New Year's pretzel with marzipan

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 200 g butter
• 1 kg flour
• 2 cubes of yeast, 42 g each
• 2 pinches of salt
• 50 g sugar
• 2 tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 400 ml milk
• 400 g marzipan
• 200 g cream
• 100 g almonds, chopped
• 100 g almonds, ground
• some milk for brushing
• 4 tbsp granulated sugar for sprinkling

Instructions

Working time approx. 1 hour; Rest time approx. 30 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 25 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour 55 minutes

Recipe for 2 large pretzels

Melt the butter in a saucepan over medium heat. Meanwhile, combine the flour, crumbled yeast, salt, sugar, 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and eggs in the bowl of a food processor. Add the cold milk to the butter in the saucepan. Gradually add the liquid to the dough with the mixer running and mix everything into a smooth dough. Then cover and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. In the meantime, heat the cream, chopped marzipan, chopped and ground almonds, and the remaining vanilla extract in a saucepan and mix with a hand mixer. Cut the dough into 6 equal pieces on a floured surface. Roll out each piece to approximately 50 cm x 10 cm and spread with one-sixth of the marzipan mixture. Then roll up the long edge, place the rope on the seam, and repeat with all 6 portions. Preheat the oven to 170 °C fan/convection oven. Join three of the resulting strings together at one end and braid them into a plait. Shape each plait into a pretzel on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush with a little milk and sprinkle with sugar. Bake each pretzel in the preheated oven on the middle rack for about 25 minutes.