Heat 100 ml milk. Crumble the yeast into it, add 10 g sugar, stir until smooth, cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 20 minutes
Melt the butter, add 75 ml of milk and warm up lukewarm. Knead with flour, egg, 30 g sugar, vanillin sugar, salt and yeast dough to a smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes. Meanwhile, for the filling, finely puree the cherries, coconut liqueur and cherry jam in a blender. Stir in grated coconut
Knead the yeast dough and weigh it into 8 equal portions. Roll out dough pieces into long strands (30-35 cm, 5-6 cm wide) on a lightly floured work surface. Spread with cherry filling, leaving a rim of approx. 1.5 cm free. Whisk the egg yolks and brush the edges with them. Roll up the dough strands from the long side. Twist each 2 strands of dough to a cord and form a wreath, press the ends together. Place the wreaths on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Cover and leave to rise again for about 20 minutes. Whisk the remaining egg yolk with 2 tbsp. milk. Spread the wreaths with the milk. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 225 °C/ convection oven: 200 °C/ gas: level 4) on the 2nd rack from the bottom for 12-15 minutes, remove and let cool off lukewarm
Melt apricot jam and about 1 tbsp. water in a pot, pass through a sieve. Spread the wreaths with jam. With H
waiting time approx. 1 1/2 hours