HONEY AND WALNUT SWEET BREAD
Ready In: 2 hrs 45 mins
Serves: 8-10
Ingredients
- 500 g plain flour
- 1 teaspoon bread improver
- 100 g butter, melted
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 teaspoons dried yeast
- 2 tablespoons honey (top)
- 2 tablespoons roughly crushed walnuts
Directions
- place all the ingredients except for the topping, into a bowl and mix until combined.
- on a lightly floured board, knead until smooth, about 10 minutes.
- place dough into a greased bowl. cover and place into a warm position to rise for 1 hour, or until doubled in size.
- tip dough onto a floured board, punch down and knead again for a couple of minutes. divide dough into 3 equal parts.
- roll each piece into a sausage shape 14 inches long.
- place each sausage onto a baking tray covered with baking paper. pinch one end of the 3 sausages together then plait into a braid. pinch the ends together. cover braid with a teatowel and rise again for 1 hour.
- heat oven to 180 Celsius.
- drizzle the braid with honey and sprinkle with the walnuts.
- cook for approximately 45 minutes till nicely browned and when it sounds hollow when tapped.
- ALTERNATIVELY. use a bread machine on a dough+rise setting or an electric mixer with a dough hook. I used the bread machine.
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