Nutcake

Summary

Prep Time	30 mins
Cook Time	25 mins
Total Time	2 hrs 15 mins
Course	Breakfast
Cuisine	European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

Instructions

For the yeast dough, heat the milk lukewarm and dissolve the yeast in it together with 50 g sugar and 1 tablespoon vanilla sugar. Sieve the flour into a bowl, add a pinch of salt and make a well in the middle. This is where the egg comes in.
Spread the soft butter in flakes on the edge, then add the milk and knead everything with your hands to form a smooth dough that loosens nicely from the edge of the bowl. It will take a few minutes. Cover the dough with a damp tea towel and let rise in a warm place for about 1 hour until it has doubled.
For the filling, beat the egg whites with a hand mixer until foamy, gradually pour in 100 g of sugar and when the mixture is relatively firm, stir in the ground walnuts. Finally add the cinnamon and cocoa powder.
Divide the dough into 4 equal pieces, shape each into a roll of the same length, about the length of a baking sheet. Now roll out each roll in width so that the nut filling can be placed in the middle of each strand. Do not use too much filling and leave a border, otherwise the strand can no longer be closed.
Now the rolls are closed again and placed with the seam facing down next to each other on a baking sheet lined with baking paper. Now it`s time to braid: First gather the 4 strands at the top and press them together firmly. You take the right strand, this wanders from right to left. To do this, you put it over the next, under the next but one and again over the last strand. This is also done with the strand that is now on the far right. He wanders from the right over the next, under the next but one, and again over the last strand. Continue like this until you have a 4-strand braid in front of you. The end is squeezed and the braid is smeared with egg yolk.
Let it rest for another 20 minutes and preheat the oven to 180 ° C top and bottom heat. After 20 minutes, brush the braid again with egg yolk, sprinkle with some walnut halves and bake for about 25 minutes.