Walnut Sweet Bread

Description

In Romanian: Cozonac cu nuca

Ingredients

• Regular Sweet Bread dough

Filling

• 10 oz / 300 g ground walnuts
• 1 cup milk
• ¾ cup sugar
• ¼ cup rum
• vanilla

Directions

1. Melt the sugar in the warm milk with vanilla in a pot on the range.
2. When the sugar is melted, add the walnuts and keep stirring.
3. After a few minutes of boiling, and after the filling has thickened, remove from heat and add rum. When the filling is cold, roll a sheet of dough about one finger thick, uniformly spread the walnut filling on top and roll like a jelly roll.
4. Grease a bread pan, place the roll inside, let rise for a while and then set in the oven to bake at medium heat.