POTICA - another King Arthur bread recipe with walnuts

 King Arthur recently had a contest of sorts (you could win nice prizes) if you made certain recipes and posted photos of social media (Instagram, Facebook) of your results with the hashtag "ExtraordinaryBread" and tagged King Arthur Baking.  I had already made one of the breads on the list, Cinnamon Star, a few weeks ago.  After looking at the remaining recipes on the list, I wasn't sure that I wanted to attempt one of them.  Seriously, I have a long list of recipes to try and another specialty bread recipe was not needed.   But I broke down to try the potica.    I had a lot of nuts (walnuts/pecans) stored in the fridge so this would be a good way to use up some of them.

I did this one in stages like a few breads I have been making.  Prepare the dough the night before so it can do its thing overnight in the fridge.  Started filling ingredients in the morning . . .chopping the amount of nuts called for in this recipe takes awhile!  FOUR and a HALF cups of nuts for 2 loaves.

This recipe is not as sweet as I was expecting but that is probably good.  All the nuts make it hardy and the dough is substantial . . .no light fluffy dough.  It does have a good flavor even if it isn't what I craved . . . sweet nuttiness.

King Arthur Potica

Maybe I should have measured my filling better?  Or better yet, weigh it and divide equally.  I had too much filling in one of my loaves. My results didn't look like theirs.  

Oh, well!!  

Looks and taste are not always synonymous but I don't know how theirs (KA) tasted.