Recipe: Perfect Gâteau des rois 👑

Gâteau des rois 👑. A galette des rois is made of an irresistibly creamy almond filling sandwiched between two flaky, buttery layers of puff pastry. The ingredients for almond cream all go into a food processor to blend, and then the paste is spread onto store-bought puff pastry, making this impressive cake simple to put together. The galette des rois, celebrating Epiphany, the day the Three Kings (les rois) visited the infant Jesus, is baked throughout January in France.

Some French traditions celebrate the glory of Christmas. These days, this message is all but lost, but for many devoted French Christians- the Cake of Kings will have a deeper meaning. I visisted France last year during the holidays and tried a galette des rois there so I was very pleased to find this recipe. You can cook Gâteau des rois 👑 using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Gâteau des rois 👑

1. Prepare 240 ml of lait.
2. Prepare 60 g of sucre.
3. It's 1 of sachet de sucre vanillé.
4. It's 2 of sachets de levure de boulanger.
5. Prepare of Extrait de vanille liquide.
6. You need 500 g of farine à brioche.
7. It's 60 g of beurre mou.
8. Prepare 1 of œuf.
9. Prepare 1 of càc de sel.
10. You need 1 of jaune d’œuf pour la dorure.
11. Prepare 20 g of d’amandes effilées.
12. It's 20 g of sucre perlés.

It came out great and tasted as delicious as the one I had in France. Merci beaucoup for this great recipe! Supposedly, it's a traditional dessert created to honour the three kings who travelled thousands of miles to visit the baby Jesus in Bethlehem… but actually it is a load of old baloney! Made with brioche (challad bread) NEW ORLEANS KING'S CAKE.

Gâteau des rois 👑 step by step

1. Mettre le lait à température ambiante dans votre robot. Ajoutez, le sucre, l’extrait de vanille et sucre vanillé, puis mélangez. Mettre la levure dans le bol. Mélangez 3 min..
2. Ajoutez la farine et le beurre mou en morceaux, l’œuf et la cuillère à café de sel. Pétrissez pendant 4 min au moins. La pâte doit se décoller et former une boule..
3. Déposer ensuite la pâte dans un saladier fariné au fond. Couvrir avec un torchon propre et laisser lever dans votre cuisine pendant 1 heure au moins..
4. Déposez la pâte sur un plan de travail et coupez un morceau de 320g, formez une boule et déposez là au centre. Divisez le reste de la pâte en 8 pâtons égaux et former 8 petites boules..
5. Disposez les petites boules autour de la grosse. Les badigeonnez avec de l’eau et les assembler. Couvrir la pâte avec un torchon et laissez lever pendant 20 min..
6. Préchauffez le four à 180 degrés.
7. Dorez les boules avec le jaunes d’œuf en utilisant un pinceau. Puis, ajoutez les amandes effilées. Et le sucre perlés. Faites cuire au four pendant 25-30 min. Laissez refroidir et bon appétit 😋.

Brioche (challah bread) with cinnamon drops and cream cheese covered with fondant and sugar. They all, however, have the common feature of hidden 'treasure' - traditionally a bean or figurine, which is a special. Because it's such a popular treat, and lucrative for bakeries, the period of availability seems to extend a few more days every year and it's not unusual for find bakeries. You may also see it in other French-speaking countries and regions with Christian traditions (like Québec) or in other places with French expat communities. The traditional "Gâteau des Rois" is a crown-shaped brioche with candied fruits (fruits confits), from a region which extends from Nice to Toulouse.