed to me that powdered sugar would be enough for such cakes.

15. STEP 15

    

    Decorate the top of the cakes with colorful sprinkles as desired.

Comments on the recipe

AlenaAnikina

06.09.2023

4.9

Thank you! Great recipe! Light and delicious! The Easter cake tasted like a cupcake. The dough is gorgeous, yeast-free, we are delighted.

Lana1503

06.09.2023

4.7

Great recipe, and most importantly it’s really quick to prepare! Today I pleased my family with Easter cake according to your recipe. Even my husband, who is not inclined to sweets, approved and ate it on both cheeks). Only I took one form and I got a big Easter cake. Thank you. I would like to share another recipe for Easter cake made from Alexandria dough. The recipe is simple, even novice cooks can handle it.

Anele

06.09.2023

4.6

Thanks for the good recipe. The Easter cakes turn out both beautiful and tasty, but, most importantly, they cook quickly. This Easter your recipe will come first.

Happy N.

06.09.2023

4.9

The simplicity of making Easter cakes according to this recipe and its originality are captivating. I’ll write back after Easter, but for now I’m putting the recipe in my piggy bank.

Irina

06.09.2023

4.8

Thanks a lot! Super tasty!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Icing made from condensed milk and milk powder.

Erika

06.09.2023

5

Thanks for the recipe! The Easter cakes turned out very tasty!

Lara

06.09.2023

4.9

Good afternoon I made Easter cakes according to your recipe, everyone really liked them, thank you for the recipe. I want to ask you, is it possible to add less butter, or do you need to strictly adhere to your recipe?