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| A LOVE FOR BREAD ART |
Beauty
surrounded the Daring Bakers this month as our host, Sawsan, of chef
in disguise, challenged us to make beautiful, filled breads. Who
knew breads could look as great as they taste?
This
was the brief for the February challenge and it was a challenge I
really enjoyed. I still like the whole breadmaking process even after
making breads for so long, but I have wanted to it to be a little
"different" and bread art is the perfect way to liven it up
a bit.
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| Cinnamon sweet bread |
Sawsan
gave recipes and showed us how to shape two breads: one is
a cinnamon
sweet bread and
the other a Nutella
twist. I used my own recipe for the dough but filled and shaped
them as suggested. Because my loaves were smaller, I couldn't make
enough slits in my Nutella bread (pictured below) to get properly
shaped twists. But even with a less elaborate pattern, I still liked
how the bread turned out.
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| Nutella twist |
This
year, Valentine's Day coincided with Chap
Goh Meh (lovers' day in Chinese custom) and my
section head decided we would have an office party to celebrate it.
With the love theme, how could I not come up with a heart-shaped
item?
Of
course, it had to be bread. It's filled with a savoury chilli-date paste and shaped using instructions
from this site. I added Cupid's arrow, although it is a little misshapen!
I will definitely be trying out more bread art from now on.