NUTELLA TEAR AND SHARE: Baking

NUTELLA TEAR AND SHARE

You will need:

• 400g bread flour
• 75g sugar
• 2 teaspoons of dried yeast
• 1 pinch of salt
• 30g unsalted meted butter
• 180g warmed milk
• 2 egg yolks (keep the whites)
• A couple tbsp of nutella

Method:

• Pre heat your oven to 180'C 
• Add the flour, salt, sugar and yeast into a bowl. Make sure you put the yeast on a sepreate side of the bowel to stop the salt and yeast activating together.
• Then add the melted butter (you can do this is a microwave) and the warmed milk.
• Then add the 2 egg yolks and mix all together until it has formed a dough.
• Now it is time to knead your dough, which if i'm honest, is basically a muscle workout which you will be doing for 15 minutes so enjoy!
• You will want the dough to become elasticated and soft enough so that when you press a hole in it with your finger, it bounces back into its original shape.
  
• Then, pop this dough into a bowl and cover it with cling film. It is ideal to then leave it to rise in a warm environment (i used my airing cupboard) for 3-4 hours. I know this sounds like a long rise but it will give you a really nice light and fluffy bread in the end!

-4 hours later-

• Now you can get your dough out of the bowl and cut it into three sections. 
• Take one section and roll it out thin enough to fit a plate on it. 
• Then smother nutella in the area where the plate went.
  
• Roll out the second ball of dough and then put this over the top the first layer
• Put the plate on top again to mark where the nutella on the previous layer went and then cover that area with nutella.
• Roll out the third ball and pop this over the second layer.
• Put the plate on top however this time leave it on top and cut around the plate to remove excess dough that was not covered in nutella.

• Now, place a cup in the center of the circle and push down slightly to make an indent in the dough.
• Cut the dough into quarters but do not cut into the small circle you just made in the middle. Cut the quarters you just made in half and then half again so you end up with something looking like this.
  
• Now, as seen in the picture, you need to take two pieces and twist them away from each other twice. 
• keep repeating this until you have twisted all sections.
• Once you have done this, take the ends of each pair you twisted and join them together at the ends.
• Use the egg whites that you saved from the used egg yolks to brush over and make the bread look shiny and then leave this to rise for another 20 minutes.
• Once it has risen, cook in the oven for 15 minutes and then enjoooooooooooooooy. p.s it may seem like this takes forever to make but it's totally worth it;)