Know About Your Pandoro Cake With Its Easy Preparation Recipe


For how long you will keep on ordering the same kind of cakes with synthetically emulsified flavors? In most of our local bakeries, almost similar kinds of cakes are available with different attractive colors. If you want to know about the real variations in cakes, try to explore Italian cuisine. Italians are undoubtedly the best bakers in the world. They know hundreds of baking techniques for both sweet and savory food products. The cake is a centuries-old traditional sweet dish in Italy meant for special occasions like Christmas, Easter, birthdays and other celebrations. Do you know Italians consider Pandoro as a symbolism of Christmas? It is a star-shaped cake topped with white powder sugar without any frosting or other embellishment work. Initially, in the 17th and 18th centuries, it was considered a premium dish for rich people only. Some historians also claim its history much earlier in the first century under the Roman empire. 

The ingredients of Pandoro cake are simple but its preparation requires highly proficient skills. Egg, butter, honey, sugar and flour are the basic ingredients of a typical Pandoro cake. 

Understanding Italian Pandoro cake in detail

Just like all other types of cakes, Pandoro also has a distinctive identity. As per the currently available facts, it originated in Verona. The cake is brownish from outside and bright yellow from inside. You can prepare it in any shape of birth star shape is a traditional look dusted with powdered sugar. During the Christmas month, you can see the Italian bakery shops piled with different shapes and sizes of Pandoro cakes. Panettone and Pandoro are the two basic traditional requirements of every Italian home on Christmas eve. The secret behind its awesome flavor and texture is a long preparation technique that requires patience and some baking skills. Here we will tell you how to make a Pandoro cake at home. 

Recipe to prepare Pandoro cake

Ingredients


* Flour 3 cups
* Cream ½ cup
* Egg yolks 5
* Whole egg 1
* Unsalted butter 8 ounces
* Active bakery yeast 20 gram
* Confectioners sugar ⅓ cup
* Vanilla extract 1 tablespoon
* Sugar 120 gram
* Lemon zest 1 teaspoon

Apart from these ingredients, keep some dry flour and butter for work surface and mold. Let’s understand the preparation technique of Pandoro Italian cake in detail. 


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Directions to prepare

  1. Take a large bowl, combine egg yolk, ⅓ rd cup of flour, 1 tablespoon of sugar yeast and some water to prepare a soft loaf. Let it rest in a warm place for the next 2 hours.

  2. Sift some flour on your work surface, pour half portion of the remaining sugar, 3 egg yolks and 3 tablespoons of butter. Knead all these ingredients thoroughly with 3 tablespoons of butter. 

  3. Knead it to give a ball shape and allow it to rise for 2 hours in a warm place. 

  4. After waiting for 2 hours, combine the remaining ingredients including egg yolk, flour and sugar. Once you knead it properly, sprinkle flour in a bowl and allow it to sit for the next two hours. 

  5. Once it is properly emulsified, put the dough on your work surface, add lemon zest, vanilla and cream. Knead the mixture again properly to mix these flavoring agents. 

  6. Spread your dough with a rolling pin on the work surface and fold it with the remaining butter. Allow the dough to rest for 30 minutes with butter and repeat the process of rolling again. 

  7. Take your star-shaped mold and fill it with the dough. Again allow the dough to rest for 20 minutes in the mold until it rises. 

  8.  Preheat your oven at 180 degrees Celsius and bake the dough for the next 30 minutes. 

  9. After taking out, unmold the cake immediately and sit on a cooling rack. Sprinkle powdered sugar over it and serve. 

This is the complete recipe you can follow rather than buying Pandoro cake online. If you don’t have enough time to spend on baking, search for a multi-brand store of native Italian food products where authentic Pandoro cakes are available. 

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