Rose cake: the recipe for a soft dessert for Mother’s Day

Ingredients:

  • For the dough:
    300 g of Manitoba flour
    200 g of 00 flour
    250ml of milk
    10 g of fresh brewer’s yeast
    50 g of sugar
    50 g of melted butter
    1 egg
    Grated zest of a lemon
  • For the filling:
    60 g of soft butter
    Caster sugar to taste
    Powdered sugar for dusting

Preparation:

  1. Dissolve the brewer’s yeast and a teaspoon of sugar in the warm milk.
  2. In a bowl combine the flours, sugar and the mixture of milk and yeast prepared earlier.
  3. Also add the melted butter, egg and lemon zest.
  4. Knead for about five minutes, then let it rise for 2 and a half hours.
  5. Divide the dough in half and roll it out with a rolling pin until you get a sheet of about half a cm thick.
  6. Brush with butter and sprinkle with caster sugar.
  7. Repeat with the other half of the dough, then cut into strips and roll them up.
  8. Comes upright in a buttered cake tin.
  9. Let it rise again for an hour.
  10. Brush with butter.
  11. Bake in the oven at 170° for 35 minutes.
  12. Cool completely then decorate with powdered sugar.

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