TOP 5 recipes for making Christmas roll at home. Cooking secrets. Video recipes.
On Christmas Eve, for the holiday, many bake delicious traditional pastries: pies, muffins, rolls, gingerbread cookies, cookies … Also, many housewives prefer Christmas rolls. Although for many, this type of homemade baking will seem new. But baking a roll for Christmas at home is pretty easy. The only thing that is important is to correctly and beautifully form the baked goods.
Features of cooking rolls for Christmas
- Use the highest grade flour for baking, then the roll will turn out to be tender and soft.
- To get a good kneading, the dough must be kneaded with your hands, and not with a combine. Then the roll will acquire softness and splendor. Although you can knead the dough in a bread maker. The device kneads well and saves time.
- Do not leave the kneaded dough to stand for too long, so that it does not "float".
- Twist the strands or braids of the dough tighter so that no voids form during baking.
- Grease the woven rolls with milk, egg yolk or butter so that they acquire a beautiful shiny golden color.
- Due to the fact that the dough for rolls is very rich, they remain fresh for a long time.
Kalach with chocolate
In many families of the country there is a tradition to visit on Christmas and New Year's holidays and give homemade rolls. This Christmas roll is perfect for delicious sweet gifts.
See also how to make Christmas candy.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 439 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 2 hours 45 minutes
Ingredients:
- Milk - 0.5 l
- Eggs - 6 pcs. in dough, 1 pc. for coating
- Salt - a pinch
- Dry yeast - 10 g
- Chocolates - 500 g
- Butter - 100 g
- Sour cream - 200 g
- Sugar - 300 g
- Vegetable oil - 50 g
- Margarine for baking - 50 g
- Poppy - 75 g
- Raisins - 150 g
- Vanillin - 1 g
- Flour - 1.5 kg
Cooking a roll with chocolate:
- For dough, heat the milk to 38 ° C and add sugar (1 tablespoon), salt, yeast and stir everything well to dissolve the yeast.
- Add flour (1 tbsp.) To the food and knead the dough to the consistency of pancakes.
- Place the dough in a warm place for 45 minutes without drafts.
- While the dough is coming up, prepare the rest of the ingredients. Combine butter with margarine and heat to melt. Then pour vegetable oil into the mixture.
- Separate the yolks from the proteins. Put the latter in the refrigerator, and grind the yolks with a mixer with the remaining sugar.
- Add sour cream to the yolks and mix the products.
- Gently add the sour cream mixture into the matched dough and mix the components.
- Add the butter mass, mix gently and leave the dough in a warm place while you work on the proteins, which beat with a mixer until steep peaks.
- Insert the protein mass into the dough and mix gently.
- Add vanilla, raisins and gradually the remaining sifted flour to the baking. Place the dough on a work surface and knead until elastic for 20 minutes.
- Shape the finished dough into a "kolobok" and leave in a warm place for 1, 5-2 hours to rise.
- Then mold the rolls by making two ribbons from a small piece of dough, between which put the candies and pinch the edges.
- Weave the resulting two "tubes" together, forming a circle, and place it on a baking sheet.
- Prove the prepared bun for 15-20 minutes.
- Brush the matching rolls with a beaten egg and sprinkle with poppy seeds on top. Send them to a heated oven up to 220 ° C for 30-40 minutes until browning.
Kalach with nut praline
A rosy, fragrant and sweet roll for Christmas with a piquant twist.the product is decorated on top with an incredible sprinkling - hazelnut praline.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 3 tbsp.
- Warm milk - 1 tbsp.
- Butter - 70 g
- Eggs - 1 pc.
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons in dough, 100 g for praline
- Dry small yeast - 1, 5 tsp
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Hazelnuts - 80 g
Cooking kalach with walnut praline:
- Place flour, milk, butter, eggs, sugar, yeast, salt in the bowl of the bread machine and turn on the Bun Dough or Home Baker mode. Depending on the program and settings, the machine will first knead the dough for 10-14 minutes, rest for 20-30 minutes, knead again for 10-14 minutes and “grow” it for one hour.
- Divide the ready-made dough into 8 parts for 4 rolls, roll them into bundles and twist them together. Connect the edges to form a ring and leave to proof in a warm place.
- After half an hour, the dough will increase. Then brush it with beaten egg and sprinkle with hazelnut praline.
