ROMA EASTER CAKE 
Sweet bread dough

Filling:

5 eggs
5 oz. confectioners sugar
1 tsp. vanilla
3 tbsp. grated chocolate
1 tbsp. milk

Melt the chocolate with 1 Tbsp. of milk. Beat 4 egg yolks with the sugar add vanilla and melted chocolate, beat well. Filling should be pasty. Roll out a 1/4 inch thick sheet of the sweet bread dough, place in a baking pan. Form another piece of dough to form a long, finger thick roll and arrange around it around the sheet in the pan, stick to the walls of the pan. Place filling inside the ring of dough, make sure not to cover the edges of the ring of dough. Make two more dough rolls and place them over the filling in an X shape. Place dough in a warm place and allow it to rise. Use remaining egg to make an egg wash, brush exposed edges of dough with egg wash.

Bake at 350F until dough is golden brown. Remove and cool on rack. Serve when pan is cooled.

 

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