Cardamom coffee bread with almond,

For a while ago, I made a little bit different coffee bread, what I had never done before. I have eaten little bit similar one and have wanted to try as well, but I have not had courage to do it, because I do not believe much to my competence to succeed in some baking things. Since we had a Lions board meeting in our home, when I wanted to do something good for coffee and I thought, that I can try. If I do not fix it, I can go and buy something from bakery. For my surprise, I made it and it tasted very good. Only negative part in my opinion was, that I had bit too much Bourbon vanilla. It took taste over, since I was but bit more, than recipe had. Here is recipe for the coffee bread.

Ingredients:

Wheat dough:

30 gr yeast
250 gr milk
110 gr butte, room temperature
570 gr wheat flour
3 gr salt
5 gr ground cardamom
1 egg
110 gr caster sugar

Filling:

120 gr sugar
200 gr almond flour
150 gr butter, room temperature
10 gr vanilla sugar
Cardamom

Baking:

2 egg for brushing
Sugar
Cardamom 

Syrup:

1 dl water
1 dl sugar

First step is to do wheat dough. Crumb yeast into a bowl what you have with your kitchen assistant. Warm up milk until it is lukewarm and mix it with yeast. But other ingredients into a bowl and let assistant work in a slow tempo. When all is mixed together, you take a speed up a little  and let it work 10 minutes until it has build a gluten and gets a shiny and nice surface.
Take dough out from the bowl and put it to baking board what you have covered with a bit flour. Let dough rest there 15 minutes under the cloth . Roll dough out until it is 3-4 mm thick.
Make a filling. Mix almond flour, caster sugar, vanilla sugar and little by little a butter until you have smooth filling. Wide a even layer filling over the rolled dough. Sprinkle on sugar and cardamom, roll together to lengths. Take a scissors and cut a ankle, ca 1,5 - 2 cm big bites. Cut almost all the way, but not all through. Fold the pieces what is left and right alternately, but let them sit together as one wheat length. Divide the long length to 4 even lengths.
Concoct sugar and water to syrup and let it cool down.
Put the oven to 180 degrees. Let the wheat length rise under the cloth ca 1 -1,5 hours. Brush with whipped eggs the lengths and  cover with sugar and cardamom. Bake 2 lengths on the time, about 20 - 25 minutes or until it has got a nice color. When you take them out in the oven, brush every length with syrup.

I can say, that I liked the end result. It was perfect for the cup of coffee and it lasted for a while but not for a very long time since all liked it. I will not be last time I will bake it. There will come other times as well, when we get the guests. 

Bon Appetit!
                       Love,
                                Ingrit