Yeast Men
A recipe featuring fresh baking ingredients. Try this and other recipes from Spoonsparrow!
Ingredients
- 500 g flour
- 1 cube yeast
- 75 g sugar
- 250 ml lukewarm milk
- 50 g softened butter
- 1 egg
- 1 egg yolk
- 2 tbsp milk
- almond kernels
- raisins
- nuts
Instructions
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1.
Sift the flour into a bowl and make a well in the center.
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2.
Dissolve the yeast in some lukewarm milk, stir in 1 tbsp sugar and pour into the well; dust with flour and let rise covered for 30 minutes. Then knead in the remaining milk, sugar, butter, and egg until smooth, cover and rise for 1 hour. Knead again, set aside a bit of dough, shape bodies and heads from the rest. Separate arms and legs by cutting them off the torso as desired.
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3.
Shape additional decorations such as hats and scarves from the leftover dough.
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4.
Whisk the yolk with milk and brush the yeast men with it.
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5.
Attach the decorations, raisins for eyes and buttons, then brush again with yolk mixture and let rise about 30 minutes. Bake on the second rack of a preheated oven at 200°C (400°F) for approximately 30 minutes. Cool on a wire rack.
