Daring Bakers – June!

June’s a crazy wedding photography month, which means I had a hard time finding spare time to do this two-day challenge! Brad and I ended up making the Danish Braid at my parents’ house, and I used my father’s point-and-shoot (which is why the photos look different than other months!). Even though the preparation photos don’t look as tasty, the end result was magnificent.

Here’s the thing – it involves spreading 2 sticks of butter over dough, and folding this dough over and over. The proofing time between each set of folds was a 1/2 hour, so it took all night to finish! This is me spreading on the butter:

Here’s the dough after the first “turn”. Check out all that butter in the middle.

Here’s the braid after all is said and done on the second day, when it’s ready to go in the oven with its delicious apple filling:

And here it is out of the oven:

Yum. Total yum. I forgot to halve the dough, so the proportion of filling-to-dough isn’t quite right. Still just as tasty though.

Today’s the Daring Bakers posting day, which means I won’t be posting tomorrow (Monday). Check back on Tuesday for a slideshow of this weekend’s amazing bike ride wedding!