Croatian Easter Cake (“pinca�)

Total Time: 3 hrs 50 mins Preparation Time: 3 hrs 20 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 500 g flour (for baking bread)
• 7 g yeast (instant in package)
• 125 g butter
• 100 g sugar ()
• 20 g sugar (with vanilla flavor, or 2 packages)
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 egg yolks
• 150 ml milk
• 1 teaspoon orange zest (grated)
• 1 teaspoon lemon zest (grated)
• 1 teaspoon cointreau liqueur

Recipe

• 1 put into flour yeast package, sugar, salt, yolks, warm butter (about 35°c), and the same warm milk.
• 2 make dough out of it using hand first, and than hand mixer. at the very last add orange and lemon zest.
• 3 cover with cloth and put into warm place for about 90 minutes or until doubles in size.
• 4 take dough and put on board and knead dough ready for baking. make 4 balls and put them together (2x2). make cross on each ball with sharp knife.
• 5 put on warm place again and wait until doubles in size (about 45 minutes).
• 6 put dough into oven. bake 45 minutes on 180°c
• 7 after 25 minutes of baking put some scrambled raw eggs over dough and sprinkle crystal sugar over dough.