Viennese Braid

Description

In Romanian: Colac vienez

Ingredients

• sweet bread dough

Filling

• 6 oz / 150 g butter
• 6 oz / 150 g confectioner's sugar
• vanilla
• 3 tablespoons cubed sugared orange peel

Directions

1. Mix the butter with the sugar and vanilla until creamy.
2. Refrigerate.
3. Roll a square shaped sheet of dough, about a finger thick.
4. Then spread the butter mixture, uniformly, over the dough.
5. Sprinkle the orange peel on top.
6. Then fold the dough three ways (three-fold), so that the right third comes over the left third.
7. Cut it lengthwise in three equal strips and braid.
8. Join the ends securely and arrange the braid in a round pan that was covered with buttered paper.
9. Let it rise a little in the pan and then set into the oven, at low heat, until well risen, then at medium heat.
10. Remove from the pan after is has cooled off.