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Festive Coconut Chocolate Yeast Roll
This festive yeast roll combines a soft enriched dough with cocoa and a buttery coconut-vanilla filling. It is shaped into a decorative roll and baked until golden.
Prep time
1 hr 30 min
Cook time
40 min
Total time
2 hrs 10 min
Yield
10 slices
Ingredients
15
Steps
9
Filed under: chocolate, coconut, eggs, baked, german.
Source channel: Bäckergeheimnisse
Key ingredients
[Dough] 450–500g wheat flour, [Dough] 2 tbsp sugar, [Dough] 13g fresh yeast, [Dough] 125ml warm water, [Dough] 125ml warm milk.
Ingredients
- [Dough] 450–500g wheat flour
- [Dough] 2 tbsp sugar
- [Dough] 13g fresh yeast
- [Dough] 125ml warm water
- [Dough] 125ml warm milk
- [Dough] 1 egg plus 1 egg yolk
- [Dough] 5–6g salt
- [Dough] 50g butter
- [Chocolate layer] 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- [Chocolate layer] 10ml vegetable oil
- [Coconut filling] 120g desiccated coconut
- [Coconut filling] 10g vanilla sugar
- [Coconut filling] 70g icing sugar
- [Coconut filling] 100g butter
- [Glaze] 60ml milk
Method
- Dissolve the fresh yeast and sugar in the warm water and milk.
- Add the egg, egg yolk, flour, salt and butter. Knead until smooth and elastic.
- Cover and leave the dough to rise for 60 minutes.
- Prepare the chocolate mixture with the cocoa and oil.
- Mix the coconut, vanilla sugar, icing sugar and softened butter to make the filling.
- Roll out and assemble the dough with the chocolate and coconut layers, then shape it into a roll.
- Place the shaped roll on a lined baking tray and brush with milk.
- Bake at 180°C for 35–40 minutes until risen and golden.
- Cool before slicing.