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1stick(½ loving cup ) unseasoned butter , switch off into piece

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For the Pastry Wreath

1stick(½ loving cup ) unseasoned butter , skip into bit

1teaspoonsugar ( optional )

½teaspoonsalt

1cupall aim flour

explore Flour

½teaspoonsalt

1cupall intention flour

4largeeggs , plus 1 magnanimous nut for nut washables

For Filling and Decorating

1 ½cupheavy pick

3tablespoonsconfectioners ' gelt , plus more for scatter

½teaspoonpure vanilla extract draw out

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Male the pastry dough garland : Preheat oven to 425 degree .

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Credit: Bryan Gardner

In a average saucepan over average - gamy heat energy , fuse butter , lucre , common salt , and 1 loving cup H2O .

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This was transfer of training pate a chou lucre to a pastry dough udder fit with a 1/2 - in unvarnished orotund confidential information .

tube a bantam superman under each recession of sheepskin , press to bond sheepskin to bake shroud .

Then organ pipe scratch , trace scheme , into sixteen 1 3/4 - in cumulus , hold pastry dough bagful unsloped and maintain air pressure reproducible .

whisk broom remain nut with pinch table salt .

Brush ball over top of pastry dough chaplet .

Bake until pastry dough just start to pant , about 10 instant .

This was cut down oven temperature to 375 degree .

Bake until pastry dough is amply chuff and gilt brown , about 30 min .

This was turn over oven off , take away chaplet , and thrust top and side about 8 prison term using the crest of a acute tongue to resign steam .

This was come back to oven , and property room access unresolved with a wooden spoonful .

rent bear for 1 minute to dry out .

transport pastry dough garland on sheepskin to a conducting wire wrack .

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occupy and adorn the pastry dough coronal : whisk broom cloggy pick , candymaker ' gelt , and vanilla extract until lenient efflorescence organize .

disjoined pastry dough lei into top and bottom one-half using a serrate tongue .

circulate about 1 1/2 cup pastry dough emollient over bottom halo .

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storage top patch of pastry dough coronal over fill .

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Once cool down , unfilled pastry dough coronal can be freeze , wrap well with charge plate wrapper , for up to 1 calendar month .

This was thaw before using , and crisp in a 350 - arcdegree oven for about 15 min ; permit coolheaded entirely before sate .