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German Easter Braid With Marzipan Filling Recipe


German Easter Braid With Marzipan Filling Recipe
From a German recipe group for a special Easter loaf- marzipan filled fruit loaf

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Ingredients
  • 500 g Flour
  • 40 g Yeast
  • 80 g Sugar
  • 1 Egg
  • 60 g Butter
  • 1 grated peel from a whole Lemon
  • 200 ml lukewarm milk
  • 100 g Powdered sugar , divided
  • 200 g marzipan paste
  • 1 egg , separated
  • 1 Orange , peel and juice, divided
  • 70 g pistachios

Directions
  1. Prep does not include yeasat dough prep, rising time etc.
  2. Prepare a standard sweet dough from the yeast, flour, sugar, butter ,egg and milk and grated lemon zest. ( knead, let rise, punch down, rise again etc etc )
  3. Separate the second egg.
  4. Mix the yolk with 1/2 of the powdered sugar till foamy
  5. Crumble the marzipan into small cubes
  6. Mix marzipan mixture with egg yolk mixture till smooth consistency
  7. Beat the white stiff and fold into mixture
  8. Stir in half the grated orange peel.
  9. Take the prepared dough and roll out to a rectangle 40 x 60 cm
  10. Spread with the marzipan mixture and sprinkle with 3/4 of the pistachios
  11. Cut the dough into 4 strips ( 10 x 60 cm ) lengthwise
  12. Form and roll each stip into a roll as you would for a strudel, sealing in filling tightly
  13. Fashion the four rolls into one braided loaf
  14. Seal and tuck edges together.
  15. Let loaf rest for 10 minutes on the counter
  16. Preheat oven to 200C
  17. Bake until golden about 35 minutes.
  18. Remove from oven and cool to warm
  19. Mix remaining powder sugar with remaining juice from half the orange and a little orange peel.
  20. Pour over loaf and sprinkle with remianing pistachios

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Comments


Love the orange and lemon flavor mix with this great recipe thanks


Mmmm. sounds delicious!


This sounds lovely! Another great and unique recipe from you, thanks!


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