- 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
