Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, hefezopf (german bread). One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This Hefezopf Recipe is an adaptation of Luisa Weiss's "Rosinenzopf " recipe from her fantastic cookbook Classic German Baking. Don't be intimidated by the Yeast, or kneading. The dough comes together beautifully in the mixer… and as for the kneading? Hefezopf: The German Braided Bread in German Food & Recipes Hefezopf is a speciality hailing from the German lands but can be found in slight variations all over Europe.

Hefezopf (German Bread) is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Hefezopf (German Bread) is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook hefezopf (german bread) using 12 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Hefezopf (German Bread):

1. Take 500 grams Flour (Type 405 cake flour)
2. Prepare 21 grams Fresh yeast
3. Get 230 ml ◆Soy milk or milk
4. Prepare 50 grams ◆Sugar
5. Get 1 from 1 lemon Lemon zest
6. Get 70 grams Butter
7. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt
8. Take 1 plus 1/2 Egg, large
9. Get For glazing and garnishing
10. Prepare 1/2 Egg
11. Get 3 tbsp Sliced almonds
12. Make ready 1 Nib sugar

Food by Saskia van Deelen + Photography by Julia Cawley Here's the recipe for Quick Homemade Orange Campari Cranberry Jam! German Sweet Bread In this video I will show you a recipe for a sweet German bread named Hefezopf. Germans love this moist and chewy yeast bread for breakfast, spread with butter or with butter and jam. Sweet Braided Hazelnut Bread - German Nusszopf The Sweet Braided Hazelnut Bread or in German "Nusszopf" is just delicious.

Instructions to make Hefezopf (German Bread):

1. [If using a bread machine] Combine all the ingredients (except for the garnishing and glazing ingredients) in the bread making machine. Select the dough setting and press start. When the dough is done, skip to Step 6.
2. [If kneading by hand] In a bowl, combine warmed up milk and the ingredients marked with ◆. Mix until the yeast dissolves completely. Add the lemon zest and the eggs, then set aside.
3. Place the flour in a separate bowl and pour in the mixture from Step 2. Knead it for 5 minutes.
4. Add the butter and salt. Continue kneading about another 10 minutes. It might be tough to knead, but be patient and keep kneading.
5. [First proof] This dough is quite soft, but once the dough comes together, allow it to rise for 40-50 minutes. Cover it with tightly wrung out damp cloth to prevent it from drying up.
6. [Check with your finger] When the dough rises up to about twice the size that it was originally, dust your finger with flour and push it down to make a hole. If the dough stays down like a belly button, it is done rising.
7. Dust the working surface with flour for easier handling.
8. In this recipe, we are going to make a braid with 6 strands, so divide the dough into 6 parts and roll it out to 40-45 cm long. Start braiding.
9. Secure the beginning and the end of the braid tightly.
10. Place the dough onto a cookie sheet, cover it with a tightly wrung out damp cloth and allow it to rise for the second time. It will take about 30 minutes and the dough should be 1.5-2 times bigger than its original size.
11. It should look like this after the second rising. Preheat the oven to 200℃.
12. Glaze the dough with the beaten egg.
13. Decorate the dough with a plenty of almond slices and nib sugar.
14. Bake for 15 minutes at 200℃. Reduce the oven temperature to 180℃ and bake for another 15-20 minutes. Adjust the time if necessary.
15. This is the cross section of the bread. It is tasty as it is, but it is normally eaten by spreading on some butter and jam.
16. I made 2 smaller loaves with the same amount of the ingredients above. The left loaf has some cranberries in it. At Step 7, divide the dough into half and add 30 g of cranberries into one.
17. Here is a 6-strand braid.
18. [Chocolate and orange zopf] Substitute 20 g of flour with 20 g of coco powder. Use orange zest instead of lemon zest. Also substitute a part of soy milk with some squeezed orange juice. Bake it the same way.

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