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In your stand mixer combine butter and eggs, and mix with your paddle attachment on low-medium until ingredients combine (just a few minutes). Add your sugar, baking soda, salt and cream of tartar and continue mixing. The thought of baking panettone, the stunning Italian Christmas bread, can send even an experienced baker into a flour-filled panic. With its domed top, lengthy rise time and specific texture.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook panettone - italian christmas cake using 28 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Panettone - Italian Christmas Cake:
- Take Preferment
- Get 5 gm instant yeast
- Prepare 122 gm water
- Prepare 67 gm high protein flour (13.5% protein or higher)
- Prepare Starter ingredients
- Take 33 gm unsalted butter
- Prepare 22 gm caster sugar
- Prepare 1 large egg
- Make ready 100 gm bread flour
- Make ready Final dough
- Make ready 67 gm unsalted butter
- Get 67 gm caster sugar
- Take 1 large egg & 2 yolks (remove a tbsp of white),
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Get Zest of 1 orange & lemon
- Make ready 2 tsp honey (I used the leftover syrup from making candied orange)
- Make ready 204 gm bread flour, sieved
- Make ready 5 gm salt
- Take Dried Fruits
- Take 50 g dried cranberries
- Take 50 g dried apricot
- Get 50 g raisin
- Prepare 50 g candied orange
- Get 100 ml Caribbean Rum
- Get Other
- Make ready For 2 Corrogulated paper moulds size 112mm x 85mm
- Prepare 12 -inchmetal or wooden skewers
- Prepare Or you can use 8 ramenkins & mugs like I did
If you want something classic, try Italian Panettone Traditional Oven Baked Cake by Bell'Amore. The Panettone cake recipe is basically a sweet bread that is baked in a round pan, which gives it a lighter-than-air fluffy texture. There are also plenty variations of the classic recipe, some including a plain cake, chocolate or other candied fruits and usually served next to hot beverages or wine. Panettone is an Italian sweet bread loaf originally from Milan, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year.
Instructions to make Panettone - Italian Christmas Cake:
- Soak all dried fruits in rum overnight preferably. Strain excess rum before mixing into dough.
- Starter dough (Preferment): Mix the above and set aside until all bubbly. That's about 30 minutes or thereabout.
- In a mixing bowl, mix butter & sugar until smooth. Add egg & mix until combined. Pour the butter mixture into the Preferment & whisk until combined. Then add the sifted flour into this mixture and fold & whisk until evenly combined. Cover & stick in fridge for 7 to 12 hours. Best is over-night or whatever schedule suits you. It should be about triple in size. When ready to use, take it out & bring to room temperature. That's the first part!
- Using whisk attachment, beat butter & sugar until light & fluffy. Add egg, beat until combined. Add vanilla extract, honey & zest. Add starter dough & beat until incorporated. - Change to hook attachment - Add flour. Knead for 10 minutes using speed 2. Rest for 5 minutes.
- Knead for another 10 minutes, using speeds 2 & 3 until windowpane.
- Add soaked fruits. Knead for 5 minutes at speed 2, until combined.
- Place dough in a lightly oiled bowl. - Stretch & fold 3 times with 20 minutes interval. Set aside and let it proof until double in size.
- Lightly oil the counter top. Pour dough out & divide into 2 equal halves or 8 equal pieces if you use Ramenkins. Shape into a boule & drop into case. Oil your hands for easier handling of the dough.
- Let dough proof until just below the rim of the case. Cut a cross at the top & place a, small piece of cold butter in the middle. Or you can egg wash and sprinkle pearl sugar & almond flakes.
- Bake at 170C, bottom rack. Tent the top heat for 5 minutes. Then remove. Continue baking for another 30-35 minutes. Half way through baking, turn the bread 180 degrees.
- Remove from the oven and pierce 12-inch metal or wooden skewers all the way through the panettone (including the paper) 4 inches apart and 1 inch from the bottom so the skewers are parallel. Hang the panettone upside down over a large stockpot and cool completely before cutting. Transfer to a wire rack and let it cool completely. To store the panettone, wrap tightly in plastic wrap, then either place in a resealable plastic bag in the fridge.
- This recipe makes a beautiful, soft, supple dough that is much like a brioche. It’s stunning, and the flavor lives up to its looks. The bread is incredibly soft and sweet, and just loaded with flavor thanks to the vanilla bean, lemon zest, cranberries and candied orange peel.
There are also plenty variations of the classic recipe, some including a plain cake, chocolate or other candied fruits and usually served next to hot beverages or wine. Panettone is an Italian sweet bread loaf originally from Milan, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year. It is very popular in Europe around the holidays. Here are some important tips for you, when you decide to make homemade Panettone. Panettone is a Christmastime cake that hails from Milan.
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