Marzipan and poppy seed plait

Name: Marzipan and poppy seed plait
Cook time: 1 h 45 min
Total time: 1 h 45 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 500 g Flour; 1/4 l Milk; 1 cube (42 g) Yeast; 1 TABLESPOON + 60 g sugar; 100 g Butter; 1 pinch Salt; 1 egg (size M); 200 g Marzipan raw mass; 1 package (250 g) Poppy seed bake; 2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice; 150 g Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp a few drops of yellow, red and green food colouring; 7-10 Tbsp jelly belies; 7-10 Tbsp Flour; baking paper

AUTHOR
Valentine Lee

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
105 mins

TOTAL TIME
105 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16

500 g Flour
1/4 l Milk
1 cube (42 g) Yeast
1 TABLESPOON + 60 g sugar
100 g Butter
1 pinch Salt
1 egg (size M)
200 g Marzipan raw mass
1 package (250 g) Poppy seed bake
2 TABLESPOONS Lemon juice
150 g Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp a few drops of yellow, red and green food colouring
7-10 Tbsp jelly belies
7-10 Tbsp Flour
baking paper

Directions

1
Pour the flour into a bowl and press a depression into it. Warm up the milk. Mix yeast, 1 tablespoon sugar and some milk. Pour into the bowl and sprinkle some flour from the rim over it. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 15 minutes.
2
Melt the butter. Add the remaining milk, butter, 60 g sugar, salt and egg and knead to a smooth dough with the dough hooks of the hand mixer. Cover and leave to rise for another 30 minutes in a warm place.
3
Meanwhile, finely grate 175 g marzipan and knead with the poppy seed mixture. Roll out the yeast dough into a rectangle (35 x 40 cm) on a well floured work surface. Spread the dough with the poppy seed mixture, leaving an approx. 3 cm wide strip on one long side.
4
Roll up the dough sheet from the coated long side. Cut the roll to one end, lengthwise. Twist both halves with the cut surface facing upwards (type: cord).
5
Place the braid diagonally on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for approx. 60 minutes. Cover if necessary 20 minutes before the end of the baking time.
6
In the meantime, mix lemon juice and icing sugar. Halve 25 g marzipan. Colour one half orange with red and yellow food colouring. Colour the other half with green food colouring. Take the plait out of the oven.
7
Immediately spread the icing evenly on top. Cut flowers and leaves from the marzipan and decorate the plait with them. Place Jelly Bellies in the flowers.