Zopf
By Greg
Total Time: 165 min
Prep Time: 130 min
Cook Time: 35 min

Great for Sunday brunch with friends. Needs around 2 hours to rise
Recipe Details
Serves: 4 people
Difficulty: Easy
Created 14 June, 2020
Updated 11 August, 2025
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Ingredients
Instructions
- Mix flour, salt, yeast and sugar together in a bowl
- Add the butter in small strips and start your mixer
- During the mixing, add the milk slowly and continue to mix until a smooth and soft dough has formed
- Cover the dough and leave it for around 1.5 hours until it is ca. doubled in size
- Halve the dough, and roll out each into ca. 70cm long ropes, tapered at the ends
- Braid your zopf and place it on the baking paper on the baking tray
- Paint with the beaten egg and milk mixture and leave for another ca. 30 minutes to finish rising
- Bake at 200° C conventional setting in the middle of the oven for approx. 30-35 minutes
Check out a video of how to do the zopf braiding here: https://youtu.be/5nqHbAfrI44


