Buchty

Try some Buchty with your favourite fillings.

Ingredients:Yields 24 buchty

700g		all purpose flour
150g		unsalted butter, room temperature
50g+ 1tbsp		sugar
1 1/2cups		milk
30g (15g)		yeast (dried)
1 pinch		salt
3		egg yolks, room temperature
2tbsp		lemon juice
1tbsp		lemon zest
10g		vanilla sugar

Fillings

1. 100g		cottage cheese
2tbsp		icing sugar (confectioners’)
2. 5tbsp		poppy seeds
1tbsp		milk
1 1/25tbsp		icing sugar (confectioners’)
3. 100g		jam

icing sugar (confectioners’)		for dusting
1 egg		for coating

Directions: 1

In a small bowl mix 1 tablespoon sugar into luke warm milk and add the yeast.
Leave for 10 minutes and let the yeast rise.

2

In a large bowl place flour, sugar, vanilla sugar and salt and mix well.

3

Beat egg yolks in the small bowl with yeast and pour into the flour.
Then mix until all flour is combined.

4

Add diced room temperature butter and blend.

5

Add lemon juice and lemon zest and knead until smooth.

6

Place it into ceramic or glass bowl and cover with a clean cloth.
Let the dough sit in a warm space(oven or microwave…) for a hour until double in size.
Prepare fillings while the dough is rising. Mix cottage cheese and sugar and poppy seeds, sugar and milk.

7

Punch the dough and remove the excess air.
Divide the dough into 24 equal parts.
Roll the dough and place the filling and seal the edge.

8

Set the dough on baking tray and cover with a clean cloth for 15 minutes.

9

Brush surface of buchty with beaten egg.
Bake on the bottom rack in the preheated oven
at 150°C for 30 minutes.

10

Remove the buchty from oven and cool on a wire rack.

Dobrou chuť!

Dust icing sugar on the surface.

Notes:

This recipe yields 24 buchty in a 22x32cm tray.
If the dough is too soft, add flour a little more.
3 most popular fillings are in this recipe. There are another fillings
like cottage cheese with raisins and chocolate.

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