easy to prepare sponge cake recipe

One of the best recipes this year is the reappearance of Christmas sweet bread or panettone, a cake spongy dish sprinkled with candied fruit that has become one of the gastronomic symbols of Christmas in Spain, Italy and other countries under the cultural and culinary influence of these two Mediterranean nations. In recent decades, the commercialization of sweet breadeither panettonehas caused the custom of preparing it to be lost at home, but it is a practice that can be easily resumed, since all the ingredients and utensils are accessible and can be found in any Spanish kitchen.

He Christmas sweet bread As we see, it has a flavor that will recall the Panettone in the Spanish version, a classic of traditional pastry that can give us more than one joy during these days.

It is also true that in Spain sweet bread is a recent tradition, dating from the second half of the last century, and that it first began in an industrial form, before giving way to homemade bread. He sweet bread either panettone is a Genoese originating from Milan in the 14th century, although its antecedents can be traced back to ancient Rome. He could have arrived in Spain thanks to the presence of Latin American migrantsin turn influenced by Italians who emigrated and settled in America.

Ingredients:

How to prepare Christmas sweet bread:

1. Soak candied fruits and the raisins in lukewarm water; Crush the nuts and set aside.
2. Beat eggs in a bowl mix with sugaruntil foamy.
3. Heat 25 ml of milkand dissolve the yeast in it.
4. Melt the butter in a small saucepan and add to bowl without stopping beatingalso add the flour, the milk with the yeast and the rest of the milkuntil a mixture forms uniform.
5. Add the glass of anise and nuts; Drain the candied fruits and raisins and also add them to the mixture and keep stirring until you obtain a spongy dough.
6. go to rest 10 minutes.
7. Place the dough in a mold previously greased and floured, or on parchment paper for sweet bread, and bake at 180ºC for 1 hour.
8. Pierce the center with a clean skewer to see if it is cooked. The skewer should come out dry.
9. let cool before serving.

Nutritional information: 3110 kcal in total

Type of cuisine: Mediterranean

Type of food: Christmas

Prepare this delicious sweet Christmas bread and make it a family tradition, involving your children in the preparation. You can adapt the bread to the family’s tastes, adding more or less candied fruit and incorporating other ingredients, such as chocolate chips.