Classic Easter Plait with Curd and Buttermilk




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Total time: 45 min

Servings: 25.0 (servings)

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Instructions:

A cake recipe for all foodies:

Dusty cakes belong in the sandbox, not on the breakfast table – the curd makes this dough moist and fluffy 1. Boil 3 eggs until hard, quench and cool. Mix curd, 9 tbsp buttermilk, oil, sugar, vanillin sugar, lemon zest and salt with the whisk of a hand mixer.

2. combine flour and baking powder, fold in about one-third. Knead in remaining flour with dough hooks of hand mixer, then knead briefly with hands.

Take a piece of dough (the size of an apricot). Divide the rest of the dough into thirds, roll each into 40-45 cm long strands and place them together. Press together at one end and braid into a plait (s.

right). Press end together and fold over.

Press eggs into braid, spacing them apart. Roll remaining dough on a small bit of flour into 2 thin strands and shape into a bow. Separate 1 tbsp. Brush loop with egg white, flatten onto braid. Place braid on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake in hot oven (electric oven: 200 °C /circulating air: 175 °C /gas mark 3), 2nd rack from the bottom, for 15-20 minutes.

Turn down heat (electric oven: 175 °C /circulating air: 150 °C /gas:

Speed 2). Stir egg yolk and 1 tbsp. buttermilk. Brush the plait with the mixture and sprinkle with almond kernels. Bake for 10-15 minutes. Cool. Dust with powdered sugar. Serve with butter and strawberry jam.

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