for 12 pieces

Dough

500 g	zopf flour
80 g	sugar
1 ½ tsp	salt
⅓ cube	yeast (approx. 15 g), crumbled
2 ¼ dl	milk
50 g	butter, cut into pieces
1	egg

Cinnamon butter

100 g	butter, soft
100 g	cane sugar
1 tsp	cinnamon

Apples

20 g	butter
250 g	apples, cut into cubes
100 g	cane sugar
20 g	white flour
½ tsp	bourbon vanilla powder
½ tsp	salt

Filling

2 tbsp

milk

To bake

a little

icing sugar, to dust

How it's done

Dough

Mix the flour, sugar and salt in the food processor bowl, mix in the yeast. Add the milk, butter and egg, knead to form a soft, smooth dough using the dough hook on the food processor. Cover the dough with cling film and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1 hr. Chill the dough for approx. 12 hrs.

Cinnamon butter

Mix the butter, sugar and cinnamon, set aside.

Apples

Heat the butter in a pan. Add the apples, sugar, flour, vanilla and cinnamon, simmer for approx. 15 mins., stirring occasionally until the mixture thickens.

To shape

Place the dough on a lightly floured surface, roll out into a rectangle (approx. 40 x 50 cm). Spread the reserved cinnamon butter lengthwise over one half of the dough, then fold the other half over the top. Cut the dough crosswise into 12 strips of equal width. Twist the strips several times, tie into knots, place on two baking trays lined with baking paper. Cover and leave to rise at room temperature for approx. 1 1/2 hrs.

Filling

Using the back of a spoon, make a well in the middle of each bun, spoon the apple mixture into the wells. Brush the buns with milk.

To bake

Approx. 15 mins. per tray in an oven preheated to 190 °C (convection). Remove from the oven, leave the buns to cool on a rack, dust with icing sugar.

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