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cookie butter babka

Cookie Butter Babka

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Servings: 1 loaf

Ingredients

  • 280 g Bread flour 2¼ cup
  • 7 g Instant yeast 2 tsp
  • 1 tsp Sea salt
  • 25 g Granulated sugar 2 tbsp
  • 1 large Egg room temperature
  • 120 g Whole or 2% milk ½ cup, warmed (105°F)
  • 56 g Unsalted butter 4 tbsp, softened

Filling + Topping

  • 120 g Cookie butter warmed
  • 2-4 Biscoff cookies crumbled
  • ½ cup Powdered sugar
  • ½ tsp Cinnamon
  • 1 tbsp Milk

Instructions

  • In the bowl of your stand mixer with dough hook attached, add flour, yeast, salt, sugar, egg, and warm milk and mix on low until dough comes together.
  • Add softened butter 1 tbsp at a time, letting the butter be kneaded into the dough before adding the next. Repeat until all butter has been added.
  • Allow dough to be kneaded until smooth and elastic.
  • Remove dough from bowl, and shape into a ball. Lightly grease your bowl and replace dough into the bowl, covering and letting rise in a warm space.
  • Let dough proof for 1-2 hours or until doubled in size.
  • Punch down the dough, and place on your workspace. Place your cookie butter in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds to thin it slightly and make it easily spread.
  • Roll the dough out to roughly 10x14 and spread out your cookie butter over the dough, leaving a half inch border along the edges.
  • Roll your dough up from the short edge, pinching and sealing the edge when finished.
  • Using a sharp knife or bench scraper, cut your dough log in half lengthwise, leaving two long sections with the interior of the dough exposed.
  • Make an x with your dough and twist the dough around itself making a spiral.
  • Place your dough into a parchment lined 8.5 by 4.5 inch loaf pan. Cover and allow to rise in a warm place for another 30-60 minutes.
  • While your dough is proofing, preheat your oven to 350°F.
  • When your dough has finished it's second proof (loaf should have puffed up a bit) place on the center rack of your oven and bake for about 30 minutes. A thermometer inserted should read at least 180°F and bread should be golden brown.
  • Remove bread from loaf pan and onto a wire rack to cool.
  • After your bread has cooled for at least an hour, prepare your glaze.
    In a small bowl, add powdered sugar, cinnamon and milk and whisk together. Glaze should be thick but ribbon off a spoon or whisk when lifted.
  • Pour or drizzle your glaze over the bread, then sprinkle crushed biscoff cookies over. Alow your glaze to set and bread to be fully cooled before slicing in. Enjoy!