Cake of kings recipe | Good Food
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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