Poppy seed strips

AUTHOR
Xavier Baldwin
DIFFICULTY
easy
RATING
4 5
COOK TIME
75 mins
TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 1
  • 100 g Butter or margarine
  • 150 ml Milk
  • 1 cube (42 g) Yeast
  • 500 g Flour
  • 50 g Sugar
  • 1 pinch Salt
  • 1 egg (size M)
  • 1 can(s) (425 ml; 250 g by weight) Apricots
  • 1 package (250 g) Poppy seed bake
  • 100 g Schmand
  • 1 Egg Yolk
  • 75 g Almond slivers
  • 75 g Apricot Jam
  • 1 TABLESPOON Icing sugar
  • baking paper

Directions

  1. 1

    Warm the fat and milk lukewarm. Stir in crumbled yeast. Mix flour, sugar and salt, add yeast mixture and egg and knead to a smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for 30 minutes. In the meantime, drain apricots well and dice them. Mix poppy seed bake, sour cream and egg yolk.

  2. 2

    Stir in apricots and 50 grams of almond slivers. Knead the yeast dough again and roll out to a rectangle (about 25x35 cm). Place the poppy seed mixture in the middle, leaving a five centimetre wide rim on both long sides. Fold it over the poppy seed filling. Sprinkle the remaining almond slivers on the edge of the dough. Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and leave to rise for another 15 minutes. Bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200 °C/ gas: level 3) for 35 to 45 minutes. Cover if necessary. Let cool on a cake rack. Pass the apricot jam through a sieve and warm it up. Spread the cake with it and let it dry.

  3. 3

    Place on a baking tray lined with baking paper and leave to rise for another 15 minutes. Bake in the preheated oven (electric oven: 200 °C/ gas: level 3) for 35 to 45 minutes. Cover if necessary. Let cool on a cake rack. Pass the apricot jam through a sieve and warm it up. Spread the cake with it and let it dry. Dust with icing sugar. Results in twelve slices

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
400 kcal
CARBS
52 g
FATS
17 g
PROTEINS
9 g

Categories & Tags

MiscellaneousChristmas