I’ve eaten many walnut roll slices – far too many. And now I have this walnut roll recipe in my Croatian cooking bag of tricks, thanks to a dear reader who kindly shared it with me, I fear I may eat many, many more….
Walnut Roll Recipe
The Dough
- In a large mixing bowl place 1 cup of warm milk
- Add 1 pkg of vanilla sugar (or two teaspoons of vanilla essence)
- Add 1 tablespoon dry yeast. Let it do its thing for 10 minutes
- Add 1 large egg
- Add 1 tsp salt
- Add 1/2 cup of white sugar and 1/2 cup of melted butter
- Add the zest of 1 lemon and 1 tsp rum
- Mix all ingredients with an electric mixer for 30 seconds
- Add 1.5 cups of white flour
- Beat two minutes at medium speed with a paddle beater
- Change to a dough hook and slowly add in another 2 cups of flour
- Add the flour slowly until it pulls away from the bowl – if you need less, don’t add it all
- Continue mixing for 2 more minutes
- The dough will be tough but smooth
- Place the dough in a warm bowl, massage with 1 tsp of…