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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Eastern European >> Russian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Cream butter and sugar until smooth. | 2. Add vanilla and slightly beaten egg yolks and mix about 2 minutes until fluffy. | 3. Add flour and yeast and stir slightly. | 4. Add the milk and mix on low speed to make a soft dough, adding flour as needed or milk. | 5. Knead for 4 minutes before tipping onto counter. | 6. Stretch the dough into a rectangle and fold letter style top to bottom and side to side. | 7. Place dough in straight sided container, cover and rest 15 minutes. | 8. Stretch and fold again, resting 15 more minutes. | 9. Allow dough to rise 1.5 times its volume to double its volume. | 10. Roll dough out to a 12 inch by 12 inch rectangle. | 11. Make filling by placing frozen chocolate chips and cinnamon in a food processor and process to a grandular consistency. Add cold butter and pulse until well mixed. | 12. Spread mixture on dough, leaving a 1/4 inch rim uncoated. | 13. Roll dough into a rope like cylinder without stretching the length beyond 15 inches. | 14. Cut the rope into 2 15 inch half-cylinders and braid to form a loaf, folding in the ends. Place in an 8 inch x 4.5 inch loaf pan well oiled. | 15. Preheat oven to 350F while letting loaf rise to 1.5 times its volume. | 16. Brush with egg white glaze if desired and bake for 50 minutes to an hour and 10 minutes, until the internal temperature is 180F to 200°F. | 17. To prevent over browning due to the sugar in this recipe, cover loosely for at least half the time with aluminum foil while baking. | 18. Let cool completely before serving. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
purpose flour	260	g		231.4	0.0	51.48	1.3
yeast	11			122.1	13.4772	15.7608	0.594
buttermilk	96	cup		-	-	-	-
butter	48	cup	unsalted	2736.0	125.712	85.488	230.4
sugar	48	cup		38687.04	9676.608	0.0	0.0
vanilla extract	4			48.38399999999999	2.1252	0.0101	0.0101
salt	4			-	-	-	-
egg yolk	48	g		154.56	1.7232	7.6128	12.7392
chocolate chip	145	g	semi-sweet	653.95	97.8605	8.6565	25.9695
cinnamon	4	teaspoon	ground	-	-	-	-
butter	32			2736.0	125.712	85.488	230.4

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.