June’s a crazy wedding month, which means I had a hard time finding spare time to do this two-day challenge! Brad and I ended up making the Danish Braid at my parents’ house, and I used my father’s point-and-shoot (which is why the photos look different than other months!). Even though the preparation photos don’t look as tasty, the end result was magnificent.
Here’s the thing - it involves spreading 2 sticks of butter over dough, and folding this dough over and over. The proofing time between each set of folds was a 1/2 hour, so it took all night to finish! This is me spreading on the butter:
Here’s the dough after the first “turn”. Check out all that butter in the middle.
Here’s the braid after all is said and done on the second day, when it’s ready to go in the oven with its delicious apple filling:
And here it is out of the oven:
Yum. Total yum. I forgot to halve the dough, so the proportion of filling-to-dough isn’t quite right. Still just as tasty though.
Today’s the Daring Bakers posting day, which means I won’t be posting tomorrow (Monday). Check back on Tuesday for a slideshow of this weekend’s amazing bike ride wedding!
8 Comments
Beautiful braid! Looks delicious!
you did an amazing job! your braid looks so good :)
And it tasted as delish as it looks :-)
Oh my sweet LORD you did a great job on this! That braid is perfection!
-Susan of http://doughmesstic.blogspot.com
Lovely braid and I love the close up of the filling!
Oooh this looks like it turned out delicious! I’m glad you found time to complete the challenge.
Your braid looks amazing, so yummy. Great job!
Looks great! You did a nice job.