Easter Bread and Leftovers transformation into Overnight Caramel Cinnamon Bread Pudding خبز الفصح وبودينغ الخبز بالكراميل والقرفة
The April Daring Baker’s Challenge was hosted by Wolf of Wolf’s Den . She challenged us to Spring into our kitchens and make Easter breads reflecting cultures around the world.
I love to bake bread and I am sure whoever know me knows that. I have always been an advocate of the saying "Nothing smells better than a freshly baked bread in the oven"..is that a saying really or did I just decide to make it as such...hehehe...well it is true. I know that my children love to wake up in the morning on the smell of freshly baked something...bread, muffins, manaeesh (the traditional Middle Eastern flat bread topped with Za'atar or cheese).
And since I love to bake, I have done lots of brioche and other kinds of rich dough breads in my life time. So I was pretty excited about this challenge because it is my first in the daring kitchen bakers and it was to make Easter Bread.
As a Muslim, I don't celebrate Easter but I have many Christian friends who do. So this is my gift to them...a lovely rich dough that makes a huge amount of bread (please halve the recipe if you don't have many people in your family). But if you want, do like I did, and freeze slices of this delicious bread and turn it into a delicious dessert or breakfast. Today I will be sharing both the bread recipe and the yummy Overnight Caramel Cinnamon Bread Pudding I made using leftovers. (so happy to have more in the freezer). Not to mention the overnight part...I don't have to wake up early morning to fix breakfast...I will put together at night and it will be ready in the fridge for baking the next morning.
Easter Bread
Ingredients
1 cup milk
1 cup butter
1 cup margarine
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup luke warm water
2 tsp sugar
2 Tbsp yeast
6 eggs
2 Tbsp vanilla
7-8 cups flour
1 1/2 Mehleb spice (a common Middle Eastern spice that is very fragrant and usually used in bread and cheese)
1 tsp salt
For egg wash:
1 beaten egg
Coarse sugar for dusting
Directions:
In a sauce pan, mic milk, butter, margarine, and sugar. Stir till dissolved and remove off heat. Let it cool to luck warm.
Dissolve yeast with the rest of the sugar and water and let it rise for 5 min.
Beat eggs with vanilla.
In a stand up mixer, mix yeast mixture with milk mixture. Add eggs and mix well. Start adding flour till you get a good formed dough (not dry and not sticky). Knead for 10 minutes in stand up mixture or 15 by hand. Let it rest for 2 hours covered in a warm place. It will puff up nicely and you will be amazed of how many loaves of bread this recipe makes, so please cut it in half if you don't want that much bread on your hands.
Now the fun and somehow tricky part but don't be afraid...What I did is a 3 layer braided bread. First layer a 5 braided loaf. Topped with a 3 braided one and then with a twisted one. You can stick with one layer and what ever is easy for you. I tried to include photos but here is a great link on youtube for how to braid a 5 strands braided bread. So you need to divide your dough according to the shape you want at the end.
And here are my photos...
For the first 5 strands layer..Once done, I brushed it with egg wash and sprinkled it with sugar. I had this on a baking sheet lined up with baking parchment.
Topped with the 3 strand one...
As you see...I had tons of bread...but no complaints here with leftovers going in the freezer for the delicious Over night Caramel Cinnamon Bread Pudding...
Over night Caramel Cinnamon Bread Pudding
Ingredients:
1 stick of butter
1 1/2 cups of light brown sugar
5 cups of cubed Easter bread
6 eggs
1 1/2 cups of milk
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tbsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ginger
sprinkle of salt
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Icing sugar for dusting
Optional: You can add 1/2 cup raisins.
Directions:
Melt butter and add brown sugar, mix and place in the bottom of a baking dish. Add your bread cubes.
Mix eggs, sugar, milk, cream, vanilla and rest of spices. Add to bread and press the bread a bit down to make sure it has soaked some of the mixture.
Sprinkle with pecans and cover with plastic wrap.
Put it in the fridge and take it out 1/2 hour before baking in the morning.
Heat your oven to 175 and bake for 25-30 minutes till bubbly.
Serve hot dusted with Icing sugar.
Enjoy...
I love to bake bread and I am sure whoever know me knows that. I have always been an advocate of the saying "Nothing smells better than a freshly baked bread in the oven"..is that a saying really or did I just decide to make it as such...hehehe...well it is true. I know that my children love to wake up in the morning on the smell of freshly baked something...bread, muffins, manaeesh (the traditional Middle Eastern flat bread topped with Za'atar or cheese).
