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Christmas Bread

Course Breakfast, Dessert
Cuisine Danish
Servings 8 buns

Ingredients
  

  • 2 1/2 dl whole milk
  • 25 g fresh yeast
  • 1 egg
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp cardamom grounded
  • 1 tbsp cinnamon grounded
  • 75 g sugar
  • 50 g raisins or dried cranberry or chopped and dried apricot
  • 75 g candied peel
  • 450 g flour
  • 1 egg as garnish
  • 6 tbsp pearl sugar as garnish
  • 40 g hazelnuts as garnish

Instructions
 

  • Heat the milk till it is lukewarm (not too hot or too cold for e.g. a little finger)
  • Dissolve the yeast in the milk in a bowl
  • Whisk one egg in the milk
  • Add salt, cardamom, cinnamon, and sugar (not the pearl sugar)
  • Add half the flour and stir till it has an even texture
  • Add the raisins and candied peel and the rest of the flour
  • Sprinkle the kitchen top with flour and knead the dough till it has an even texture and isn't too sticky
  • Let the dough raise for about 1 hour in a bowl covered with a dishtowel
  • Form about 8 buns and let them raise for about 30 min on two pieces of baking paper cover with a dishtowel
  • Whisk the egg in a small bowl and chop the hazelnuts
  • Brush the buns with egg and sprinkle with pearl sugar and finely chopped hassenlut
  • Bake the buns at 180 degrees C in 20-30 min
  • Serve the buns while they are warm