(Para todos ingredientes, por favor usem as versões orgânicas se disponíveis)

500 g farinha de trigo
200 gramas de açúcar
150 ml de óleo de girassol
2 colheres (chá) de extrato de malte
1 xícara de leite de amêndoas
50 g de fermento fresco
Nozes, frutas cristalizadas, nibs de cacau, etc.

Para o recheio
1 colher cheia (sopa) de açúcar de confeiteiro e água fervente para o glaceado
vinagre

Directions (to make Argentinean Pan Dulce):

1. Mixture: take 20 almonds, you soak them overnight. On the following day, you peel them, put them into a blender. Blend them with a cup of water, strain it and the almond milk is ready. Add the yeast (almond milk needs to be warm), add a little bit of sugar and a little bit of flour. Mixed up and set it aside (until bigger and foamy texture)
2. Put the flour in the bowl
3. Add organic sugar, mix them
4. Leave a kind of hole in the center of the bowl
5. Pour some oil
6. Pour the mixture
7. Add 2 teaspoons the malt extract
8. Mixed them
9. Bring a little bit of flour (with the flour you can knead at ease so it won’t get stuck to your fingers)
10. Knead it strongly
11. The dough shouldn’t be so elastic. It should be a little firm (gradually adding flour)
12. Let it rest for about an hour, cover it with a biodegradable plastic bag
13. Divide the dough into two (we can make two loaves of sweet bread)
14. Chop the dried fruits
15. Add the fruits gradually inside the dough
16. Put the dough in the bowl and cover it with paper and biodegradable bag
17. Let it rest for 5-8 hour
18. Put it in a baking pan, in the oven with a low heat
19. It’ll last about 40 minutes, between 40 and an hour, depending on the oven
20. Mixed confectioner’s sugar with a little boiling water (a thick consistency)
21. This confectioner’s sugar will make a kind of glazing, that will cover the sweet bread.
22. Add some dried fruits, some walnuts, almonds in the center. Add the glazing on top of the dried fruits so that they stick
23. Between 5–10 minutes the decoration and glazing are ready to taste
24. Ready to serve