And since I love to bake, I have done lots of brioche and other kinds of rich dough breads in my life time. So I was pretty excited about this challenge because it is my first in the daring kitchen bakers and it was to make Easter Bread.
As a Muslim, I don't celebrate Easter but I have many Christian friends who do. So this is my gift to them...a lovely rich dough that makes a huge amount of bread (please halve the recipe if you don't have many people in your family). But if you want, do like I did, and freeze slices of this delicious bread and turn it into a delicious dessert or breakfast. Today I will be sharing both the bread recipe and the yummy Overnight Caramel Cinnamon Bread Pudding I made using leftovers. (so happy to have more in the freezer). Not to mention the overnight part...I don't have to wake up early morning to fix breakfast...I will put together at night and it will be ready in the fridge for baking the next morning.
Easter Bread
Ingredients
1 cup milk
1 cup butter
1 cup margarine
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup luke warm water
2 tsp sugar
2 Tbsp yeast
6 eggs
2 Tbsp vanilla
7-8 cups flour
1 1/2 Mehleb spice (a common Middle Eastern spice that is very fragrant and usually used in bread and cheese)
1 tsp salt
For egg wash:
1 beaten egg
Coarse sugar for dusting
Directions:
In a sauce pan, mic milk, butter, margarine, and sugar. Stir till dissolved and remove off heat. Let it cool to luck warm.
Dissolve yeast with the rest of the sugar and water and let it rise for 5 min.
Beat eggs with vanilla.
In a stand up mixer, mix yeast mixture with milk mixture. Add eggs and mix well. Start adding flour till you get a good formed dough (not dry and not sticky). Knead for 10 minutes in stand up mixture or 15 by hand. Let it rest for 2 hours covered in a warm place. It will puff up nicely and you will be amazed of how many loaves of bread this recipe makes, so please cut it in half if you don't want that much bread on your hands.
Now the fun and somehow tricky part but don't be afraid...What I did is a 3 layer braided bread. First layer a 5 braided loaf. Topped with a 3 braided one and then with a twisted one. You can stick with one layer and what ever is easy for you. I tried to include photos but here is a great link on youtube for how to braid a 5 strands braided bread. So you need to divide your dough according to the shape you want at the end.
And here are my photos...
For the first 5 strands layer..Once done, I brushed it with egg wash and sprinkled it with sugar. I had this on a baking sheet lined up with baking parchment.
Topped with the 3 strand one...
Topped with the twisted one
Let it rest covered for another hour.
Bake at 190 for around 30-35 minutes till done.
The smell is amazing....
Variation:
You can add raisins or orange zest to this bread to give it another dimension of flavor.
Over night Caramel Cinnamon Bread Pudding
Ingredients:
1 stick of butter
1 1/2 cups of light brown sugar
5 cups of cubed Easter bread
6 eggs
1 1/2 cups of milk
1/2 cup cream
1/2 cup sugar
2 Tbsp vanilla
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp ground ginger
sprinkle of salt
1/2 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
Icing sugar for dusting
Optional: You can add 1/2 cup raisins.
Directions:
Melt butter and add brown sugar, mix and place in the bottom of a baking dish. Add your bread cubes.
Mix eggs, sugar, milk, cream, vanilla and rest of spices. Add to bread and press the bread a bit down to make sure it has soaked some of the mixture.
Sprinkle with pecans and cover with plastic wrap.
Put it in the fridge and take it out 1/2 hour before baking in the morning.
Heat your oven to 175 and bake for 25-30 minutes till bubbly.
Serve hot dusted with Icing sugar.
Enjoy...
تحدي نادي الخبز لهاد الشهر كان من قبل وولف من Wolf’s Den.
تحدتنا انا ندخل على المطبخ ونشمر السواعد لنخبز خبز عيد الفصح واللي فيه منه
وصفات مختلفة حول العالم.
اللي بيعرفني منكم بيعرف اني كتيير بحب الخبز وبالنسبة
الي لا شيء يفوق روعة ريحة الخبز الطازج اللي بنخبز بالبيت...زهقتكم فيها هادي
القصة بس هادي هي الحقيقة. حتى الاولاد بالبيت بتلاقيهم تجمهروا قدام الفرن واجو
يركضوا على المطبخ لما بيصحوا على ريحة المفنز او الخبز او المناقيش.
