Golden Cake from Verona: Pandoro di Verona

Golden Cake from Verona: Pandoro di Verona
Golden Cake from Verona: Pandoro di Verona might be a good recipe to expand your dessert recipe box. This recipe covers 6% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. One portion of this dish contains approximately 5g of protein, 4g of fat, and a total of 245 calories. This recipe serves 20. If you have active yeast, lemon zest, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes approximately 1 hour and 10 minutes. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.

Instructions

1
In a small bowl, combine the water, yeast, sugar, 1 egg yolk, and 1/2 cup flour, and blend well. Cover with a damp towel and let rise in a warm place for 2 hours, or until doubled in bulk.
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On a clean work surface, mound 3 of the remaining cups of flour and make a well in the center. In a medium bowl, beat together 4 of the egg yolks, 1/2-cup sugar, the butter and 1/2 cup water.
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Add the yeast combination from above and mix well.
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Pour the entire mixture into the flour well and gradually mix the flour into the liquids to form a sticky dough. Knead the dough for 5 to 10 minutes, or use the dough hook attachment on an electric mixer. The dough should remain somewhat tacky, unlike bread dough.
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Grease or oil a large bowl and add the dough, turning to coat all sides. Cover with plastic wrap and let rise in a warm place for 2 hours.
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Punch down the dough and add the remaining flour, egg yolks, 1/2 cup water, egg, sugar and lemon zest and knead until blended, then knead for an additional 10 minutes on a floured work surface.
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7
Place in a greased or buttered bowl and cover with plastic wrap, then let rise for an additional 2 hours.
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8
Butter and flour two pandoro molds or coffee cans. Punch the dough down, divide it in 2, and roll each piece into a ball.
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Place one ball in each of the molds, and let rise for 1 1/2 hours.
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Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.
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Bake the pandoro for 35 minutes, until a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Let rest for 10 minutes, then unmold and let cool completely.
13
In a small bowl, combine the confectioners' sugar and water and stir well.
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14
Drizzle the pandoro with the mixture and serve in wedges.
DifficultyExpert
Ready In1 h, 10 m.
Servings20
Health Score1
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