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Kringel

Name: Kringel
Total time: 150 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Estonia
Ingredients: 400g Bread flour; 6g Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 1 Egg; 100g Butter; 100g Sugar; 1 tbsp Cinnamon powder; 1/2 tsp Salt; To taste Powdered sugar

Dessert

⏱ 150 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

Dough rolled with cinnamon sugar and braided into a figure eight — an Estonian celebration sweet bread.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kringel is a braided bread essential at Estonian birthdays and celebrations: yeast dough is spread with butter and cinnamon sugar, rolled up, cut lengthwise, and twisted into a figure eight or wreath before baking. Its showy shape reveals layers along the cut sides, and it's served to guests with coffee.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At an Estonian family birthday, a big wreath of cinnamon bread sits at the center of the table and is cut amid the aroma of coffee.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Bread flour 400g
Dry yeast 6g
Milk 200ml
Egg 1
Butter 100g
Sugar 100g
Cinnamon powder 1 tbsp
Salt 1/2 tsp
Powdered sugar To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Knead the bread flour, yeast, 30g sugar, salt, warm milk, egg, and 30g butter and let rise 1 hour.
Roll the dough to 30×50cm, spread with soft butter, and scatter with the remaining sugar and cinnamon.
Roll up from the long side and cut in half lengthwise.
Twist the halves together cut side up, shape into a figure eight or wreath, and rest 30 minutes.
Bake at 190°C for 25 minutes and dust with powdered sugar.

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