Hello lovelies, now it's nearly time, the Easter weekend is here and I have a suitable recipe for you: Babka with carrot filling. In addition to my carrot cake with cream cheese frosting, the classic version, I wanted to create another recipe with carrots. Because hardly anything reminds me of Easter as much as carrots. So a braided yeast bun came to life with a nuts and carrot filling. If a carrot cake and a nut bun had a baby, then it would be this Babka with carrot filling.
The recipe is quick to make, great to prepare and fits perfectly to an Easter breakfast or brunch. The filling makes the yeast bun very juicy and you can hardly taste the carrots. Hazelnuts and marzipan provide a fine nut aroma and a hint of cinnamon is a must.
I decided to use a frosting and pistachios as decoration. Since the braided yeast bun itself doesn’t contain much sugar, it was delicious. You can also make the frosting with birch sugar. If you like to serve the bun as a breakfast bread, leave out the frosting so you can coat it with something else.
Yeast pastry is definitely one of our favorite cakes, we like simple braided buns but also all sorts of fillings, which can be combined in many ways. You can let your imagination run wild. You usually have the ingredients for a yeast dough at home and it's just done quickly.
Will you have an Easter brunch? Then serve this babka with carrot filling alongside my carrot cake with cream cheese frosting – or simply bake both. If you love yeast pastry, you should also try my cranberry orange yeast bun, and for a crunchy brunch extra there are my crispy orange carrot waffles. I'd be so happy if you bake this braided bun – let me know how it turned out!