- To prepare the praline, fry the hazelnuts in a clean, dry skillet. In another skillet, melt the sugar and wait until it turns brown. Add nuts to sugar, stir and bring to caramel color. Pour the mass on a baking sheet lined with parchment to cool the sugar completely. Smash the caramel with light strokes and grind it in a blender to a crumb consistency.
- For Christmas, send the kalachi to bake in a heated oven up to 200 ° C until they acquire an intense ruddy color.
Kalach with poppy seeds
Looking for a simple and delicious recipe for traditional holiday rolls? This recipe will help you get up to speed on how to make Christmas baked goods.
Ingredients:
- Milk - 2 tbsp.
- Flour - 1 kg
- Dry yeast - 2 tsp
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Sugar - 4 tablespoons
- Butter - 3 tablespoons
- Vegetable oil - 3 tablespoons
- Salt - a pinch
- Poppy - 100 g
- Honey - 100 g
- Milk for lubrication - 2 tbsp. L.
- Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
Cooking Christmas roll with poppy seeds:
- For dough, pour yeast and sugar (1 tsp) into warm milk. Stir and set aside to foam.
- Beat eggs, sugar and salt with a mixer until lightness, and send to the dough.
- Add softened butter with vegetable oil to the mixture and whisk everything.
- Add flour and knead a dough that is tender to the touch, but strong enough. Add vanilla sugar at the end of the batch.
- Leave the finished dough warm so that it doubles in size. Then knead it again and leave it to rise.
- Roll the finished dough into a layer and brush the entire surface with honey, then sprinkle with poppy seeds.
- Roll the dough into a roll and place in a roll shape on a baking sheet lined with parchment.
- Brush the rolls with a beaten egg and sprinkle generously with poppy seeds. Send them to a preheated oven up to 200 ° C for 30 minutes.
Kalach with raisins
The recipe for this roll is variable, because you can use not only raisins, but also dried apricots, nuts, prunes … The baked goods will turn out to be no less aromatic and tasty.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 4 tbsp.
- Milk - 1 tbsp.
- Eggs - 3 pcs.
- Dry yeast - 11 g
- Butter - 70 g
- Sour cream - 0.5 tbsp.
- Sugar - 2-3 tbsp;
- Poppy - 1-2 tablespoons
- Raisins - 50 g
- Salt - a pinch
Cooking roll with raisins:
- Heat the milk and dissolve the sugar and yeast in it until smooth. Add flour (2 tablespoons), stir and leave in a warm place for 20 minutes, so that the dough comes up and a frothy "cap" forms on the surface.
- Add flour (2 tbsp.) Sifted through a fine sieve to the dough, stir and place the dough in the heat for half an hour so that it grows 2-3 times.
- Then add salt, sour cream, soft butter, hammered eggs and knead the dough, gradually adding flour.
- Cover the dough with a towel and leave in a warm place for 1.5-2 hours.
- Pour the raisins with boiling water for 5 minutes, drain the water, dry it with a paper towel and add to the dough.
- Mix everything well, and divide the finished dough into 3 parts, then roll each one with a sausage, which is not completely cut lengthwise.
- Braid it, roll it around and place it on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Lubricate the products with whipped yolk, sprinkle with poppy seeds on top and leave to rise for half an hour.
- Send the baking sheet with the rolls to the preheated oven to 200 ° C on the middle shelf for 40 minutes.
Sour cream roll with ginger and citrus
Literally 45 minutes and you will have a soft, slightly crumbly sour cream ball on your Christmas table with a pleasant homemade taste.
Ingredients:
- Flour - 300 g
- Butter - 200 g
- Sour cream - 200 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Sugar - 90 g
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Baking powder - 5 g
- Ground ginger - 1 tsp
- Ground dried orange peel - 1 tsp
- Nuts - 50 g
Cooking sour cream roll with ginger and citrus:
- Beat eggs with sugar with a mixer until fluffy and add melted butter with sour cream.
- Sift the flour through a fine sieve and combine with salt, baking powder, ground ginger and orange peel.
- Gradually add the egg-sour cream mass to the dry mixture and knead a soft plastic dough.
- Make small flagella out of the dough, which twist together and form round rolls.
- Place them on a greased baking sheet. Brush the surface with whipped yolk and sprinkle with finely chopped nuts.
- Bake the Christmas sour cream roll in a preheated oven to 180 ° C for 25 minutes until lightly browned.
