Nut marzipan wreath

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Crumble the yeast, mix with 1 teaspoon of sugar and milk. Leave in a warm place for about 10 minutes. Put soft fat, salt, flour, 1 egg, 3 tablespoons 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. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.

2. 2

   In the meantime, finely chop the walnuts. Dice the apricots finely. Knead marzipan, nuts, apricots, rum and 2 eggs. Knead the dough again and divide into three. Roll out one third of the dough one after the other on a floured work surface to a rectangle (approx. 70 x 15 cm). Cut the marzipan mixture into thirds as well. Pour the marzipan mixture onto each rectangle in the middle and spread it out a little lengthwise, roll it up. Weave the three dough rolls into a plait. Place the plait in a greased tube bottom form (26 cm Ø). Whisk the egg yolk and brush the plait with it.

3. 3

   Pour the marzipan mixture onto each rectangle in the middle and spread it out a little lengthwise, roll it up. Weave the three dough rolls into a plait. Place the plait in a greased tube bottom form (26 cm Ø). Whisk the egg yolk and brush the plait with it. Sprinkle with sugar crystals. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 200 °C/ convection oven: 175 °C/ gas: level 3) for 40-45 minutes. Let it cool down on a cake rack

4. 4

   waiting time approx. 3 hours