Cream Cheese Blueberry Babka Bread
- Prep Time: 30 minutes
- Cook Time: 40 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
- Yield: 24 1x
- Category: Bread, Breakfast, Dessert
- Cuisine: Eastern European
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Ingredients
For the dough:
- 4 cups flour
- 2 ¼ tsp active dry yeast
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup warm milk
- 10 tbsp butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla
For the blueberry filling:
- 3 cups blueberry filling
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
For the cream cheese filling:
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- ½ cup sugar
Instructions
- To make the dough, in a bowl of stand mixer fitted with a dough hook combine the milk, 1 teaspoon of sugar and yeast.
- Let stand for 5 minutes.
- In another bowl combine the flour, sugar and salt.
- Add the eggs and vanilla to the bowl of stand mixer.
- While the mixer is running, add the flour mixture slowly.
- Beat on low speed for 5 minutes.
- Gradually add the butter and mix for another 4 minutes.
- Lightly grease a large bowl with oil.
- Transfer the dough into the bowl.
- Cover with plastic wrap and leave to rise in a warm place for 1 hour or until doubled in size.
- In the meantime, make the blueberry filling.
- Add the blueberries, lemon juice and sugar to a large pot and stir to combine.
- Bring to a boil over medium high heat.
- Reduce the heat to medium and simmer for 15 minutes until thickened
- Set aside.
- To make the cream cheese filling, in a bowl cream the cheese and sugar.
- Line two 9×5 inch loaf pans with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Punch the dough and divide into 2 portions.
- Roll each portion of dough into a 12×16 inch rectangle.
- Spread with half the cream cheese mixture onto dough rectangle.
- Spread half of blueberry filing in the same manner.
- Roll up the dough into a long log.
- Cut the log in half lengthwise.
- Twist 2 halves around each other to form braided loaf.
- Carefully transfer the loaf to the prepared pan.
- Repeat last 6 steps with other dough rectangle.
- Cover the pans with plastic wrap and let rise for an hour.
- Preheat oven to 350ºF.
- Bake in preheated oven for 40 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and allow to cool before serving.
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Keywords: blueberry, babka, bread, cream cheese, loaf
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