Make dough in a stand mixer: Combine the sponge, sour cream, butter, egg, sugar, salt and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer.
Stir well to combine, loosely cover with plastic wrap, and set aside to proof for 10 to 15 minutes. Make sponge: In a small bowl, combine the sponge ingredients. Pearl sugar* or sparkling white sugar for sprinklingġ/3 cup (2 1/2 ounces) cream cheese, softenedĢ tablespoons (1/2 ounce) unbleached all-purpose flourġ/4 cup (2 ounces) homemade (recipe below) or prepared lemon curd
How could it not?ġ/4 cup (1 ounce) unbleached all-purpose flourĦ tablespoons (3 ounces) sour cream or yogurtġ/4 cup (4 tablespoons or 2 ounces) unsalted butter, softenedĢ large eggs, 1 beaten for dough, 1 beaten with 1 teaspoon water for brushing breadĢ 1/2 cups (10 5/8 ounces) unbleached all-purpose flour All you need to know is that this recipe is a delight and it will steal the spotlight, even from a crepe cake, wherever you put it out. I made a lot of changes to the original recipe, because I’m like that I halved it because the original recipe would make two huge braids, and even my family couldn’t go through that I swapped some yogurt for sour cream, which I think bakes up better in doughs and allows you to get by with just one tub of “extras” needed I’ve added a curd recipe but confess I didn’t not use it this time, buying a jar instead I rewrote the directions so that you won’t need to spend 30 minutes trying to transfer the quickly-sticking dough off your counter and a bunch of other more boring things. Three years ago: Raspberry-Topped Lemon Muffins Two years ago: Cherry Cornmeal Upside-Down Cake One year ago: Almond Raspberry Layer Cake
#Lemon braid plus#
The fillings could be any kind of fruit, or chocolate, or a nut paste like marzipan, or a nut paste plus chocolate plus fruit plus… Anyone want to babysit so I can make this again? You know, this wasn’t my first yeasted coffee cake, or even my first twisty bready centerpiece, but I feel like this recipe has opened up a whole new world of breakfast baked goods. Please try to contain your envy.īut don’t worry, my directions will spare you that near-disaster but keep what counts: lemon curd, sweet cream cheese, a stunning braid that’s remarkably easy to pull off and a sweet, buttery yeasted dough that bakes to a gorgeous burnished brown, studded with crunchy sugar. One can even braid a sweet yeasty bread and discover the directions on the recipe used forget to mention that your soft dough will be impossible to transfer from your work surface to the parchment-lined baking sheet, call in one’s husband to help and together you two can spend the better part of a half hour getting the braid off the counter, mostly intact, without worrying that a little weeble-wobble in the next room is chewing on laptop wires (again).
How else will you learn all of the things you can do in the two minutes he is occupied with a toy and may not see his other favorite possession, Mama’s Undivided Attention, sneaking off, stage left? Hit the loo! Get a glass of water! Put hair in ponytail! Balance your checkbook! Solve the Greek financial crisis.Īnd with a whole day, while the baby “weekends” with his grandparents? One can out-brunch all of their earlier brunch efforts. I know this is the kind of stuff that makes people without children roll their eyes, or at least would have made me roll my eyes anytime prior to eight months ago, but seriously, nothing, nothing makes you a more productive person than having a baby.
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