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Nut braid recipe: This is what you need
For a nut braid you need the following ingredients:
- For the dough: 500g flour, 200ml milk, 60g sugar, 1 cube of fresh yeast, 100g butter, 5g salt, 2 eggs, 1 dash of lemon, 1 pinch of vanilla
- For the filling: 100g sugar, 150ml milk, 250g ground hazelnuts, 1 packet of vanilla sugar, 100g ladyfingers or sweet crumbs, 1 pinch of salt, and 1 teaspoon of cinnamon.
- For coating: 100g icing sugar, 30g roasted and chopped hazelnuts, ½ tsp lemon juice
Nut braid: Prepare the dough
Once you have all the ingredients together, you can start making the dough for your nut braid.
- Put all the dry ingredients for the dough in a bowl. Gradually add all the liquid ingredients.
- Knead the dough with a mixer or by hand for five minutes. If you used a kneading machine, take out the dough and knead it by hand for another five minutes.
- Put the dough in a large bowl. Let it rise covered for an hour. Put the bowl in a warm place and avoid drafts.
Making the filling: This is how it works
In the meantime, while the dough is rising, you can make the filling.
- Finely grind the ladyfingers.
- Boil the milk together with the vanilla sugar and sugar.
- Add the ground hazelnuts along with the cinnamon and salt. Mix in the ladyfingers too.
- Stir well. A homogeneous mass should form.
Finishing the yeast plait: Here’s how to do it
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Roll out the dough on a floured work surface.
- Spread the dough with the nut filling and roll it up evenly.
- Now cut the roll in half. Don’t cut the end.
- Wrap the two strands of dough around each other like a cord.
- The nut braid can now go in the oven for half an hour.
- Mix together the ingredients for the frosting. Spread it over the cooled nut braid. Then sprinkle with the chopped hazelnuts.