Hungarian Brioches with Cottage Cheese and Raisins

Hungarian Brioches with Cottage Cheese and Raisins are deliciously aromatic sweet buns with a lovely topping of cottage cheese and raisins.

For the dough:

250 g (2 cups) unbleached all-purpose flour
50 g (1/4 cup) raw cane sugar
12.5 g fresh yeast
125 ml (1/2 cup) milk
pinch of salt
1 egg yolk, organic, free range
seeds of a half a vanilla bean
For the cottage cheese cream:

125 g cottage cheese
50 g (1/4 cup) raw cane sugar
seeds of a half a vanilla bean
zest of 1/2 a lemon
1/2 egg yolk (keep the other half for the egg wash)
a handful of raisins (optional, but so good)
For the egg wash:

1/2 the yolk leftover
1 tsp of the egg white leftover
1/4 tsp milk or half & half

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