Cheddar and Beer Pull-Apart Bread
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup beer, dark plus 1/3 cup
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 2 1/4 teaspoons yeast, active dry 1 package
- 213 cups whole wheat flour or white whole wheat, plus 1/2 cup more
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 2 large eggs well beaten
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 tablespoon dijon mustard
- 1/2 tablespoon whole-grain mustard
- 2 tablespoons red hot pepper sauce or as needed
- 1 tablespoon horseradish sauce or as needed
- 1/2 teaspoon black pepper or as needed
- 2 cups cheddar cheese, very old, sharp shredded
- In a small saucepan over medium heat, add olive oil and beer until lukewarm.
- Remove saucepan from heat, and pour liquid into a small bowl with sugar and yeast.
- Set aside for 5 to 10 minutes until foamy.
- Meanwhile in a large bowl of mixer with an electric dough hook, add flour and salt, and mix with a wooden spatula.
- Pour yeast mixture and egg into flour mixture, and stir with wooden spatula until combined and moistened.
- Put on dough hook, turn it on and knead dough until elastic and smooth.
- Turn dough out, coat bowl with cooking spray or brush with oil.
- Put dough back into bowl, cover with a damp kitchen towel.
- Let rest in a warm place until double in size, 1 to 2 hours.
- Meanwhile whisk together olive oil and dijon mustard in a small bow until smooth.
- Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, mix together whole grain mustard, hot pepper sauce, horseradish sauce, black pepper and cheddar cheese until well combined.
- Put both oil-mustard mixture and cheese mixture into frige until ready to use.
- When dough is doubled, remove from bowl to a well oiled surface, punch dough down, and knead for a few times.
- Roll dough out into a 24 by 12-inch rectangular.
- Brush olive oil-mustard mixture evenly over dough.
- With a pizza cutter, cut dough crosswise into 6 4 by 3-inch rectangular.
- Divide cheese mixture into 6 equal amounts.
- Spread first cheese mixture over first 4 by 3-inch dough.
- Place second dough on top pf cheese mixture.
- Repeat same step until all doughs are stacked with cheese mixture in between.
- The last portion of cheese should be on top of the sixth layer.
- With a sharp knife, cut stacked dough into 6 equal portion.
- Well grease a 9 by 13-inch loaf pan.
- Start to arrange each stack into pan, it maybe feel a little bit tight in the end, just squeeze stacks to make more space for last one or two stacks.
- Loosely covered with plastic wrap and let rise again, 1 to 1 1 /2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C) F when second rising is close to end.
- Bake bread until it's golden and brown on top, about 30 minutes.
- Let cool in pan on wire rack for about 15 minutes.
- Remove from pan and serve warm.
- Or let cool completely on wire rack if you can wait that long...
- Leftover bread can be kept in an air-tight container for a couple days, or frozen for up to 1 month.
olive oil, beer, sugar, yeast, whole wheat flour, salt, eggs, olive oil, mustard, wholegrain mustard, red hot pepper sauce, horseradish sauce, black pepper, cheddar cheese
Taken from recipeland.com/recipe/v/cheddar-beer-pull-apart-bread-53074 (may not work)