Frisian Sugar Bread
Ingredients
- Dough Ingredients:
- 4 cups bread flour
- 2 packages dry active yeast
- 1 1/ 4 cups milk
- 1/4 cup sugar + 3 tablespoon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon saffron crushed
- 1/4 cup butter softened
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 teaspoons salt
- Filling Ingredients:
- 9 oz. sugar cubes crushed
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat the milk to 120 – 130 F. In a small bowl, combine 1 cup of the milk with 1 tablespoon of the sugar. Whisk. Add yeast and give it a quick stir. Let sit for 10 minutes until yeast is foamy.
- Add saffron, the 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon and nutmeg to the rest of the milk.
- Using an electric mixer, combine the flour, remaining sugar and salt with the paddle attachment.
- Add proofed yeast, saffron milk, butter and egg yolk and mix well using the dough hook.
- Continue to knead with the dough hook until the dough comes together to a soft dough, for about 5 minutes. (Knead for 10 minutes if doing by hand)
- Cover with plastic wrap and a kitchen towel and let rise for 1 hour, until doubled in size.
- In a small bowl, combine the filling ingredients and mix well. (I ran out of sugar cubes so used a combination of sugar cubes and sugar candy)
- Punch out air from risen dough. On a lightly floured board, roll out dough to a rectangle. Sprinkle cinnamon sugar on top. Starting at the narrow end, tightly roll the rectangle into a cylinder.
- Spray a loaf pan with non stick spray. Sprinkle remaining 2 tablespoons sugar for dusting inside the loaf pan.
- Place dough, seam side down in the pan. Cover and let rise another hour, until doubled in size.
- Preheat oven to 400 F.
- Bake for 30 minutes.
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