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🍰 pcs Martinsbrezel or Stutenkerl

350 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Warm the milk in a pot until it is lukewarm. Remove the pot from the heat.
  2. 2. Crumble the yeast into the warm milk.
  3. 3. Add 2 tablespoons of sugar to the milk and stir until the yeast and sugar have dissolved.
  4. 4. Cover the pot and let the mixture rest for about 15 minutes.
  5. 5. Put flour, salt, the remaining sugar, and the butter cut into small pieces into a bowl.
  6. 6. Add the egg and the yeast milk mixture to the bowl.
  7. 7. Knead everything into a smooth dough.
  8. 8. Cover the dough and let it rise in a warm place for about 1 hour until it has doubled in size.
  9. 9. Knead the dough briefly again.
  10. 10. Divide the dough on a floured surface into 8 equal parts for pretzels or into 4 equal parts for Stutenkerl figures.
  11. 11. For the Stutenkerl figures, take one quarter of the portions and form them into balls.
  12. 12. Shape the bodies of the Stutenkerl figures from the remaining dough portions.
  13. 13. Place the balls on the bodies as heads.
  14. 14. Roll the dough pieces for the pretzels into long strands about 60 centimeters long.
  15. 15. Shape the strands into classic pretzels.
  16. 16. Place the Stutenkerl figures or pretzels on a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  17. 17. Brush the pastries with the remaining milk.
  18. 18. Press raisins into the Stutenkerl figures to form eyes, nose, and mouth.
  19. 19. Sprinkle the pretzels with coarse sugar.
  20. 20. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
  21. 21. Bake the Stutenkerl figures in the oven for about 25 to 30 minutes.
  22. 22. Bake the pretzels in the oven for about 20 to 25 minutes.
  23. 23. Let the pastries cool down completely.
  24. 24. Serve the pretzels or Stutenkerl figures fresh.

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