Croatian Easter Cake (“pinca”)
From nitko 10 years ago
- 180 min to make
- Serves 15
This is traditional Croatian Easter cake. We usually eat “pinca” on Easter morning. It is traditional in southern parts of Croatia, especially Dalmatia. You can vary amount of fruits in “pinca”, but this is the basic recipe.
Ingredients
- 500 g flour (for baking bread) shopping list
- 7 g yeast (instant in package) shopping list
- 125 g butter shopping list
- 100 g sugar (white) shopping list
- 20 g sugar (with vanilla flavor, or 2 packages) shopping list
- ½ teaspoon salt shopping list
- 4 yolks shopping list
- 150 ml milk shopping list
- 1 teaspoon grated orange zest shopping list
- 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest shopping list
- 1 teaspoon Cointreau liqueur shopping list
How to make it
- Put into flour yeast package, sugar, salt, yolks, warm butter (about 35°C), and the same warm milk. Make dough out of it using hand first, and than hand mixer.
- At the very last add orange and lemon zest. Cover with cloth and put into warm place for about 90 minutes or until doubles in size.
- Take dough and put on board and knead dough ready for baking.
- Make 4 balls and put them together (2x2).
- Make cross on each ball with sharp knife.
- Put on warm place again and wait until doubles in size (about 45 minutes).
- Put dough into oven. After 30 minutes of baking put some scrambled raw eggs over dough and sprinkle crystal white sugar over dough.
- Bake 45 minutes on 180°C.
three side pinca
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