Cozonac - Romanian Sweet Bread with Walnuts

A very good Sweet Bread, with a lot of filling, soft and fluffy. I used the same dough recipe as for the Crescent Rolls with Jam.

Ingredients
Butter
100 g
Egg
2 pieces
Bakers yeast
50 g
Sugar
100 g
for the dough
Cow milk
200 ml
Salt
0.25 tsp
White flour
600 g
less or more
Walnuts
500 g
Cacao powder
4 tbsp
Sugar
5 tbsp
for filling
Powdered milk
3 tbsp
it is not a mandatory ingredient
Step by step
Step 1

Prepare the dough first:

Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat. After extinguishing the fire, allow to cool.

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Step 2

With a spoon, mix the yeast with the eggs and the salt well, until it is homogenous.

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Step 3

Pour the sugar and milk into the hot melted butter, then mix well.

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Step 4

Add milk + sugar + butter to eggs with yeast.

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Step 5

Add flour and knead a soft dough that does not stick to your hands.

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Step 6

Cover the dough bowl with cling film and leave in a warm place for about an hour, until it increases in volume twice.

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Step 7

Divide the dough into 3 parts.

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Step 8

Then cut each part in 2 and form a total of 6 dough balls.

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Step 9

Chop the walnuts well.

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Step 10

Add the cocoa powder, stir.

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Step 11

Then the sugar, mix.

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Step 12

And powdered milk, mix well.

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Step 13

With a little milk or boiled water, dilute the walnut composition - add a little and mix until it becomes a homogeneous and thick composition, like a jam.

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Step 14

Grease the cake trays with oil.

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Step 15

Each ball, in turn, spread it with the facet in a thin and oval sheet.

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Step 16

Put 2 tablespoons of the filling and spread it evenly over the entire surface of the sheet, except on the edges.

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Step 17

Roll the sheet, pressing the edges dry, so that the filling does not come out. Also spread and roll a sheet of dough.

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Step 18

These 2 rolls are woven in a spiral shape.

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Step 19

This will be a cake, which you put in a baking tray prepared beforehand, and leave it in a warm place to grow well.

In this way, form 2 more cakes.

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Step 20

After about an hour, when the cozonacs have grown well, grease them with a brush, with egg yolk - and put them in the oven at medium temperature.

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Step 21

When they brown well, take them out of the oven and let them cool a little.

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Step 22

Then take them out of the trays and let them cool well for a few hours, or if you do them in the evening, leave them until morning. They will be much better and fluffier.

Good appetite!

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Quantity: 2 kg (3 bread)
Prep time:
120 min
Difficulty: difficult
Ready in: 80 min