Kringel – Estonian Sweet Bread
 
 
Ingredients
Dough
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 300 grams / 1½ ounces all purpose flour
  • 120 milliliters / 4 fluid ounces walnut milk
  • 20 grams / 0.7 ounces fresh yeast
  • ½ teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons sugar
  • 4 tablespoons walnut oil (regular cooking oil will also do just fine)
  • 40 grams / 1 ½ ounces raisin
Spread
  • 50 grams / 1.7 ounces sugar
  • 50 grams / 1.7 ounces butter
  • 2 tablespoons cinnamon
  • walnut pulp (optional)
  • 2 tablespoons chocolate sprinkles
  • 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
Tools
  • large mixing bowl
  • kitchen scale
  • wooden spoon
  • spoon
  • rolling pin
  • liquid measuring cup
  • dough knife (or a regular, very sharp knife)
  • pastry brush
  • cookie sheet
  • parchment paper
Instructions
  1. If you’re making your own walnut milk, you should soak the walnuts one night before.
  2. After you make the milk, turn the oven on 100ºC / 210ºF, and while you are preparing dough, put the walnut pulp to dry.
  3. Crush yeast into a bowl, add sugar and lukewarm milk and leave it while the yeast dissolves. Add flour slowly while stirring with wooden spoon. Add egg yolk, sugar, salt, oil and raisins and knead the dough well.
  4. Shape the dough into a ball, cover it with tea towel and leave it to rise for about an hour in a warm place. (The dough amount should double).
  5. Heat the oven to 180ºC / 350ºF.
  6. Melt butter on a low heat; add sugar, cinnamon and walnut pulp.
  7. Dust lightly working surface with flour, transfer the dough and roll it with the roller pin into a rectangle of 1 cm / o.4 in thickness.
  8. Brush evenly the butter spread on dough and then roll the dough lengthwise and cut it in a half (also lengthwise), but leave few cm/in of one end uncut. From that end plait the dough, folding one side of the dough over the other. Join both ends to form a circle.
  9. Line the cookie sheet with parchment paper and transfer the kringel onto cookie sheet.
  10. Bake the kringel about 20 -25 minutes, or until golden brown. While still hot, sprinkle the chocolate sprinkles over it. Leave to cool and dust with powdered sugar. Serve with hot cup of favorite coffee.
Recipe by JasminCookBook at https://jasmincookbook.com/kringel-estonian-sweet-bread/