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Prepare yourself to succumb to the charms of a delicious dessert from Europe’s most fertile and passionate region: levain bread with dried apricots, a subtle blend of butter, dried apricots, and apricot jam that will make you reserve a spot at the table for more. Originally from this rich land teeming with culinary traditions, this levain bread is one of the most appreciated in European countries.
👥 Servings : 4 | ⭐ Rating : ★★★☆☆ (3/5)
🥘 Ingredients
- 80g softened butter
- 1 egg
- 450g flour
- 100g powdered sugar
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 1 tablespoon of baker’s yeast
- Warm milk to gather the dough
- A pinch of salt
- Filling
- Apricot jam
- 3 tablespoons of dried apricots
👨🍳 Instructions
- Soak the dried apricots in a bowl of water, then let them dry on a towel.
- Dissolve the baker’s yeast in 2 tablespoons of warm milk.
- Sift the flour into a large bowl, add the softened butter cut into pieces and work the mixture by lightly rubbing your hands together until you get a sandy consistency. Create a well in the center, add the dissolved yeast, sugar, vanilla sugar, salt, beaten egg, mix everything, add warm milk and knead the dough for 35 minutes until you obtain a soft and smooth dough. Shape it into a ball and place it in a large floured terrine, let it rise for 30 minutes in a warm place.
- Roll out the dough on a floured work surface and spread a layer of apricot jam over the entire surface of the dough. Distribute the dried apricots, roll the dough into a cylinder shape by rolling it up on itself along its length to form a large sausage. Cut it into pieces of a thickness of 3 cm and arrange them side by side in a buttered mold. Let it rise for 1 hour and 30 minutes in a warm place.
- Bake in an oven preheated to 180°C for 25 minutes.
🏷 Tags: Butter Cakes World Desserts Flour Toast Powdered Sugar Egg Baker’s Yeast
