Mucenici

Ingredients

Quantities for 12 servings.

• 600 g Flour
• 280 ml Warm milk
• 10 g Dry yeast
• 100 g Sugar
• 100 g Butter
• 2 piece Eggs
• 200 g Honey
• 200 g Walnuts, ground
• 1 piece Lemon zest
• 1 tsp Vanilla
• 1 tsp Salt

Method

1. Dissolve the yeast with a spoon of sugar in the warm milk and leave it to foam.
2. Knead a dough from the flour, sponge, eggs, sugar, zest, vanilla, salt and softened butter.
3. Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour and a quarter, until doubled.
4. Divide the dough into twelve and roll each into a forty-centimetre rope.
5. Twist each rope into a figure of eight, joining the ends, and set it on a tray.
6. Prove them thirty minutes and bake at 180 °C for twenty minutes, until golden.
7. Brush the hot mucenici with honey and cover them thickly with ground walnuts.