‘stafidopswmo’ raisins bread reminds me of school! my mom used to give my sister and me a light lunch for school but I always liked eating a soft and most of the times still warm from the bakery stafidopswmo.. and I still do to be honest! it’s a great combination with a nice cup of coffee, so I thought why not to try and make my own?

the recipe

ingredients

for the dough

• 500gr. flour
• 8gr. dry yeast
• 300ml. lukewarm water
• 2 tbsp. olive oil
• sugar & salt pinch
• 2,5tsp. cinnamon
• 1tsp. cloves
• 6tbsp. sugar powder

for the filling

• 200gr. raisins
• 100ml. strawberry liqueur

 

directions

Prepare the dough

• Mix the flour, cinnamon, cloves and sugar powder in a bowl.
• In another big bowl mix the yeast and the water until the yeast melts completely.
• Add a pinch of sugar and stir a little bit.
• Start adding the flourmix little by little and knead with your hand or a dough mixer.
• After adding half of the flour, add the salt and the olive oil.
• Continue adding the rest of the flour little by little while kneading the dough. You should have a soft dough that doesn’t stick to your hands. That means that you could need a little more or less flour, trust your senses!
• When the dough is ready, cover the bowl with a clean towel and let it rest for 1 hour.

 

For the filling

• In a bowl cut into half the raisins, add the liqueur and let them stay like this for a while so that the raisins get softer.

Getting ready

• After the dough is ready (after resting for 1 hour) add the raisins and liqueur and knead again well. If needed add some extra flour. The dough might be a bit sticky but that’s ok. Let it rest for another 20′.
• In the meantime preheat your oven at 230 degrees C.
• When the dough is ready make small balls, you’ll get approximately 18 raisin breads. Spread them in a pan covered with baking paper. You’ll probably need to bake two times or use two pans. Bake for 17′-20′ till they get a nice brown color! Your house will smell lovely cinnamon..

Enjoy!

Tip!

The Dutch way is to enjoy a cinnamon bread cut in the middle and stuffed with a slice of cheese!