Leruth's kings cake
1 Servings
Ingredients
| Quantity | Ingredient | |
|---|---|---|
| 2½ | pack | Dry yeast; (2 1/2 oz) |
| ½ | pounds | Softened butter |
| 3 | teaspoons | Sugar |
| ½ | cup | Milk; scalded |
| ½ | cup | Southern Comfort |
| ½ | tablespoon | Salt |
| 3 | Extra large eggs | |
| 3 | pints | Flour |
| 1 | Lemon; grated rind only | |
| 2 | teaspoons | Pure Vanilla extract |
| 1 | Plastic baby or red kidney bean | |
| ¼ | cup | Water |
| 1 | Egg | |
| ¼ | cup | Boiling water |
| 1 | tablespoon | Corn Syrup |
| 2½ | cup | Powdered Sugar |
| 1½ | cup | Sugar; divided into 3 parts |
| ¾ | ounce | Southern Comfort |
| Food coloring: Green; gold, red & blue, (to make purple) | ||
Directions
Dissolve the yeast in ½ C. of warm (not hot) milk with 3 tsp. sugar in a large mixing bowl. Let rest 5 mins. Add butter, ½ C. Southern Comfort, eggs, flour, lemon rind, and vanilla and mix 10-12 minutes with electric mixer on low speed until blended. This is a straight dough procedure. Allow the dough to rest for 15 minutes. Refrigerate the dough for 4 hours.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Return the dough to room temperature. Divide the dough into 3 even pieces. Roll each section into strands of the same length and do a 3-way braid, bringing the ends together to form an oval.
>From the underside, insert the doll or bean. Allow the dough to proof in a warm place for 1 hour.
Mix together ¼ C water and 1 egg and brush the mixture on the dough. Bake on a greased pan 20-25 minutes. Cool on a rack.
To make icing, bring water and corn syrup to a boil, add the powdered sugar. Stir until all sugar is dissolved. Brush this on top of the cooled cake.
Divide ¾ oz. of Southern Comfort into 3 equal parts. Add one of each of the three food colors (green, gold, purple). Stir each into three separate ½ Cups of sugar. Stir until color is distributed well into the sugar.
Sprinkle this over the icing in alternating bands.
Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest V1 #499 by Lee Ann Hamm <lhamm@...> on Jan 10, 1998