Mucenici

Method 7 steps

1. 1

   Dissolve the yeast with a spoon of sugar in the warm milk and leave it to foam.

2. 2

   Knead a dough from the flour, sponge, eggs, sugar, zest, vanilla, salt and softened butter.

3. 3

   Let it rise somewhere warm for an hour and a quarter, until doubled.

4. 4

   Divide the dough into twelve and roll each into a forty-centimetre rope.

5. 5

   Twist each rope into a figure of eight, joining the ends, and set it on a tray.

6. 6

   Prove them thirty minutes and bake at 180 °C for twenty minutes, until golden.

7. 7

   Brush the hot mucenici with honey and cover them thickly with ground walnuts.