Viennese Braid

Description
In Romanian: Colac vienez

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