My Favorite – Nut Braid

Summary

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 500g flour
• 40 g yeast
• 75 grams sugar
• 1 pinch (s) salt
• 0.25 liter ¼ milk
• 125 g butter
• 1 egg (s)
• 1 egg yolk
• possibly lemon peel, grated

For the filling:

• 150 g hazelnuts, rated
• 75 grams sugar
• 6 tablespoon heavy cream
• 1 packet vanilla sugar

For painting:

• 50 g butter, melted

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Instructions

1. Make a yeast dough from the dough ingredients, let rise as usual and then roll out into a rectangle.
2. Knead all ingredients of the filling together.
3. Brush the yeast dough with melted butter and distribute the nut filling evenly on it, leaving an edge on the sides.
4. Roll up the dough lengthways. Cut the roll lengthways with a sharp knife all the way through. Loop the two strands of dough around each other with the cut surface facing up. Place on a greased baking sheet and let rise again covered.
5. Bake at 180 ° C for about an hour.