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Ingredients
- Warm Milk: 1 ½ cups
- Sugar: ½ cup
- Butter: ½ cup
- Warm Water: ½ cup
- Yeast: 1 tbsp yeast (along with 1 tsp of sugar)
- Bread Flour/ Apf: 6-7 cups
- (You can make your own bread flour by adding 1 tsp of vital wheat gluten to 1 cup of all purpose flour.)
- Salt: 1 tbsp
- Egg: 2 OR Ener G Egg = 1 tbsp EnerG + 6-8 tbsp of water
- Icing:
- Confectioners Sugar: 2.5 cups
- Almond/Vanilla extract: 1 tsp
- Water : as much as needed
- Garnishing:
- Toasted Sliced Almonds
- Candied cherrries
- Confectioners/Powdered Sugar
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