Bespoke Baking - Leopard Print Bread

While on our spring break, we received a lovely email from one of our German customers, Torsten, with a delicious leopard bread recipe.

Unique and fabulous just like his leopard print onesie, we just had to share this recipe with you all!

Step wise tutorial for leopard bread

In active time: 1 1/2 hours + 40 minutes (first and second rise ) Baking time : 35 minutes Baking temperature :160 c source :you tube

Ingredients

375  gms / 2 1/2 cup - all purpose flour (maida)

35 gms/ 2 tbsp + 2 tsp sugar

1 tsp - instant yeast

1 cup /250 ml -milk

20 gms / 1 1/2 tbsp butter

1/2 tsp - fine salt

Brown patch:

3 tbsp - cocoa powder

1 1/2 tbsp- milk

Green patch

3 tsp - cocoa powder

1/2 tsp -blue colour

1  tbsp - milk

Procedure

1.Measure the ingredients. Add salt to the flour and mix all ingredients except butter in milk and stir until sugar is dissolved.

2. Add this mixture to flour and knead it into dough. Initially it will be sticky but after kneading for 5 minutes it will turn soft.

3. Now add butter and knead for another 3-4 minutes. Do the 'window test' to know if your dough is done. Take a small piece of dough stretch it with your fingers and hold it against the window the dough should not tear and it should stretch thin.

4. Now divide the dough into two parts one slightly larger than the other. One dough should weigh 320 gms.

6. Place the dough weighing 320 gms covered in a warm place until doubled. 

7. To the second part of the dough add ingredients mentioned under BROWN PATCH .

8. Knead it to a soft dough,with uniform brown colour.

9. Now divide it into two half one slightly larger than the other. One half should weigh 205  grams.

10. Place the dough weighing 205 grams in a bowl covered to rise in a warm place. 

11. To the remaining dough add ingredients listed under GREEN PATCHES  and knead into a uniform soft dough.

12. Cover it and allow to rise until it doubles ,it took 1 1/2  hour for me.

13.Now divide the three dough into 7 parts each .

a.Brown balls : 5 small, 2 slightly bigger (refer pic) b.Green balls: 5 small, 2 slightly bigger (refer pic) c.white balls; 5 small, 2 slightly bigger (refer pic)

14. Take the brown ball roll it in the shape of oblong, roll it in cylindrical shape.

15. Take the green ball, roll it in the same manner, place the brown roll in the green oblong and close it. The brown part should be visible (refer pic). Make sure you are rolling it the size of the loaf tin you are using.

16. Now take the white ball and roll it in the same manner. Place the coloured log in it and seal the dough .

17. Now roll it the size double of the tin.

18. Continue in the similar way for all the balls making sure that large balls are rolled with large coloured balls and small one with small coloured balls.

19.   Cut the log into 2 halves and place it in the tin randomly.

20. Cover and leave in a warm place until it doubles in size.

21. Brush it with milk and bake in a preheated oven  at 160 c for 35 minutes or until done.

22. Allow it to cool to room temperature on a wire rack before slicing.

Why not have a go at baking Leopard Print bread in your Onesie?