Cake of kings recipe | Good Food

Cake of kings recipe | Good Food

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Versions of this cake – a fruity Brioche-like bread – are eaten all over Europe on Twelfth Night. Buried inside is a trinket, and whoever finds it, is king for

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Ingredients

  • 85g citrus candied peel chopped
  • 100g raisin
  • 50g pine nut
  • 50g glacé cherry
  • 5 tbsp sherry or brandy
  • 500g plain flour
  • 3 tsp easy-blend yeast
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 150ml milk
  • 100g softened butter
  • 100g caster sugar
  • 2 lemons grated zest
  • 1 orange grated zest
  • 4 eggs beaten
  • 1 trinket or dried bean (in greaseproof paper)
  • 195g candied fruits
  • 6 sugar lumps
  • 1 egg yolk beaten with 1 tbsp water
  • apricot jam to glaze

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