Basic Sweet dough for New Year’s Pretzel & Christmas Wreath Coffee Cake Nut Roll Recipe
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Ingredients: Basic sweet dough
3 pkgs.dry yeast
1 c. warm water
1/2 c. sugar
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. baking powder
1 1/4 c. buttermilk or sour milk
1/2 c. butter
3 eggs
6 c. flour
Nut Filling
1 lb. chopped pecans
cinnamon sugar
butter
Topping:
Confectioner’s sugar to form a glaze
1 tbsp. milk
1 tsp.vanilla
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Directions:KNEADING THE SWEET DOUGH AND LETTING IT RISE
1. Dissolve yeast in warm water and sugar & salt. Let it sit for a while and proof.
2. Heat milk and butter in pot on stove till milk begins to boil and rise slightly (scalded)
3. Cool milk mixture to warm to the touch before adding to the yeast mixture, otherwise it will kill the yeast.
4. Add milk, eggs and butter and baking powder to the yeast mixture, and whip with a whisk or hand beater.you can also blend on slow speed of your mixer but it is not necessary to do so. You can complete this by hand.
5. Stir in flour gradually until you form a soft ball slightly sticky to the touch. Knead flour into dough completely and place on floured board.
6. Continue kneading for about 5 minutes.
7. Grease a large mixing bowl and place the dough covered in the bowl with a warm towel to let rise until doubled in size, approximately 1 hour. I let the dough rise overnight and form into roll in the early morning.
MAKING THE COFFEE CAKE NUT ROLL
1. Roll dough out onto a floured surface into a 15 x 12 rectangle shape.
2. Brush dough with melted butter.(about 1/2 stick of butter)
3. Top with 1/2 c. white sugar
4. 1/2 c. brown sugar
5. 3 tbsp. cinnamon
6. 2-3 cups of chopped pecan nuts
7. Add Raisins if you like raisins. They are optional to this.
8. Roll up like a jelly roll and seal the ends. it should look like a long fat snake. Place on a greased cookie sheet. Begin to squeeze the roll to make it longer so as to form a beautiful twisted pretzel or a beautiful round wreath.
9. it is optional to cut the roll with scissors 1 inch apart but not all the way through. turn each slice on its side. Do NOT cut all the way through the dough because you want it held together nicely. The wreath looks good cut like this so it spreads out. I leave the pretzel whole without any slits in it so it raises up nice and puffy and full.
10. Let rise covered until doubled in size.
11. Bake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes. The dough should be golden brown on top when removed from oven.
Drizzle topping over the warm nut roll and sprinkle with more chopped nuts on top. It adds to the look of the Pretzel.
Christmas Wreath: Add green food coloring to your glaze. Add a few marichino cherries for decoration also. I add a bow also to the wreath. |
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Notes: This dough is very easy to work with for making the Beautiful Nut Roll turned into a Christmas wreath for Christmas Morning brunch and also the New Year’s Pretzel for New Year’s Eve celebration. This Pretzel is a German tradition that goes way back in the Lauer/ Ruffing/Meihl families. The New Year's Coffee cake Nut Roll is shaped like a twisted pretzel and is eaten for Good Luck in the New Year.It is served at midnight on New Year's Eve. with herring also.
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