The bread machine, which has in its function the mode of baking not only bread, but also muffins, will help to prepare amazing sweet pastries. Please note - in a bread maker this mode may be called "home baking" or "baking muffins". And if there is a delayed start function, then, having made some preparations in the evening, you can get a fresh, warm cupcake for morning coffee.
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You will need
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- 200g butter
- 4 eggs
- 150 g sugar and 50 g icing sugar
- 300g wheat flour
- salt
- 1 lemon
- 1 tsp baking powder for dough
- 1 tbsp cognac
- 100g raisins
- 100g candied fruit
- 100g nuts
- vanilla.
Instruction manual
1
Prepare the butter in advance. It must be softened. To do this, take it out of the refrigerator for several hours and keep it at room temperature. You can periodically break it into small parts. Or lightly heat a piece of oil in the microwave and mash it. But be careful - when heating the oil it is very easy to miss the moment when it spreads. And you do not need melted butter.
2
Wash and dry the lemon thoroughly and prepare the zest. The easiest way is to rub the peel on a fine grater. However, this must be done very carefully so as not to touch the white layer. He will give your cake a bitterness. Carefully removed, the lemon peel gives only a subtle aroma of lemon. In order to cut only the yellow peel from the lemon, you must first scald it. Removed zest must be dried and ground in a coffee grinder or culinary mortar.
3
Another preparatory moment will be the soaking of candied fruits. Rinse thoroughly in hot water, put in a bowl, add the right amount of candied fruits to it and pour them with boiling water. In this form, berries and fruits need to stand for about five minutes. Drain, pour candied fruits and raisins with cold boiled water.
4
Put softened butter and granulated sugar in the mixer bowl. Beat mixture into a homogeneous mass. Beat eggs in it, a little salt - about half a teaspoon or a little less, add vanilla and mix again.
5
Pour the resulting mass into the capacity of your bread maker, pour the zest there and squeeze the juice from the remaining lemon. Pour the previously sifted flour on top. The sifting process will enrich the flour with oxygen and the baking will be more magnificent. Add baking powder.
6
Drain the candied fruit and raisins and also pour them into the bread machine. Put chopped nuts.
Set a program suitable for baking ("sweet bread" or "homemade cake") and, if desired, the start time of baking.
After the bread maker signals that the cake is ready, put it on a dish and sprinkle with powdered sugar.