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Cozonac

Name: Cozonac
Total time: 240 min
Yield: Serves 10
Cuisine: Romania
Ingredients: 500g Bread flour; 2 tsp Dry yeast; 200ml Milk; 3 Egg; 120g Sugar; 80g Butter; 1/2 tsp Salt; A pinch Vanilla Extract; A pinch Lemon zest; 200g Walnuts; 2 tbsp Cocoa powder; 50g Raisins

Dessert

⏱ 240 min

👥 Serves 10

Difficulty ⭐⭐⭐

A sweet bread swirled with walnut and cocoa filling — essential to Romanian Christmas and Easter.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Cozonac is a brioche-like sweet bread rich in eggs and butter, baked in every home at Christmas and Easter. The dough is rolled thin, rolled up with a filling of walnuts, cocoa, and sugar, twisted, and baked in a loaf pan. The beautiful swirl revealed when sliced is a point of pride, and loaves are given as gifts to relatives and neighbors.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On the eve of Easter, loaf after loaf of cozonac comes out of grandmother's oven and a sweet aroma fills the house.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 10)

Bread flour 500g
Dry yeast 2 tsp
Milk 200ml
Egg 3
Sugar 120g
Butter 80g
Salt 1/2 tsp
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Lemon zest A pinch
Walnuts 200g
Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
Raisins 50g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Dissolve the yeast and a little sugar in warm milk, add the bread flour, 2 eggs, 80g sugar, salt, vanilla, and lemon zest, and knead.
Gradually add the melted butter and knead until smooth, then let rise for 1½ hours.
Finely chop the walnuts and mix with the cocoa, remaining sugar, and 1 egg white to make the filling.
Divide the dough in two, roll each into a rectangle, spread with the filling and raisins, and roll up from the edge.
Twist the two rolls together, place in a loaf pan, rise 1 hour, and brush with egg yolk.
Bake at 170°C for 45–50 minutes.

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