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🍰 Crispy Yeast Braid with Nut Nougat Filling

576 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Warm the milk in a pot for about one minute until it is lukewarm.
  2. 2. Crumble the yeast into the lukewarm milk and stir in one tablespoon of sugar until dissolved.
  3. 3. Cover the pot and let the yeast milk rest for ten minutes.
  4. 4. Add the remaining sugar, butter, salt, egg, and flour to the yeast milk in a bowl.
  5. 5. Knead the ingredients into a smooth dough.
  6. 6. Let the dough rise for one hour.
  7. 7. Mix the nut nougat cream with the chopped hazelnuts in a bowl.
  8. 8. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius with top and bottom heat.
  9. 9. Flour your work surface and roll out the dough into a rectangle.
  10. 10. Spread the nut nougat mixture evenly over the dough, leaving a border of about five centimeters on one long side.
  11. 11. Roll the dough lengthwise and press the ends firmly together.
  12. 12. Wrap the dough roll around itself three times to create a braid shape.
  13. 13. Place the braid on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  14. 14. Make several shallow cuts on the surface of the braid.
  15. 15. Let the braid rise for another thirty minutes.
  16. 16. Bake the yeast braid with nut nougat filling for about forty minutes in the oven.
  17. 17. Cover the braid with aluminum foil after about thirty minutes to prevent it from becoming too dark.
  18. 18. Halve a lemon and squeeze out the juice.
  19. 19. Whisk the lemon juice in a bowl with powdered sugar to create a thick glaze.
  20. 20. Let the baked braid cool for about five minutes.
  21. 21. Brush the braid with the lemon glaze and let it dry.
  22. 22. Slice the braid and serve it.

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