Zebra Toast (Bread Machine Version)

Overview

After making leopard print toast, I was wondering if I could try something new. After thinking about it, zebra print seems to be good too. This time I used a bread machine to make it directly. From kneading to fermentation to baking, a bread machine can do it all. The finished product is also good, every piece is a surprise after cutting it. Come to think of it, that’s where the fun of baking lies.

Tags

• baking
• home cooking
• afternoon tea
• students
• bamboo charcoal powder
• butter
• egg liquid
• high gluten flour
• sugar
• yeast
• milk
• salt

Ingredients

Steps

1. 1 Except for butter, put the other raw materials in the dough into the bread barrel in the order of liquid in the bottom layer, powder in the middle layer, sugar, salt and yeast in the upper layer. Be careful not to let the yeast come into direct contact with the sugar and salt. Start a kneading process, knead until a thick film can be drawn out, and then add softened butter.

   

2. 2 Start the dough kneading process again for 15 minutes. After kneading to the expansion stage, a thinner film can be stretched out.

   

3. 3 Take out a quarter of the dough, add bamboo charcoal powder and knead it evenly, so that you get two colored doughs.

   

4. 4 After the two doughs are reunited, put them into a bread barrel, and separate the two colored doughs with oil paper. Cover the bread and start the fermentation process for 40 minutes.

   

5. 5 When the dough has doubled in size, dip your finger in flour and poke a hole. If it does not shrink or collapse, it means the fermentation is complete.

   

6. 6 Press and deflate the fermented dough, or you can use a rolling pin to deflate the dough. After the deflated dough is rounded, cover it with plastic wrap and rest for 15 minutes.

   

7. 7 Use a rolling pin to roll the relaxed dough into a rectangular shape. The black dough accounts for about one-third of the original dough.

   

8. 8 Place the black dough in the center of the plain dough.

   

9. 9 Overlap the two sides, that is, fold it into three.

   

10. 10 Fold it in thirds horizontally again.

    

11. 11 Then cover with plastic wrap and rest for 15 minutes.

    

12. 12 Roll out the rested dough into a rectangular shape again.

    

13. 13 Fold it in thirds again, cover it with plastic wrap and let it rest for 15 minutes.

    

14. 14 Flatten the rested dough into a small long strip.

    

15. 15 Use a spatula to divide the dough into 3 parts, remembering not to cut off the beginning.

    

16. 16 Braid the dough into a braid shape and pinch tightly.

    

17. 17 After the dough is processed, put it into the bread box, and then put it into the bread machine for the second fermentation.

    

18. 18 Ferment until doubled in size, about 60% of the height of the bread barrel.

    

19. 19 Start the bread machine in baking mode for 40 minutes.

    

20. 20 Unmold the baked dough immediately and let it cool on a baking sheet before slicing.

    

21. 21 Each piece has a different pattern.