Marbled Loaf Bread
- 270 grams Bread (strong) flour
- 30 grams Cake flour
- 30 grams Sugar
- 4 grams Salt
- 30 grams Butter
- 50 grams Heavy cream (or milk if you don't have cream)
- 160 grams Milk and eggs
- 4 grams Dry yeast
- 5 grams A. Purple sweet potato powder (dissolve in 2 teaspoons of water)
- 5 grams B. Matcha (dissolve in 2 teaspoons of water)
- Put the bread flour, cake flour, sugar, salt, butter, heavy cream, milk, eggs and dry yeast in the bread maker, and make a dough.
- Let it knead (for about 20 minutes), and take out the dough and divide it into three.
- Put the sweet potato powder and one dough piece in the bread maker, and let it work for about 5 minutes.
- While the bread maker is operating, combine the matcha powder and another dough piece, and knead with your hands to mix the powder evenly.
- If the dough is sticky, dust your hands with flour.
- You have three colors of dough.
- Shape the dough into smooth balls, and cover with a wet tea towel.
- Let it rise.
- The photo shows the dough after rising.
- Let the dough rise for 15 minutes.
- Stretch the dough into the log which is slightly longer than the length of the loaf pan.
- Braid the dough together.
- Place the dough into the pan, be careful not to change the shape.
- The dough has same colour as dango ball skewers.
- Let it rise again.
- When the dough fills 80 - 90 % of the loaf pan, cover with the lid.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 200C.
- Remove the lid and drop the bread on a work surface to let the steam out.
- It is fluffy and soft, so cool it down first then slice.
- It's done.
- All slices have different patters because of the braided dough.
- This is easy to bake but looks gorgeous.
- Also, this is good for a gift.
bread, flour, sugar, salt, butter, heavy cream, milk, yeast, purple sweet potato, water
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/144070-marbled-loaf-bread (may not work)