Cinnamon bread

A friend of mine passed me the link of this wonderful bread, from the Pioneer Woman.

My bread was a bit too dry because I got impatient while kneading the dough and thus I added more flour than the necessary, but it tasted great anyways. Toasted or not it's a yummy breakfast and it looks soooo good... ^^

Ingredients:

75g white sugar
85g butter
245ml whole milk
415g all-purpose flour
2 eggs at room temperature
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast
75g white sugar + 2 tablespoons cinnamon + 2 tablespoons melted butter

Method:

1. Melt butter with milk. Heat until very warm, but don’t boil. Allow to cool until still warm to the touch, but not hot.
2. Sprinkle yeast over the top and stir gently. Allow to sit for 10 minutes.
3. In another bowl, mix sugar and eggs until combined.
4. Pour in milk/butter/yeast mixture and stir to combine.
5. Combine the flour and the salt and add half of it to the liquid mixture. When combined, add the other half and mix well.
6. Knead the dough for at least 10 minutes. If it's too sticky add 30g flour and knead for another 5 minutes (the dough ought to be a little sticky after the kneading).
7. Heat a metal or glass mixing bowl so it’s warm. Drizzle in a little olive oil, then toss the dough in the oil to coat. Cover bowl in plastic wrap and set it in a warm place for at least 2 hours.
8. Turn dough out onto the work surface. Roll into a neat rectangle no wider than the loaf pan you're going to use.
9. Brush the dough with 2 tablespoons of melted butter. Mix sugar and cinnamon together, then sprinkle evenly over the buttered dough.
10. Starting at the far end, roll dough towards you, keeping it tight and contained. Pinch the seam to seal.
11. Smear a loaf pan with softened butter. Place the dough, seam down, in the pan. Cover with plastic wrap and allow to rise for 2 hours.
12. Preheat the oven to 180ºC.
13. Bake in the preheated oven for 40 minutes on a middle/lower rack.
14. Remove from the pan and allow bread to cool.

Ham and cheese ring bread

I made this bread for Friday's dinner, for my parents and me. Even though you may think that it's too much for only 3 people, the truth is that we ate it all. Yes, not a single bit was left as we were VERY hungry (indeed, I was whishing that my mother couldn't eat all of her share, but I wasn't lucky T_T). I used a very thinly sliced ham and, instead of using grated cheddar cheese for the inside and grated gruyère cheese for the outside of the bread, I used Hochland's cheese slices for the filling and the grated emmental that I use for pasta for the topping.

The bread was really delicious, with all that creamy cheese going into my mouth in every bite (yes, I love cheese so I used a lot of slices for the filling ^^). The making of it was not as tiring as of the chorizo rolls, so I'll be going for this one more often than the other (you're allowed to call me lazyass ^^U).

I got the recipe and the kneading intructions from dailydelicious.

Sausage and chorizo rolls: a sunday's yummy dinner

Yesterday I made these rolls for me and my parents. I made 2 sausage and cheese rolls and 2 chorizo rolls, so that we could slice them and eat a bit of everything. With the remaining dough I made four little buns that went right into the freezer to be eaten any other day.

I got the recipe and the kneading intructions from dailydelicious. This blog is my favorite because it has yummy food recipes, beautiful photos and the blogger ilustrates all the steps (and that's the dearest feature for a dummy like me).
This was my fourth attemp at bread making (the previous three were just a disaster), and looks like I finally managed to make it right (thanks again to the step by step ilustrated intructions XD). The rolls were tasty and the bread was well done, not overcooked not undercooked, but I had to bake it for 3 more minutes than the recipe states.