Yeast plait with apricots, marzipan and pistachios

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Directions

1. 1

   Warm up the cream to 2 tablespoons lukewarm. Mix yeast with cream. Cover and leave to rise in a warm place for about 10 minutes. Put salt, flour, eggs, sugar and vanilla 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

   Grate the marzipan, chop the apricots and mix with the marzipan. Add 2 tablespoons of jam and mix well. Mix egg yolk and 2 tbsp. cream. Coarsely chop the pistachios. Roll out the dough on a floured work surface to a rectangle (approx. 45 x 60 cm). Divide the dough into thirds lengthwise. Divide filling into three

3. 3

   Roll up the apricot and marzipan filling. Press the dough ends together and weave loosely. Place the plait on a baking tray lined with baking paper, spread with egg yolk cream, press boiled eggs into the plait. Let the plait rise for another 20-30 minutes. Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) for about 35 minutes. Cover if necessary after about 20 minutes. Remove and let cool slightly on a kitchen grid. Heat 2 tbsp. jam and brush the plait with it, then sprinkle with sugar crystals and pistachios

4. 4

   waiting time approx. 1 1/4 hours

Nutrition Facts

KCAL
210 kcal

CARBS
29 g

FATS
8 g

PROTEINS
5 g