ingredients
Bread Dough
- 15 mlmilk(in a warm condition)
- 25 gramhoney
- 2.8 gramyeast
- 1 pc(s)egg yolk
- 160 grambread flour
- 2 gramsalt
- 18 gramsugar
- 28 grambutter(in a room temprature)
- 10 gramflour(as needed, for dusting)
- 5 grambutter(as needed, for brushing)
- 10 grambeaten egg(as needed, for egg wash)
- 5 grammilk(as needed, for egg wash)
Honey Glaze
- 25 grambutter(in a room temprature)
- 25 gramhoney
instructions
Making the Dough
- Put the milk in a bowl and heat it in the microwave at 300 watts for 1 minute or until 100 degrees celsius.
- Add honey, yeast, and yolk to the milk. Whisk until everything’s fully incorporated.
- In a bowl, add bread flour, sugar and salt. Mix until combined.
- Make a well inside of your bowl of dry ingredients and add the wet ingredients.
- Use your spatula and mix until it forms a tacky dough.
- Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and rest the dough for 20 minutes.
- Now add the butter you prepared for the bread dough and mix again.
- Place your dough onto a work surface and knead the dough until smooth. Shape it into a ball.
- Take the butter you prepared for brushing and brush the bowl with it (the softened butter).
- Place the ball of dough in the bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let it rise for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
- Punch your dough to get rid of any large air pockets.
- Shape the dough into a ball and weigh it.
- Divide the dough into 6 equal parts.
- Shape the dough into individual balls.
- Take some plastic wrap and cover the top of the dough and let it rest for 15 mins.
Making the glaze
- Add butter and honey to a bowl and mix it with a spoon.
Continue Making the Dough
- When your bench rest is over, dust your dough with some flour and flatten them.
- Using your fingertips, spread the dough out to make it a rectangle.
- Dust some flour on your hand and roll and stretch the dough to make them longer (About 15 cm long).
- Take 3 pieces and take one end, and pinch them together. Now you have 3 sections: left, right, and middle. Now take the right section over the middle, the left section over the middle and middle section to the right. Continue this pattern until you reach the end. Pinch the ends together and tuck them under. Do this with the remaining 3 pieces.
- Prepare your baking tray and place baking paper/mat on it.
- Place the dough on your baking tray and cover with plastic wrap. Let it rise for 1 hour.
- Preheat the oven to 230 degrees celsius.
- Add beaten egg and milk and mix. Brush the egg wash on your dough until fully covered.
- Bake the braids for 15 minutes.
- Right out of the oven, take your honey glaze and brush generously on your braids until fully covered.
- Now you can enjoy this freshly warm out of the oven with your favourite cup of tea or coffee!
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butter
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honey