Viennese Braid

Description
In Romanian: Colac vienez

Ingredients

 * sweet bread dough

Filling

 * 6 oz / 150 g butter
 * 6 oz / 150 g confectioner's sugar
 * vanilla
 * 3 tablespoons cubed sugared orange peel

Directions

 * 1) Mix the butter with the sugar and vanilla until creamy.
 * 2) Refrigerate.
 * 3) Roll a square shaped sheet of dough, about a finger thick.
 * 4) Then spread the butter mixture, uniformly, over the dough.
 * 5) Sprinkle the orange peel on top.
 * 6) Then fold the dough three ways (three-fold), so that the right third comes over the left third.
 * 7) Cut it lengthwise in three equal strips and braid.
 * 8) Join the ends securely and arrange the braid in a round pan that was covered with buttered paper.
 * 9) Let it rise a little in the pan and then set into the oven, at low heat, until well risen, then at medium heat.
 * 10) Remove from the pan after is has cooled off.