Squash swirls with chocolate filling

Name: Squash swirls with chocolate filling
Prep time: 35 min
Total time: 175 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 350 g zopf flour; 50 g sugar; ½ tsp vanilla sugar; ¼ cube yeast; 1 tsp sugar; 150 g icing sugar; 1 tsp maple syrup; 100 g pumpkin puree; ½ dl milk; 1 eggs; 65 g butter; 40 g cream cheese; 1 pinch salt; ¼ tsp cinnamon; 100 g dark chocolate

desserts Baking sweet

Total: 2 hr 55 min. | Active: 35 min.

vegetarian

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October reminds me of three things: fresher air, the joy of treating myself to something delicious and invigorating, and squash. I have combined these three elements to create one truly delicious dessert – sweet swirls with chocolate filling and maple syrup icing. You don't taste the squash in the swirls, but it makes them wonderfully soft.

Sarah - Fragola & Limone

Ingredients

for 12 pieces

Yeast dough
350 g	zopf flour
1 pinch	salt
50 g	sugar
¼ tsp	vanilla sugar
¼ tsp	cinnamon
¼ cube	yeast (approx. 10 g, crumbled
100 g	pumpkin puree
½ dl	milk
1	egg
30 g	butter, soft

Filling
100 g	dark chocolate, chopped
25 g	butter
1 tsp	sugar

Icing
10 g	butter, soft
40 g	cream cheese
150 g	icing sugar
1 tsp	maple syrup
¼ tsp	vanilla sugar

How it's done

Yeast dough

In a bowl, mix the flour with all the other ingredients up to and including the yeast. Add the squash puree, milk, egg and butter, knead to form a soft, smooth dough. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1½ hrs. until doubled in size.

Filling

Place the chocolate, butter and sugar in a thin-sided bowl and suspend over a gently simmering bain-marie, ensuring that the bowl does not touch the water. Melt the chocolate and stir until smooth.

To shape the swirls

On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough into a rectangle (approx. 35 × 45 cm). Spread the filling on top, leaving a border of approx. 1 cm all the way around. Roll up the dough from the long edge. Without exerting pressure, cut the dough into approx. 12 slices of equal thickness using a bread knife, place on a baking tray lined with baking paper, leave to rise at room temperature for a further 30 mins.

To bake

Approx. 20 mins. in the centre of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove, allow to cool slightly.

Icing

Mix the butter, cream cheese, icing sugar, maple syrup and vanilla sugar, continue to mix until you have a smooth icing. Brush the warm swirls with the icing, leave to cool.

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