Rosca De Reyes - Three Kings Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 16 ounces butter (if using margarine, not tub or spread product) or 16 ounces margarine (if using margarine, not tub or spread product)
• 1 lb powdered sugar
• 6 eggs
• 4 cups cake flour
• 1/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup chopped walnuts or 1 cup pecans
• 2 cups brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground aniseed
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 dried beans (or plastic baby)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350°f.
• 2 in large mixing bowl, cream together butter or margarine and powdered sugar.
• 3 add eggs and beat again, until light and fluffy.
• 4 combine dry ingredients, expect chopped nuts.
• 5 gradually add dry ingredients and vanilla to creamed mixture.
• 6 sprinkle nuts on bottom of lightly greased 9x5x4-inch loaf pan.
• 7 pour batter into pan.
• 8 bake at 350°f for 55 minutes, or until pick comes out clean and cake springs back to the touch.
• 9 cool 10 minutes; turn cake wire rack to cool.
• 10 insert dry bean or"baby" from the underside of the cake when cool.
• 11 during the last minutes cake is cooking, melt brown sugar in heavy saucepan over low heat.
• 12 remove from heat and add ground anise and vanilla extract.
• 13 pour warm syrup over freshly baked, cooled cake.