I know I’m late. I mean, the Epiphany was celebrated yesterday and I’m posting this today…But let’s be honest, 99% of you bought the cake yesterday and were not willing to make it yourselves.

I was like that a couple of years ago, it’s more convenient. But I love making food, and I want to bake more, because I’m not very good at it. And I think I won’t ever be good at it, because I never follow recipes.

For this recipe, I didn’t measure anything, and the result was more or less what I expected before I started. I keep surprising myself for good lately.

Just one little thing. I make cakes with almost no sugar, so I recommend adding more to your taste in case you like traditional desserts (with sugar, I mean)

Ingredients:

For the dough:

4 cups of flour

1 cup of warm milk

1 sachet of dry bread yeast (or fresh yeast if you can find it, makes everything better)

80 gr white sugar, though I would recommend 120 gr for a normal person 🙂

35 gr unsalted butter

2 eggs (1 for the dough, one for the wash

For the candied kumquats:

200 gr kumquats

1/2 cup water

1/4 cup white sugar

For the filling:

400 gr whipping cream

5 tbsp white shugar

To garnish:

White sugar

Lime peel (freshly grated)

Method:

The dough:

Pour the flour on a flat surface and make a well on the center.

Add the warm milk mixed with the yeast little by little until its a little bit wetter than a pizza dough (it sticks to your hands a bit)

Then, add the sugar, melted butter and the egg. Mix and knead for about 10 minutes.

Let it rest for 2 hours, until it doubles its size.

Take it out and shape it as an “O”. You can put a ramequin in the middle and make a sausage shape. Then make the ring shape surrounding the ramequin. Let it prove for another 30 minutes.

The candied kumquats:

Mix the water and the sugar and slice the kumquats. Add the fruit to the mixture and boil for 2 and a half hours.

Add the kumquats to the top of the ring and add the egg wash on top. Then bake until golden brown (check it’s done on the inside with a cake taster or a picktooth.

Let it cool and divide horizontally in order to fill it with the whipped cream. You can also add cocoa powder to the cream and make a chocolate filling. Add matcha and you get a nice green matcha filling.

Finally, sprinkle some granulated sugar on top and grated lime peel.

Have fun and keep fooding!