Holiday Braided Bread
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 10
- Yields:
-
2 loaves
- Serves:
- 16
ingredients
- 3 tablespoons yeast
- 1 1⁄2 cups warm milk
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 5 cups white bread flour
- 1⁄2 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon cardamom
- 1 cup melted butter
- 2 eggs, slightly beaten
- 1 cup white bread flour
directions
- Mix yeast, milk, and 2 tsp sugar. Cover with a paper towel and soak 5-10 minutes.
- Mix 5 cups flour, remaining sugar, salt, cardamom, butter, and eggs. Add yeast mixture.
- Knead in remaining flour as needed until soft and elastic.
- Pinch dough into two sections and shape into rolls or loaves. Let rise until double in size.
- Bake 20-25 minutes at 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
- To braid: Roll loaf into a long rectangle with a rolling pin. Spread about 1/2 cup filling in a stripe from top to bottom (the long way). Using kitchen shears cut the long edges into strips, about an inch wide each with a corresponding strip on the opposite edges. Fold strips across the filling back and forth. Tuck the ends under the "braid." Let rise, bake, and serve.
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