Sweet braid,

In Sunday I finally took time and baked after a while again. I really felt good to do it, since I love to bake. Unfortunately there is not many, who would eat it, else I would love to bake much more often.

Ingredients:

600-800 gr. wheat flour
4 dl.  water or milk
60 gr. butter
4 tbl spoon sugar
1 teaspoon salt
50 gr yeast
1 egg

200 gr. hazelnut cream
150 gr. dark chocolate
200 gr. dried apricots

crush yeast to the bowl and add sugar. Mix it until yeast has melted. Add salt. Under the time warm up milk or water up to ca 35 degrees and add it to melted yeast and sugar mix. Melt all the butter and add it to the mix. Mix it through and make sure that all sugar is melted. As a last add flour little in a time and mix it. Knead until dough is fast. If you can, take it out of bowl and let it stay in the counter about 1 hour. After that divide it 3 equal shares.

Roll all shares in equally out in squares. Chop the apricots and chocolate . Cover each square equally with hazelnut cream and chopped apricots and chocolate in full length. Roll it up. Braid the rolls and lift to the baking pan. Whip up the egg and cover the braid. Let it stay out another 35-40 minutes. Heat oven up to 200 degrees and after it has stand out, bake it 35 minutes.  After that it is ready to eat.

This braid was filled with hazelnut cream, chocolate and apricots, but it can be filled actually with anything you want. This dough was quite sweet, since I had used sweet yeast and little bit more sugar, but this same dough can be made even to salt pastry. Just use ordinary yeast and little bit less sugar and little bit more salt and salty filling. 

Enjoy it with good cup of coffee.

Have a nice evening,
                                     Ingrit