German Easter Braid With Marzipan Filling |
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Ready In: 0 Minutes Servings: 8 |
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From a German recipe group for a special Easter loaf- marzipan filled fruit loaf Ingredients:
500 g flour |
40 g yeast |
80 g sugar |
1 egg |
60 g butter |
1 grated peel from a whole lemon |
200 ml lukewarm milk |
100 g powdered sugar , divided |
200 g marzipan paste |
1 egg , separated |
1 orange , peel and juice, divided |
70 g pistachios |
Directions:
1. Prep does not include yeasat dough prep, rising time etc.
2. Prepare a standard sweet dough from the yeast, flour, sugar, butter ,egg and milk and grated lemon zest. ( knead, let rise, punch down, rise again etc etc )
3. Separate the second egg.
4. Mix the yolk with 1/2 of the powdered sugar till foamy
5. Crumble the marzipan into small cubes
6. Mix marzipan mixture with egg yolk mixture till smooth consistency
7. Beat the white stiff and fold into mixture
8. Stir in half the grated orange peel.
9. Take the prepared dough and roll out to a rectangle 40 x 60 cm
10. Spread with the marzipan mixture and sprinkle with 3/4 of the pistachios
11. Cut the dough into 4 strips ( 10 x 60 cm ) lengthwise
12. Form and roll each stip into a roll as you would for a strudel, sealing in filling tightly
13. Fashion the four rolls into one braided loaf
14. Seal and tuck edges together.
15. Let loaf rest for 10 minutes on the counter
16. Preheat oven to 200C
17. Bake until golden about 35 minutes.
18. Remove from oven and cool to warm
19. Mix remaining powder sugar with remaining juice from half the orange and a little orange peel.
20. Pour over loaf and sprinkle with remianing pistachios
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