Yeast-free Easter cake

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr

1. STEP 1

   

   How to make yeast-free cake? Prepare your food. You may need different amounts of flour, you will look at the dough. Kefir is suitable for any fat content, it is better if it is very sour, so if possible, keep it for a day at room temperature. Choose high-quality, natural butter, without vegetable additives or dyes. Raisins - seedless.

2. STEP 2

   

   First of all, pour kefir into a deep bowl and add soda to it. Stir and let sit on the counter while you prepare other foods. During this time, a reaction will occur between the soda and the acid, resulting in the release of carbon dioxide, which will raise the dough. Therefore, there is no need to extinguish the soda in this recipe. If you took kefir out of the refrigerator, then warm it up a little, then the reaction will go faster and more actively.

3. STEP 3

   

   Wash the lemon well, preferably with a brush and baking soda, to remove the waxy coating that is used to treat fruit to prevent spoilage. Grate the zest (the upper yellow part of the skin) using a fine grater. Try not to touch the white part that goes under the yellow, it is bitter.

4. STEP 4

   

   Melt the butter in any convenient way. Add sugar, lemon zest and vanilla to warm butter. I also added a pinch of salt - it will act as a flavor enhancer. The amount of sugar can be reduced depending on your taste. Mix the oil with the additives. Sugar will quickly dissolve in warm butter. If the sugar does not dissolve completely, it will caramelize during baking and the crumb will turn brown.

5. STEP 5

   

   Pour the butter-sugar mixture into kefir, stir well with a whisk.

6. STEP 6

   

   Take another deep bowl and sift the flour into it. By doing this you will not only remove possible debris, but also saturate the flour with oxygen, which will make the cakes more fluffy and airy. I advise you to set aside some of the sifted flour and add it as needed.

7. STEP 7

   

   Rinse the raisins well in warm water, then dry with paper towels. Roll it in a tablespoon of flour - then it will be evenly distributed throughout the dough and will not sink to the bottom during baking. Add the raisins to the bowl with the flour and stir.

8. STEP 8

   

   Combine the liquid and dry parts, pouring the kefir and additives into the flour. Mix the dough with a spoon. There is no need to knead it for a long time, just mix the products. Next, look at the dough, it should not turn out too liquid and flow off the spoon. The consistency will be viscous and quite thick. Add more flour if necessary.

9. STEP 9

   

   Take baking dishes. Here I would advise you to take small molds - then the cakes will bake faster. Divide the dough into the molds, filling them 2/3 full, maybe even a little less, the dough will rise well. I had two molds - one 10 * 9 cm (10 bottom diameter) and 5.5 * 6 cm. 4 small Easter cakes would come out.

10. STEP 10

    

    Bake the cakes in an oven preheated to 180°C for 30 minutes to 1 hour. Baking time will depend on the features of your oven and the size of the pans. The small cake was ready in 30 minutes, I took it out. And the big one baked for an hour. The top was starting to brown too much so I covered it with foil. Check readiness with a wooden skewer - it should come out dry.

11. STEP 11

    

    Remove the finished cakes from the oven and cool completely. You can cover the top with glaze or simply sprinkle with powdered sugar. Serve the cake to the table. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

Victoria

18.12.2023

4.9

Good recipe, thanks. I also know this recipe for yeast-free Easter cake.

Elena Pankina

18.12.2023

4.5

The wonderful holiday of Easter is coming soon and every year I bake something new. I saw a recipe for yeast-free Easter cake on the website, which interested me due to its ease of preparation, without any hassles. I decided to try it in advance so that if I liked it, I could bake it for the holiday. I heated the kefir, added soda and stirred. I peeled the zest from the lemon using a grater. I washed the raisins, poured boiling water over them, drained the water, dried them and mixed them with flour. Melt the butter and add sugar, vanillin, lemon zest and mix thoroughly. Mixed kefir and oil mixtures. Gradually added flour, adding raisins at the end. As the author advised, I did not knead the dough for a long time. I put the dough in molds and baked small Easter cakes for 35 minutes. And the cake takes more than 45 minutes. Sprinkle the finished cakes with powdered sugar. The Easter cakes turned out excellent: tender dough with the aroma and taste of lemon! I will definitely make it for the holiday because I really liked it! Thank you very much katushafin for the wonderful recipe and I recommend you try it 😊

Katy Kobi

18.12.2023

4.9

I really liked the cake. I don't like raisin bread type cakes. And I don’t like messing with yeast. This recipe is very simple, easy for beginners and tastes like a cupcake. Thank you very much ☺️! Easter!

Aksinya

18.12.2023

5

This is my favorite Easter recipe, since I’m not very good with yeast dough. The only thing I do is add nuts and sprinkle candied fruits and grated chocolate on top. Thanks for the recipe, I added it to my cookbook

Aselek

18.12.2023

4.6

I used to be fiddling with Easter cakes all day until I found this recipe, try it, they make great Easter cakes

Shura

18.12.2023

4.6

Looks amazing! The dough rose so well that I didn’t immediately understand why, and then I read it again and saw how the author carefully did everything, separately whipping all the components, maintaining the technology and selecting the products, I really liked the Easter cake, such a necessary recipe and quick same thing! Many will definitely use it, because Red Hill is ahead!

Irisha

18.12.2023

4.7

It turned out to be a very beautiful Easter cake, so elegant! It probably tastes more like a cupcake