Poppy Easter nests

Ingredients for 8 servings:

• 500 g flour
• 1 packet of dry yeast
• 60 g sugar
• 1 pinch of salt
• 265 ml milk
• 125 g margarine
• 3 egg yolks
• 80 g poppy seed cake
• 8 eggs, colored, hard-boiled

Instructions

Working time approx. 20 minutes; Rest time approx. 20 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 20 minutes; Total time approx. 1 hour

Mix flour, dried yeast, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Heat 250 ml of milk over low heat until lukewarm. Add margarine and melt in the milk. Add it to the dry ingredients in the bowl along with 2 egg yolks and knead with the dough hook of a hand mixer until smooth. Cover with a cloth and let it rise in a warm place for about 20 minutes. Halve the dough. Knead the poppy seed mixture into half of the dough. Divide each half of the dough into 8 pieces. Form each piece into a finger-thick roll. Wrap one roll with poppy seeds and one without around each other and form into a wreath, leaving a small hole in the middle (for the colorful Easter egg). Mix the remaining egg yolk and milk and brush the poppy seed nests with it. Bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C (180 °C fan-assisted oven) for about 20 minutes. Immediately after baking, press 1 colored egg into each poppy seed nest.