Swiss King Cake Recipe
This recipe is featured in What is a King Cake?
This recipe for a homemade Swiss King Cake is not difficult to make at home.
Ingredients
- 500 grams (4 cups) flour*
- 25 grams (2 tablespoons) sugar
- 5 grams (1 teaspoon) salt
- 30 grams (3 tablespoons) fresh yeast
- 250-280 milliliters (1 - 1 1/5 cups) warm milk
- 80 grams (1/3 cup) melted butter
- 1 egg yolk
- 1 plastic King doll
- Coarse sugar or almond flakes
- Paper crown
*I use a special flour for Swiss Zopf, available in Switzerland.
Preparation
- In a small bowl, crumble the yeast into some of the warm milk and allow it to sit and bubble for a few minutes. In a large mixing bowl, mix the flour with the sugar and salt. Add the yeast mixture, remaining milk, and melted butter. Knead well to make a soft dough. Cover with a kitchen towel and allow to rest for 2 hours.
2. Divide the dough into 8 pieces of equal size. Roll 6 of them into balls and hide a nut or plastic king figurine in one. Roll the remaining two pieces together into one large ball. Put the big ball into the middle of a cake dish and arrange the 6 smaller balls around it. Cover and let rest for 30 minutes. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 200°C (390°F).
3. Brush with beaten egg-yolk and sprinkle with coarse sugar or almond flakes. Bake in the oven until risen and golden, 20-25 minutes.
Wilma Kleger
Wilma grew up in Switzerland, born to a Swiss father and an Italian mother. She married a Swiss and after living for one year in England they moved, 30 years ago, to Hong Kong. She has two grownup children, a son and a daughter. She is a craft teacher by profession, but soon cooking and baking took over. She has a food-blog, Pane-Bistecca.com, and gives cooking classes in Swiss and Italian cuisine in Hong Kong and the Philippines, where she is planning to move.
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