Sweet Bread Easter Wreath

– Place flour into a bowl and make a mold in the middle.
– Mix yeast with some sugar and warm milk, then add it into the mold and mix it with some flour (use finger).
– Add remaining sugar, cardamom, salt, milk, butter and 3 eggs, knead until you get a smooth dough (not sticky or firm); maybe you need some more milk.
– Place dough on a baking board with some flour and knead for about 6-8 minutes, place back into the bowl, cover it with a moist fabric and let it rest for 1 hour until volume has doubled.
– Meanwhile take a card board roll like from an empty kitchen roll, cut it in 3 pieces and wrap them with aluminum foil.
– Place baking paper on a baking tray.
– Now knead dough again briefly and divide it in 3 parts which you roll to 3 rolls of 65cm length.
– Make a braid out of the 3 dough rolls and place it on the baking tray.
– Press the cardboard rolls on 3 spots into the dough. Best is to place when the ends of the braid are getting together.
– Let dough rise again (place the whole tray it into a clean plastic bag and knot it or cover it with a moist fabric) for about 30 min. Volume needs to be visibly more.
– Pre-heat oven to 180 c or 360 F; beat 1 egg and add 1 tbsp milk, mix well. Spread over the wreath and bake it for 30 minutes until it shows a golden color.
– Place it on a baking grid (in using a cake shovel), take out the 3 rolls and replace them with 3 hard boiled and colored eggs.

Happy Easter!

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