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Cinnamon stick with marzipan

Basically, this pastry is, to quote my husband, "just a cinnamon roll, just a little different." That's actually true!

And also just the right thing to snuggle up on the sofa at home when the weather is uncomfortable with warm yeast biscuits with lots of cinnamon and a delicious hot drink...

Ingredients

80 g butter

300 ml milk

1/2 pack dry yeast

500 g flour

50 g brown sugar

1 pinch of salt

1/2 tsp cardamom

1 tsp tasteless oil

80 g soft butter

100 g brown sugar

2 tsp cinnamon

1 pinch of ground vanilla

150 g marzipan

1 egg yolk

2 - 3 tsp powdered sugar

Preparation

Slowly heat the butter and milk in a saucepan and stir again and again until a fairly uniform liquid is formed.

Add the dry yeast, mix thoroughly and let stand for about 5 minutes.

In a bowl, mix the flour with the sugar, salt and cardamom...

...and add the butter-milk-yeast mixture in portions...

...and knead thoroughly until a smooth dough is formed (if necessary, add a little flour if the dough is still too sticky). Form a ball out of the dough.

Add the oil to the bowl, roll the dough ball through the oil and then cover and let it rise for about 1 hour until the dough has doubled in volume.

For the filling, mix the butter with the brown sugar and cinnamon.

Then cut the marzipan into pieces and mix it with the butter-sugar-cinnamon mixture.

Then roll out the dough to about the size of a baking tray.

Spread the middle third of the dough with the filling.

Then cut the dough evenly into diagonal strips on the right and left and place them alternately over the filling on both sides.

Cover and let rest for another 30 minutes.

After about 20 minutes, switch on the oven and preheat it to 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat.

Whisk the egg yolk and brush it on the cinnamon stick, then sprinkle with the powdered sugar.

Bake in a preheated oven at approx. 350 °F (180 °C) upper and lower heat for about 20 to 25 minutes until the top is golden brown.

Take the pastry out of the oven, let it cool briefly and then enjoy it lukewarm.

[Translated from here.]