Cinnamon swirl bread
Fantastic cinnamon bread recipe for those afternoons where you just need a little something extra.
Equipment
- Kitchen stand mixer (optional)
- Bowl
- Measure
Ingredients
Dough
- 1 Egg
- 2 cups milk
- 1 pack yeast
- 7 cups flour
- 5 oz sugar
- 1 tbsp salt (yes a tablespoon :-) )
- 2 tbsp Ground cardamom
- 5 oz butter
Filling
- 4 oz sugar
- 4 oz butter
- 4 tbsp cinnamon (this gives an EXTRA strong taste of cinnamon - if you like it milder, consider going easy here)
Instructions
- Start by adding the yeast and milk your mixing bowl.
- Add the spices, then half the flour, then the butter and egg, and finally the rest of the flour.
- You want to keep this stirring on your machine for about 30 minutes - until your dough is loose from the sides of the mixing bowl.
- Leave your dough to rest for 1 hour, on the kitchen counter.
- Roll out the dough until its about 1 cm thick
- add a spread of butter, sprinkle that, first with sugar, then with a generous amount of cinnamon.
- fold the dough over itself, first ⅓ from the bottom, then over that the last ⅓. Leaving you with a long, piece of dough, where all the cinnamon/butter goodness is on the inside.
- Divide this dough into 12 strings. Take 3 strings and braid them together to form a bread.
- Place two breads on a baking tray and leave them to rest for another 2 hours.
- Lightly brush the breads with an egg. Bake them for about 14 minutes at 200 degrees Celsius. (400 F)