Brioche plait with apricot and hazelnut filling

Name: Brioche plait with apricot and hazelnut filling
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 20
Ingredients: 175 ml Milk; 1 cube (42 g) fresh yeast; 1 TEASPOON + 3 tablespoons sugar; 150 g soft butter or margarine; 1 pinch Salt; 500 g Flour; 1 egg (size M); 1 package Vanillin sugar; 400 g dried soft apricots; 4 TABLESPOONS Orange liqueur; 4 TABLESPOONS Orange juice; 250 g Hazelnut kernels; 100 g Apricot Jam; 1 Egg Yolk; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Flour; baking paper

AUTHOR
Diane Archer

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 20

175 ml Milk
1 cube (42 g) fresh yeast
1 TEASPOON + 3 tablespoons sugar
150 g soft butter or margarine
1 pinch Salt
500 g Flour
1 egg (size M)
1 package Vanillin sugar
400 g dried soft apricots
4 TABLESPOONS Orange liqueur
4 TABLESPOONS Orange juice
250 g Hazelnut kernels
100 g Apricot Jam
1 Egg Yolk
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp Flour
baking paper

Directions

1
Warm the milk lukewarm. Crumble the yeast, mix with 1 teaspoon sugar and milk. Leave in a warm place for about 10 minutes. Put fat, salt, flour, egg, 3 tbsp. sugar and vanillin sugar in a bowl. Add the yeast mixture and knead with the dough hooks of the hand mixer to a smooth dough.
2
Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. In the meantime, cut the apricots into strips and marinate them in liqueur and orange juice. Coarsely chop the nuts. Knead nuts, apricots and jam. Knead the dough again and roll out into a rectangle (approx. 70 x 45 cm) on a floured work surface. Divide the rectangle into three parts lengthwise. Also divide the filling into three. Place the filling in the middle of each dough rectangle and spread lengthwise, roll up. Weave the 3 pastry rolls into a plait. Place the plait on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Whisk the egg yolk and brush the plait with it. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for approx. 30 minutes.
3
Also divide the filling into three. Place the filling in the middle of each dough rectangle and spread lengthwise, roll up. Weave the 3 pastry rolls into a plait. Place the plait on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Whisk the egg yolk and brush the plait with it. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for approx. 30 minutes. Let cool down on a cake rack. Dust with icing sugar and cut into slices
4
waiting time approx. 2 hours