Take one portion of my enriched sourdough dough, add some mincemeat, roll up, cut up, plait, and bake….and create a lovely Christmas loaf! That’s what I did here…
It tastes so good!!!!! And I don’t even like mincemeat! But partnering it with this dough worked perfectly…here’s what I did…
I made a standard portion of my enriched sourdough using all white spelt flour (you can use flour/s of your choice).
This is a long slow proving dough so it wasn’t fully proved until mid morning, which was the perfect time for the next step: I turned the dough out onto the kitchen counter then stretched it out to a rectangle, matching the width to the length of my loaf pan. I then spread several tablespoons of mincemeat over the dough…
I rolled this up to a fat sausage, still matching the length of my loaf pan..
Cut the sausage length ways to make 2 long pieces…
Then plaited the two pieces and lifted the whole thing into a loaf tin liner and into the loaf tin…
I then covered this again with my shower cap and left it on the counter to prove again for a few hours…
After a few hours the dough had puffed up…
I brushed the top with egg white as per my main enriched recipe, and baked it uncovered, from a cold start, at 160C fan/convection, 180C non fan/convention, for 45-50 mins. It can be baked from a cold or hot start, bake for 5 mins less in a preheated oven.
After an agonising wait, I cut into it…
I hope you like the look of my babka…if you don’t have, or don’t like, mincemeat, try it with jam, chutney, or any filling of your choice. And if you do make a enriched sourdough babka with my recipe, please do share it and tag me, or send me a photo of your creation…happy baking!
Check out my enriched sourdough blog for even more ideas xx
Made my boozy mincemeat enriched dough bread last week. Used 500 g mix and divided it into 2 after overnight prove. Just rolled out the 2 portions of dough, spread on the mincemeat , rolled into 2 sausage shapes and left on counter for 2 hours. Placed both on a lined oven tray and baked for 40 minutes. Next time will add a roll of marzipan in the middle before I roll . My version of Stollen
Fab 👍🏻👍🏻 sounds great 👏🏻👏🏻
I’m excited about this group bake! I actually started a batch of enriched dough yesterday and was greeted by a large container of dough. I was scanning the blog and saw this months group bake. I’ve never made babka before, so why not now? I’m doing a cinnamon babka and have it on the counter for the next 3-4 hours before it goes in the oven
How exciting! Thank you ☺️☺️☺️
I have loved making this in many different guises, turned it into a jewelled Stollen with multi coloured glacé cherries, nuts and a drizzle of glacé icing. Fabulous recipe
Thank you so much x x x