Easter Flower Pie with Two Fillings

Incredibly delicious holiday cake in the shape of a flower, made from yeast dough stuffed with poppy and walnuts. Pie with poppy seeds and nuts according to this recipe turns out to be very fragrant, moist and just melting in the mouth.

Summary

Ingredients

For the dough:

• Flour – 350 g
• Butter – 100 g
• Sugar – 80 g
• Dry yeast – 5 g
• Milk – 150 ml
• Yolks – 3 pcs. + 1 pc. for greasing the cake
• Vanilla sugar – 10 g
• Salt – 0.3333 teaspoon.

For filling:

• Poppy – 100 g
• Milk – 100 ml
• Sugar – 70 g
• Walnuts – 70 g

Instructions

1. Add yeast to warm milk, 1 tbsp sugar (20 g), 2 tbsp flour, mix, cover with cling film and leave warm for 20-30 minutes. I put it in a warm oven.
   Grind egg yolks with 60 g of sugar and vanilla sugar to white. Pour in the melted cooled butter.
   Add the egg-oil mixture to the matched dough, mix and gradually add the remaining flour.

   

2. Knead the dough for about 5 minutes. The dough is very soft, elastic and practically does not stick to your hands. Cover the dough with cling film and place in a warm oven for 1 hour.
3. We wash the poppy, fill it with milk and cook over low heat for 10 minutes, filter through a sieve. Cool and add 40 g of sugar. Grind the nuts with a blender or pass through a meat grinder. Add 30 g of sugar.
4. Lightly knead the dough that has come up, divide into 5 parts. Roll out 5 round cakes with a diameter of about 20-25 cm and a thickness of about 4-5 mm.
   Putting together the pie on parchment paper. Distribute half of the poppy filling over the surface of the cake, slightly short of the edge. We cover with the next cake, go along the edge with our fingers, connecting the edges. Distribute half of the nut filling. We do this with all the cakes, alternating toppings. At the end we go along the edge with a fork.
5. We outline 8 cuts and make cuts before reaching the middle. Now we make cuts inside each petal. We turn each petal from top to bottom. Tuck the edges.

   

6. We send poppy seed cake from yeast dough to a warm oven for proofing for 1 hour. Grease the top of the pie with yolk. We place the pie with poppy seeds and nuts in an oven preheated to 170 ° C for 30-40 minutes. The baking temperature and baking time will depend on the characteristics of your oven. We check the readiness of the cake with a wooden skewer, it should come out dry and clean.

   

7. Easter flower cake with poppy seeds and nuts is ready. The structure of the dough is layered, the cake is moist, it just melts in the mouth.

Bon Appetit!