Cupcake-style kulich for Easter
Description
Homemade baked goods for tea. You can add spices, candied peel, dried fruit, and nuts to the dough to suit your taste. If you leave alcohol out of the dough, you can replace it with orange juice. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients for Easter cupcakes. Take the butter out of the refrigerator ahead of time. Dice the candied fruit and pour amaretto over it. Chop the chocolate with a knife.
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Step 2
Sift the flour through a fine sieve.
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Step 3
If using whole cardamom seeds, grind them in a mortar with a pinch of salt.
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Step 4
Add spices, salt, vanillin, and baking powder to the flour.
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Step 5
Mix the dry mixture with a whisk and sift it through a sieve once more. If using dried zest, add it at this stage to the dry ingredients.
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Step 6
In a separate bowl, combine the sugar and soft butter.
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Step 7
Using a mixer, beat the sugar with the butter until the mixture is fluffy and the sugar has dissolved.
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Step 8
While continuing to beat, add the eggs one at a time. Add each next egg only after the previous one has been fully incorporated.
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Step 9
Add the prepared dry mixture to the liquid ingredients. Knead the dough.
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Step 10
Fold the chopped chocolate and candied fruit pieces into the prepared dough together with whatever amaretto is left.
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Step 11
Fold thoroughly into the dough so that the candied peel and chocolate are evenly distributed throughout the dough.
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Step 12
Prepare your baking tins. Fill each one three quarters full. This amount of batter makes five small cupcakes, weighing 150–170 g each.
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Step 13
Bake the Easter cupcakes in an oven preheated to 170 degrees for 40–45 minutes. Let the cupcakes cool.
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Step 14
Decorate the cupcakes however you like. You can coat them with traditional Easter sugar glaze or meringue.
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Step 15
The cakes have a moist, fine-textured crumb with a pleasant spicy aroma. The bake stays fresh for a long time, keeps well, and does not go stale. Candied peel and chocolate add even more flavour to this festive bake.
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Step 16
Wishing you a wonderful Holy Easter!