ولاني بحب اخبز وبحب اعجن (وبحب اللت والعجن بالحكي كمان
خاصة بامور الاكل) فكنت كتيير مبسوطة بالتحدي لهاد الشهر لانه اول مشاركة الي بنادي
الخبز وكمان لانه بده لت وعجن...
ولانه احنا المسلمين
ما بنحتفل بعيد الفصح بس انا عندي اصدقاء مسيحيين وبيحتفلوا فيه فانا عملت الخبز
كهدية الهم وبتمنى يجربوها بعيدهم الجاي والاصل ينحط بيض ملون بين العجينة بعد التشكيل..عجينة غنية بالبيض والحليب والكمية اللي
انا عملتها كبيرة فارجو للي منكم ما عندوا ناس كتيير اكيلة انهم يعملوا نص الكمية
او يعملوا متلي يفرزوا الباقي ليصير احلى صينية بودينغ خبز بالكراميل والقرفة ومش
بس هيك ولازم تنعمل قبل بليلة...يعني
بتصحي الصبح وبس بتحطيها بالفرن وبعد ½ ساعة بيكون عندك احلى فطور وممكن احلى تحلاية شتوية...
بتصحي الصبح وبس بتحطيها بالفرن وبعد ½ ساعة بيكون عندك احلى فطور وممكن احلى تحلاية شتوية...
خبز الفصح
المقادير:
كوب حليب
كوب زبدة
كوب مارجرين
كوب سكر
½ كوب ماء دافئ
2 ملعقة طعام خميرة
6 بيضات
2 ملعقة طعام فانيلا
½ 1 ملعقة طعام محلب مطحون
7-8 اكواب طحين
رشة ملح
بيضة مخفوقة للوجة
سكر خشن
الطريقة:
في قدر على النار تخلط الزبدة والمارجرين
والسكر والحليب ويحرك ليذوب تماما ويترك ليصبح دافئ
يخلط الماء الدافئ والخميرة والسكر المتبقي
ويترك ليخمر 5 دقائق
يخلط البيض والفانيلا
يضاف خليط الزبدة والحليب والخميرة لبعض في
العجانة ثم يضاف البيض.
يضاف الطحين بالتدريج وتعجن 10 دقائق
بالعجانة للحصول على عجينة متماسكة او 15 دقيقة باليد
تترك لتختمر مغطاة 2 ساعة
نأتي الآن للجزء الممتع والصعب احيانا على
البعض بس لازم تجربوا وهو التشكيل. انا عملت رغيف كبير من 3 طبقات. الاولى جدلة
خماسية والتانية 3 والاخيرة برم. فيجب تقسيم العجينة الى كرات حسب الشكل الذي
تودين انجازه. وممكن عمل طبقة واحدة فقط.
بالنسبة
للجدلة الخماسية فحاولت اصورها بس ما قدرت احس انها بتفهم كتير عشان هيك هي رابط
على ال YouTube ببين الموضوع بشكل واضح.
وهي الطبقة الاولى مدهونة على صينية الخبز المبطنة
بالورق ومرشوشة سكر
وهي الطبقة التانية
وكله اندهن بيض ونرش سكر وتركتة مغطى خفبف
ساعة ليتضاعف حجمه
وبنخبز على 190 من 30-35 دقيقة
بودينغ الخبز بالكراميل والقرفة
المقادير:
اصبع زبدة مذاب
1/2 1 كوب سكر بني فاتح
5 كوب خبز مقطع مكعبات
6 بيض
1/2 1 كوب حليب
1/2 كوب كريما سائلة
ملعقتين طعام فانيلا
1/2 كوب سكر
رشة ملح
1/2 ملعقة صغيرة قرفة
1/4 ملعقة صغيرة زنجبيل مطحون
1/2 كوب بيكان مفروم او جوز
سكر ناعم للوجة
الطريقة:
تذاب الزبدة وتخلط بالسكر وتفرد في قاع صحن البايركس
توزع قطع الخبز
يخفق البيض والحليب وبقية المكونات وتصب فوق الخبز وتغمر جيدا
تغطى وتوضع في الثلاجة من الليل وتخرج قبل 1/2 ساعة من الخبز
تخبز على حرارة 175 من 25- 30 دقيقة
ترش بالسكر الناعم وتقدم ساخنة
ممكن اضافة الزبيب قبل الخبز. والف صحة وهنا...
wow I wish I can be that good ...do u think its easy to do as biginners ;
ReplyDeleteYes it is and you should go for it...make half or even 1/3 the recipe and go for one layer bread maybe the regular braid...please share with us :)
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