Homemade Braided Cinnamon-Raisin Bread

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August 19, 2018 • 0 • min read

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Make your breakfast sweetness in addition to soft alongside this braided cinnamon in addition to raisin bread.

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Ingredients: serving 8

2 cups (300 gr) of breadstuff flour, addition a few tablespoons for the counter
1 tablespoon (12 gr) of dry out yeast
1 loving cup (250 ml) of milk, at room temperature
1/4 loving cup (half stick - 55 gr)of unsalted butter
1 egg
1 teaspoon (4 gr) of salt
1/4 loving cup (50 gr) sugar, addition some 2 tablespoons for sprinkling on exceed of the bread
1/4 loving cup (40 gr) raisins
ground cinnamon to sprinkle on top

Preparation time: One hour, addition 4 hours inactive
Directions:
1. Warm upwards the milk slightly inwards the microwave, peculiarly if it's mutual coldness out of the refrigerator. Set the microwave for nearly 20 seconds. Dissolve the yeast inwards the milk, whisking well.

2. In a large bowl, add together the flour in addition to the milk alongside the yeast. Mix good using a spoon at first, in addition to thence your finger next. When the dough comes together, motion it to a build clean counter in addition to knead until the dough is soft in addition to elastic. Add a tablespoon of milk if the dough is likewise difficult to knead, or a flake of flour if likewise sticky.

3. Shape into a ball, in addition to house it dorsum inwards the bowl. Cover alongside plastic roll in addition to a kitchen towel. Place inwards the oven (turned off) for at to the lowest degree ii hours.

4. Melt the butter inwards the microwave. Set the timer for alone fifteen seconds, stir, in addition to thence some other fifteen seconds. Let the butter cool down. Add the melted butter, the egg, salt, in addition to saccharide to the dough. Mix alongside a spoon (or your finger if it helps). It volition stimulate got a flake of work, but the dough volition larn dorsum to live smoothen in addition to uniform. Softer than before. Cover again, in addition to permit it ascension for some other yoke of hours.

5. Add the raisins to the dough. Make certain yous sprinkle some at the fourth dimension some the dough, thence that they don't halt upwards all inwards the same spot.

6. On a floured counter, cutting the dough inwards 8 equal parts. Roll each into a thick rectangle. Brush alongside milk in addition to sprinkle alongside saccharide in addition to soil cinnamon. Cut the rectangle lengthwise inwards half, but non all the means to the end. As shown inwards the picture, twist the ii ropes twice. Pinch the halt to seal. Place on a baking sail covered alongside a baking silicone mat (or parchment paper). Repeat alongside all pieces.