Wright's Parmesan Sun Dried Tomato Bread

The Wright's bread mix is so easy to use and yields a really good and tasty bread!

I made this bread today and it tasted really good. Wish I have some nice soup to go with it though :)

Ingredients
1 Pack of Wright's Parmesan Sun Dried Tomato Bread Mix
320ml Lukewarm Water

Method:
1. Place bread mix in the mixing bowl.
2. Add water and mix together for 5 mins to form a ball of dough
3. Place the dough on a floured surface and let it rise for 5 mins
4. Knead and stretch the dough for 2 mins and mould it into a ball
5. Shape the dough and place it into a large greased loaft tin. Mine loaft tin is about L10” x W4” by H4.5".
6. Cover with cling wrap and leave it in a warm place to rise for about 45 mins or until the dough has doubled in size.
7. Pre-heat oven to 230C
8. Uncover the bread dough and bake it in the over for about 30 mins for a loaf. 15 mins for rolls
9. Bake until it is golden brown and sounds hollow when you tab the base.
10. Turn out and cool on a wire rack

Cinnamon Rolls

I have been wanting to try baking bread for a long time but whenever I looked at the amount of time required just to prove the dough, I postpone my ideas :P

Today, I have managed to pluck up the courage to dive in and try my very first bread making. I choose the "simplest" dough making method that I can find from my recipe books and decided to make my favourite Cinnamon Rolls!

I have not even made my first swiss rolls and here I am trying to roll bread! I was practically laughing at myself for that!

The recipe calls for two eggs and there is no mention if it was supposed to be large eggs or regular eggs. I have two large eggs in my fridge and so I decided to use it and see how it will turn out.

Well, the dough was wet and not manageable at all, so I added in at least 3 tablespoonfuls fo flour just to get a good texture dough. In future, I will just stick to regular eggs for this recipe.

It was really a fun experience and when the rolls were baking in the oven, the aroma of the cinnamon was just insanely wonderful. It makes my house smell so lovely that my mouth watered just thinking of sinking my teeth into the rolls!

This recipe is a keeper for me. The rolls are so soft and fluffy and the cinnamon almond fillings are just heavenly. I really like the idea of adding ground almond to the cinnamon sugar. It just added the necessary Oomphs to the rolls.

Cinnamon Rolls
Yields about 12 Rolls

Ingredients A
300g Bread Flour
1/2 tsp Salt
50g Castor Sugar
1 tsp Instant Yeast
2 Regular Eggs, beaten slightly
75ml Milk
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract
60g Unsalted Butter, soften

Filling
60g Unsalted Butter, soften
50g Soft Brown Sugar
2 tsp Cinnamon Powder
50g Ground Almond

Methods

1. In a mixing bowl using a dough hook, mix A thoroughly , add eggs and milk and knead to form a soft and pliable dough. (About 3 mins).
2. Add butter and continue to knead till smooth and elastic (about 5-8 mins).
3. Cover and prove till double in bulk (about 1 hour).
4. Knead again till smooth. Rest for 15 mins to let it prove again.
5. Mix the brown sugar, cinnamon powder and ground almond together and set aside.
6. Roll into a square shape (use your baking pan for measurement)
7. Spread soft butter on the dough and generously sprinkle the cinnamon mixture on top of the buttered area.
8. Roll up, from the long side, like a swiss roll.
9. Shape the log to get a nice even width.
10. First cut the log into halve, and cut the rest of the pieces into halve again until you can achieve about 12 rolls.
11. Place the rolls close together (cut side up) on a greased 9 inch square tin.
12. Cover and let it prove till double in bulk (about 30-45 mins)

13. Bake at 190°C till golden brown (about 12-15 mins)

Lavender Lemon Pound Cake

I found this recipe some times back, and I have been wanting to try baking with dried flowers! I have seen cake & cookies baked with rose petals, etc. and more recently I kept hearing about lavenders!

I chanced upon a bottle of dried lavender flowers during my usual supermarket trip and I have decided to buy it and aimed to bake it soon.....hahahaha my soon turned out to be 3 months later.

This cake uses quite a lot of flour and I was rather uncomfortable with it as I was afraid that the cake may be really dense and hard. However, since I only found this receipe with Lavender, I have decided to just give it a go and see how it will turn out.... If you never try, you will never know.

It was getting exciting as the aroma started to rise and I cannot wait to taste the cake!

The cake was really dense as I expected and heavy. However, the aroma from the lavender and the wonderful lemon zests gave it a nice lift. I can only describe the experience after a bite as sensory wonders....savoring the wonderful aromatherapy session to my taste buds!

The cake tasted a lot better the next day but became a little harder the following day.

I will definitely bake with lavender again. However, I will use my favourite pound cake recipe and tweak it instead :)

I won't be posting the recipe this time as I only want to post recipes that, in my opinion, is good...hahahahaha... perfectionist lah... However, if you are still keen on having the current recipe, you can drop me a comment and if I gather enough request, I will definitely post it :)