Recipe for Traditional Romanian Easter Bread

Traditionally, in Bulgaria and Romania, it is customary to prepare fragrant Kozunak for Easter and Christmas. This one yeastcake Or bread, in fact, an alternative to the well-known kulich.

Its preparation has many variations. Today's edition. "Site" Share one of the time-tested recipes for this delicious pastry!

Sweet yeast cake The main ingredients of Kozunak are flour, milk, sugar, eggs, butter and yeast. It can be straight shaped or just flatbread, simple or wicker. It happens with or without filling. For filling, peanuts, poppy, raisins, rahat-lukum, fresh cottage cheese, cocoa, marmalade and, of course, all sorts of their combinations are wonderful.

Today we offer you one of the many recipes for this sweet. You can experiment endlessly with it to your taste.

Test ingredients

500g flour
3 tbsp sugar
20g fresh yeast
75g butter
2 eggs
180 ml of milk

The ingredients

5 tbsp cocoa powder
8 tbsp sugar
100g ground peanut
5 tbsp milk

Preparation

First, we dilute yeast and sugar in warm milk.
We sow flour into the bowl and pour milk with yeast into it. We're mixing it up.
We drive eggs, add salt and melted oil. Mix the dough and leave it for 1 hour in a warm place to fit.
The filling is prepared no less easily. To do this, simply mix well all these ingredients to homogeneity.
After this time, we roll the dough, making it a rectangle. We put stuffing on it. Long edges are wrapped inwards towards the middle, forming a loaf. Put in oiled deep rectangular shape for bread or muffin. Let the test come up within 20 minutes. Then send to bake in the oven heated to 180 ° C for 40 minutes. Ready to check with a toothpick.