Winter Spicy Christmas cake

Fragrant honey-spicy cake for a family tea party! Winter pastries are special, they are filled with aromas of spices, honey and citrus. Cranberries and red wine add an additional flavor to this pie. A piece of this pie with a cup of fragrant hot tea will warm you on a cold winter evening.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 10 % 4 g
Fats 13 % 5 g
Carbohydrates 78 % 31 g
183 kcal
GI: 16 / 0 / 84

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 40 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    In slightly warm milk (30oC), we drive an egg and gently mix with a whisk, without beating the mass. Then pour in the sugar and yeast and mix until they dissolve. Pour in the vegetable oil and mix again with a whisk. We begin to introduce flour sifted through a sieve with salt. Stirring the dough first with a wooden spoon, and then kneading it with your hands. The dough should be a little sticky. Cover the dough with a towel and put it in a warm place for 1 hour.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Apples are washed, dried and cut into small cubes. We put them in a saucepan. Sliced apples are lightly fried in butter. Then pour in the sugar and cinnamon, mix and continue to fry until the sugar begins to caramelize.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    On a very fine grater, rub the zest of the whole orange, squeeze the juice from the pulp using a manual juicer. Cranberries (250 gr.) are washed under water and transferred to a saucepan, add honey, zest and orange juice. Put the saucepan on the fire, mix all the ingredients and cook the sauce for 10 minutes. After that, we grind half of the sauce in a blender and put it back in a saucepan, cook the sauce for another 15 minutes. We transfer the hot sauce to the apples.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Add cherry jam to the same saucepan. It is desirable that the jam was with whole berries. Mix the contents of the saucepan. The filling for the pie is ready.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    During this time, the dough should have risen at least 2 times. Sprinkle a little flour and knead the dough so that excess carbon dioxide comes out.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cut off most of the dough, leaving a little dough to make a mesh on the pie. From a large part, we roll out a large circle and transfer it to a greased round baking dish with vegetable oil. We form the bottom and sides of the future pie.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Spread the filling and evenly distribute it throughout the pie, sprinkle the remaining cranberries on top (50 gr.).

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    From the remaining dough, roll out a small layer and cut it into narrow strips. We spread these stripes on the pie, creating a grid. Carefully wrap the sides of the pie. Lubricate the mesh and the side of the pie with beaten egg. Bake the pie in a preheated 180oC oven for 25-30 minutes.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Whole cow's milk - 68   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.5% fat content - 64   kcal/100g
  • Milk 3.2% fat content - 60   kcal/100g
  • Milk 1.5% fat content - 47   kcal/100g
  • Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140   kcal/100g
  • Milk 2.5% fat content - 54   kcal/100g
  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Apples - 47   kcal/100g
  • Dried apples - 210   kcal/100g
  • Canned apple mousse - 61   kcal/100g
  • Honey - 400   kcal/100g
  • Cinnamon - 247   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Lingonberry - 43   kcal/100g
  • Butter 82% - 734   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted amateur butter - 709   kcal/100g
  • Unsalted peasant butter - 661   kcal/100g
  • Peasant salted butter - 652   kcal/100g
  • Melted butter - 869   kcal/100g
  • Liqueur wines - 212   kcal/100g
  • Semi-dry wines - 78   kcal/100g
  • Dry wines - 64   kcal/100g
  • Red wine - 88   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Oranges - 36   kcal/100g
  • Apricot jam - 265   kcal/100g
  • Pear jam - 268   kcal/100g
  • Quince jam - 223   kcal/100g
  • Apple jam - 265   kcal/100g
  • Jam - 265   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chicken Egg - 80   kcal/100g
  • Dry yeast - 410   kcal/100g

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