King´s cake (en) – Tortell de Reis (ca) – Traditional catalan cake – with pastry cream and whipped cream

This recipe requires a bit of work but it deserves it! It is delicious! It is traditionally eaten on the king´s day (“Nit de reis” in catalan).

Ingredients

Dough of the cake

50gr milk
15gr fresh yeast
25gr sugar
big parts of zest of an orange
340gr bread flour (Depending on your eggs you might need less or more. Maybe start with 300gr and keep adding till your dough is not very sticky but only a bit)
3 eggs (I used M/L)
25gr sugar
25gr honey
6gr salt

Filling: Here the instructions: Pastry cream but I doubled the recipe for this cake

Decorations: powdered sugar and whipped cream

!!! Add the whipped cream when you serve each piece and not on top of the cale. You can add on top of the cake powdered sugar!

Steps

Warm the milk with the orange zest and let it infusionate for half an hour at least
Remove the orange zest, warm again the milk and dissolve the fresh yeast and the sugar in it
Leave it aside till it gets foamy – it should be in like 5 minutes
Add the butter, the salt, the honey, the remaining sugar and the eggs in your dough and mix well
Add half of the flour and mix and then keep adding
Knead it until you have a smooth and not sticky dough. It should be around 5 minutes
Cover your dough and let it double in size in a warm place (depending on the temperature here the times will differ but in around an hour should have your dough ready and risen)
Roll the dough in approximately 9x50cm
Leave 2 cm and spread the cream or whatever filling you choose along the dough like in the fotos
Roll the dough to create a “tube” and then connect the two edges to make a circle like in the fotos
Bake it in 180 degrees till it becomes golden like in the fotos
Let it cool down
Decorate however you wish * the traditional way is with candied fruits*