Sweet Italian Easter Bread
This sweet Italian Easter bread is the perfect sweet treat to make for Easter! Soft and flaky with a sugar glaze on top, finished with festive colorful sprinkles!
Ingredients
- 2/3 cups milk, warm
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
- 2 tablespoons melted butter + 1 tablespoon melted butter for brushing
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour + more for kneading
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
For Glaze
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 2 tablespoons milk
- sprinkles of choice
Instructions
- In the bowl of a stand mixer or hand held mixer, add warm milk and yeast. Let sit for 5 minutes.
- Add melted butter, flour, sugar and salt. Mix together until dough forms.
- Add eggs and keep mixing until everything is well combined. Your dough may be sticky, but thats ok.
- Flour a work surface well, and flour your hands. Place dough on floured surface. With floured hands, knead dough for a few minutes until it isn't sticky anymore.
- Place dough back into bowl, cover with a towel and let rise for 1 hour.
- When 1 hour is up, preheat oven to 350°.
- Place dough on a floured surface and divide into two balls. Roll each ball out into a 16 inch rope.
- Twist each rope together in a braid (it doesn't have to be perfect).
- Brush the top of braided dough with 1 tablepsoon of melted butter.
- Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, and bake in preheated oven for 20-25 minutes.
- Let bread cool completely.
- While bread is cooling, mix together ingredients for icing.
- Drizzle bread with icing, and sprinkles.
- Enjoy!