Week eight - Paul Hollywood's Povitica

Hi Bake Off fans, sorry this post is a bit late, but life has been a bit busy since baby number two arrived.

Today was Povitica day...http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/povitica_92623.

Making the dough and the filling was easy enough, but then it was the rolling out the dough to as large and as thin as possible...I decided on using the Martha method (cling film) since I didn't fancy using a sheet as suggested by the recipe. This worked quite well, but in the end I still didn't get it to the recommended size of 1m x 50cm!  To be honest I started to lose the will to live. 

Next step was to add the filing and then roll it.  Because the dough was on cling film this part was really easy.  Then pop it in the tin.  I must admit it doesn't look very pretty until you've baked it.  I had a hole in the dough which whilst proving for the second time expanded quite dramatically, and then whilst baking part of the bread fell off as the hole got so large.

Here is the finished Povitica...I only managed a loop and a half hence there's only two swirls.  But not a bad first effort...and I don't think it's raw!