Cinnamon Tea Bun

I definitely recommend this!
Especially if you want to dazzle people with your 'from scratch' baking skills!


1 sachet Tandaco Dry Yeast
3.5 cups plain flour
1 tsp salt
1/4 cup sugar
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp mixed spice
1 cup warm milk
1 tbsp melted butter
1 egg, lightly beaten


1 egg
1 tbsp milk


Icing:
60g butter
1 cup sifted icing sugar
1 tbsp milk
pink food colouring


- Mix dry ingredients in a large bowl. Add milk, butter and egg. Mix well to form a soft dough. Knead for 10 minutes until smooth and elastic.
- Place dough in a greased bowl. Cover. Leave in a warm place to rise until doubled in volume (approx 1 hour).
- Knock down dough (punch once in the centre - fun!) then knead for 1 minute.
- Shape into an oval tea bun (I made 2 rounds). Place on a greased baking tray. Brush top of bun/s with water. Leave in a warm place until doubled in size (approx 45 min).
- Brush bun/s with egg/milk wash. Bake at 200C for approx 20-25 minutes. Cool on wire rack and ice when cool.


Icing:
Beat butter until light and fluffy, add icing sugar gradually as beating, beat in milk - add food dye (I used Wilton Gel Paste).


The package says to ice and sprinkle with pecans and cinnamon. But what I did was drop a little icing on while hot to make a glaze, sprinkled with cinnamon, then when cooled - iced and sprinkled with coconut!


And here's the deliciously finished product....

No Knead Cheddar Cheese Bread

Ok so the recipe makes 2 loaves, I only have 1 bread mold (and even then there was too much! so I made some extra rolls with the leftovers).

So here are the measurements I used....

1 package active dry yeast
6 tblsp warm water
1.5 cups shredded cheddar cheese
6 tblsp shredded Parmesan cheesea
1 cup milk
1.5 tbsp sugar
.5 tbsp butter melted
1 tsp salt
3 to 3.25 cups all plain flour

1 egg white beaten
1 tbsp water

Topping:
1/4 cup finely shredded cheddar cheese
1 garlic clove minced
1/4 tsp sesame seeds
1/4 tsp poppy seeds
1/4 tsp paprika

-In large bowl dissolve yeast in water, add the cheeses, milk, sugar, butter, salt and 3 cups of flour. Beat by hand or mixer about 3 minutes. Stir in enough remaining flour to make a firm dough.
-Do not knead, cover and let rise in warm place until doubled, about 1-2 hours
-Stir dough down, transfer to greased loaf pan. Cover and let rise until doubled about 30 minutes.
-In small bowl combine egg white and water. In another bowl combine topping ingredients. Brush loaf with egg white/water mixture, sprinkle with topping, bake at 190C for 25-30 minutes or until golden brown. Remove from pans and place on wire rack to cool.

Ok - I'm totally guilty, I cut into it while it was warm (not hot), I couldn't wait, it smelled amazing!

The original recipe calls for celery seed in the topping, I could only find celery salt and when I opened it and sniffed it - wow, no way way I putting it on! I did up the topping ingredients too, I'm a big fan of paprika and seeds! 

And here's a link to the original video;

Cheese Bread

Updatey!!

Ok, so it's been quite a few months since I posted anything - apologies to the few who actually read this!!
Work has been poo-house! Hence bringing me into a funk where I didn't even want to bake/cook!!
Anyway, thanks to 3 weeks leave (which I'm still on) I got up the desire to bake again!


So I spotted a 'no knead' cheese bread on one of my favourite YouTube channels (YoYoMax12 - check her out, she's incredible!) - I was so intrigued, but I've never used yeast before - so cautious as well!


Soooo, bought the ingredients - baked the bread! Soooo good (will be putting the recipe up!) and I found a little beauty on the back of the Tandaco Yeast box for a cinnamon tea bun! This is amazing! Steve even liked it (he wasn't keen on the cheese bread cos it was 'greasy' from the melted cheese - coming from a man who puts marmite and cheese on bread and shoves it in the microwave until it's soggy?! The bread was delicious! Ignore his opinion!).


So a few things I learned about yeast...
It's not as scary as I thought it would be!
I now know where the fresh bread gets that smell!
It takes a bloody long time to prep anything with yeast (yet very little cooking time it would seem?!) 
And, kneading dough is very therapeutic!


I hope you enjoy the recipes! 
I'll link to the YouTube video I got the bread from, because I didn't take a picture!