Easter bread

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 500 g flour
• 1 cube of yeast
• 200 ml milk
• 50 g sugar
• 1 packet of flavoring (Zitroback)
• 100 g butter
• ½ tsp salt
• 1 egg(s)
• 100 g raisins
• possibly candied lemon and orange peel
• 200 g marzipan paste
• 100 g powdered sugar
• 50 g almond flakes, roasted, for sprinkling

Instructions

Working time approx. 30 minutes; Rest time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 30 minutes

Paasbrood – offered by Dutch bakers at Easter

Prepare a pre-dough from flour, milk, sugar, and yeast and let it rise, covered, for 20 minutes. Then add the remaining ingredients and knead into a smooth dough. Let the dough rise in the bowl for another 30 minutes. Then pour about 2/3 of the dough into a greased loaf pan. Shape the marzipan mixture into a roll 3 cm shorter than the loaf pan, place it on top of the dough in the pan, and press it in slightly. Add the remaining dough on top and smooth it out. Let it rise for another 20 minutes. Then bake in a preheated oven at 170°C (convection oven) for 50-60 minutes. Cover the hot bread with icing and sprinkle with toasted almond flakes.