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Lazy Liquid-Batter Easter Bread

Easter bread made with a liquid batter mixed with a spoon - no kneading, with raisins, cranberries and turmeric.
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 35 minutes
Rising time 1 hour 30 minutes
Total Time 2 hours 25 minutes
Servings: 3 loaves
Course: Easter kulich
Cuisine: Home cooking

Ingredients
  

For activating the yeast
  • 200 ml warm milk
  • 5 g dry yeast
  • 2 tbsp wheat flour
  • 1 tbsp sugar
Batter
  • 240 g wheat flour
  • 1 egg
  • 60 g sugar
  • 40 g butter
  • 1 pinch vanillin
  • 1 pinch salt
  • 0.5 tsp turmeric
  • 100 g raisins and cranberries

Method
 

  1. Pour the warm milk into a bowl, add the yeast, sugar and flour, mix well with a whisk. The mixture should become bubbly and free of lumps.
  2. In another bowl, mix the egg, sugar, melted butter, a pinch of salt, vanillin and turmeric until smooth.
  3. Add the yeast mixture, stir well again with a spoon or whisk, sift in the flour and mix the batter until smooth.
  4. Cover with plastic wrap and leave in a warm spot for 1 hour to rise.
  5. Add the dried fruit to the risen batter, stir and spoon it into the tins, filling them to almost half. Leave in a warm spot until the loaves rise nicely.
  6. Bake for 30-35 minutes in an oven preheated to 175-180°C. Let the finished loaves cool and decorate.

Notes

The recipe makes 3 small loaves in 9 cm diameter tins.