Buttery fan bread

4 comments   |   Category: Baking, Home Cooking   |   Posted by: evane

Some time ago, I twittered a photo of some freshly baked butter bread. A Twitter user requested the recipe (sorry I can’t remember your name, and I can’t seem to find your tweet). So here it is!

This is a great recipe because a) the dough is sweet and buttery and yummy and b)The slices peel easily off the ‘muffin’ which is very convenient and pretty cool too.

This recipe is actually a combination of two recipes, brought to you courtesy of my mother. She’s quite technologically literate and surfs recipe blogs and youtube with ease.

The first part is the bread dough itself. We can’t find the person who originally posted this up, but kudos to her because it is an awesome recipe.

My Sweet Butter Bread
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It is so easy to make and even better to eat.

Makes a 1 1/2 pound loaf

1/2 cups milk
1/3 cups water
1 egg
56.7g butter, softened
1 tsp salt
3 1/3 cups Bread flour
1/4 cups sugar
2 tsp Yeast

1. Put all dry ingredients in bowl and mix with flat beater for 30 sec.
2. Add egg and butter, mix another 30 sec.
3. Change to dough hook or spiral.
4. Add fluid at room temperature slowly until a dough ball forms and pulls away from the sides of the bowl.
5. Knead for 2-4 min.
6. Place in oiled bowl and let rise until doubled.
7. Punch down, knead lightly, shape and put into bread pan.
8. Allow to rise until about an inch above the edge of the pan.
9. Bake in 180°C oven for 30 min. Cover top last 10 min to prevent over browning.

Have lots of butter ready to enjoy with this bread. It also makes great french toast.

If you want it in a fan shape, stop at step 7. After punching it down and kneading it lightly, shape the dough according to this youtube video:

Roll it out into an approximate rectangle, about 8mm thick. Butter the top surface of the dough. Slice them up and stack them up. Slice again so you get neat squares, and stack again. Put about 5 of these stacked squares edges facing up into each cavity in a muffin pan. Butter the top again. You can sprinkle some seeds or nuts on top. I personally like sesame seeds.

Let the dough in the muffin pan rise again. It may double in size. This may take half an hour to an hour. A quick way to do this is to microwave a cup of water for about 1 minute, then quickly shove the muffin pan into the microwave (with the cup of water still there). The warm humid air allows the dough to rise more quickly.

After that, bake as per step 9 above.

Yum.

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