A lightly spiced, fluffy Christmas cake filled with fruit and nuts. A speciality in Portugal, Bolo Rei or Portuguese Kings Cake, is super easy to bake at home, so get ready to make your Kings Cake “crown” this holiday season!
Ingredients
- 3 cups plain flour / all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp dried yeast (around 14g dried yeast)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 75 g butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg whisked – for basting
- Pinch salt
- lemon zest from 1 lemon
- 100 ml warm milk
- 100 ml port wine or brandy or sweet sherry
- 80 g candied or dried fruit chopped for filling, sultanas okay
- 50 g mixed nuts unsalted and chopped (walnuts, almonds, pine nuts)
Garnish
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- 50 g dried fruit slices
- 30 g mixed nuts unsalted and halved (walnuts, almonds, pine nuts)
- Sprinkle icing sugar / powdered sugar
- 1 tsp strawberry jam (jelly)
- 2 tsp hot water
A lightly spiced, fluffy Christmas cake filled with fruit and nuts. A speciality in Portugal, Bolo Rei or Portuguese Kings Cake, is super easy to bake at home, so get ready to make your Kings Cake “crown” this holiday season!
Ingredients
- 3 cups plain flour / all purpose flour
- 2 tbsp dried yeast (around 14g dried yeast)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 75 g butter softened
- 2 eggs
- 1 egg whisked – for basting
- Pinch salt
- lemon zest from 1 lemon
- 100 ml warm milk
- 100 ml port wine or brandy or sweet sherry
- 80 g candied or dried fruit chopped for filling, sultanas okay
- 50 g mixed nuts unsalted and chopped (walnuts, almonds, pine nuts)
Garnish
-
- 50 g dried fruit slices
- 30 g mixed nuts unsalted and halved (walnuts, almonds, pine nuts)
- Sprinkle icing sugar / powdered sugar
- 1 tsp strawberry jam (jelly)
- 2 tsp hot water
