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Step by step: How to bake a traditional Easter lamb
To bake a traditional Easter lamb, you need a practical 3D baking pan
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Traditional Easter pastries are a festive eye-catcher on the coffee table and baking Easter lambs together with the family is fun. Here is a simple Easter lamb recipe to bake.
At Easter, the coffee table is often beautifully set and traditional delicacies such as Easter lambs are also served on the table. It is a small, airy cake in the shape of a sweet lamb. But not only serving the pastries is fun, but also baking and decorating them together with the family. Easter lambs are not only suitable for your own coffee table, but also as a small gift for friends and family. Read here what you need to bake a traditional Easter lamb and which recipe makes it easy.
Baking Easter lamb: recipe
The ingredients for a delicious Easter lamb are simple and probably available in every kitchen. However, you need a special one for the three-dimensional shape of the pastry Easter lamb baking dish. Fill the baking pan with dough and place it upside down in the oven. You can then easily loosen the clamps on the side of the mold and remove the finished 3D Easter lamb.
Ingredients for three Easter lambs (0.7-1 liter baking dish)
- 250 grams of butter
- 250 grams of sugar
- 1 pack of vanilla sugar
- 1 pinch of salt
- 5 eggs
- 375 grams of flour
- 2.5 teaspoons of baking powder
- 5 tablespoons milk
- powdered sugar
Beautiful decoration breathes life into the sweet pastries
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Step 1
Beat butter, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt in a bowl until they have a creamy consistency.
step 2
Add the eggs one at a time and stir them into the butter-sugar mixture for a minute at a time.
step 3
Mix the flour and baking powder and then stir the mixture alternately Quickly pour the milk into the butter mixture.
Step 4
Grease them Easter lamb baking dish and dust them with flour before filling them with the dough. The dough must bake in the pan in a preheated oven (fan oven around 160 degrees) for 45 minutes. Let the finished Easter lamb rest for about ten to 15 minutes and only then carefully remove it from the mold. It’s best to leave the pastry on one afterwards cake rack Allow to cool completely before decorating.
Step 5
The 3D baking pan does give the Easter lamb contours, but these can be beautifully worked out with suitable decorations. The quick and classic version is to dust the Easter lamb with powdered sugar or decorate it with chocolate icing. If you want to get creative, you could give the little lamb a coat made of icing and sprinkled coconut flakes or work with a cream cheese frosting. The latter is made up of cream cheese, butter and powdered sugar and can be made using a piping tip be applied to the pastry. This makes it easy to imitate the woolly fur of a lamb.
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