"I suggest preheating the oven sometime into the second rise.
The comment about confirming live yeast had good intentions but we couldn’t tell if it was frothing or not after 10 minutes.
We had to test the yeast using a conventional method before proceeding.
Rolling the dough out 30 inches long and 6 inches ‘wide’ made more sense since we didn’t think we had enough mass to form a 30x6 inch cylindrical form. We didn't need to use a coffee can to retain the hole since the ring was pretty big - we'll probably use 24x6 next time.
Rather than pushing in the toy from the bottom, we placed the toy with the cream cheese filling before pinching the tube closed.
We glazed it while it was still hot to have it dry quicker but the sprinkles had to be added immediately.
It's very yummy and next time we will try it with 2X the filling for the cream cheese lovers in our house.
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"I suggest preheating the oven sometime into the second rise.
The comment about confirming live yeast had good intentions but we couldn’t tell if it was frothing or not after 10 minutes.
We had to test the yeast using a conventional method before proceeding.
Rolling the dough out 30 inches long and 6 inches ‘wide’ made more sense since we didn’t think we had enough mass to form a 30x6 inch cylindrical form.
Rather than pushing in the toy from the bottom, we placed the toy after applying the cream cheese filling and before pinching the tube closed.
We glazed and sprinkled it while it was still hot to have it dry quicker.
It's very yummy and next time we will try it with 2X the filling for the cream cheese lovers in our house.
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