The Bread Baker’s Apprentice Challenge: No 11. Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread
It's time for another installment of my attempt to bake my way through Peter Reinhart’s wonderful book, The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread.
The eleventh recipe in the Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge is Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread.
I was looking forward to making this impressive looking sweet & spiced bread baked in a double braid. It all went according to plan, the dough came together wonderfuly and the kneading seemed effortless. I made two braids; a big one and a smaller one. I put the small braid on top of the large braid and set it aside. Yup, it was all good until the final proofing. I left the dough to proof too long and the bottom braid knocked the top braid off to the side. Disaster! I tried in vain to coax the little braid back on top of the main one but no luck. It was a mess. Sigh.
I decided to bake it anyway and although it may not have been as pretty as I would have liked, it was absolutely delicious. The flavour is sweet with just a hint of spice. Perfect served with an afternoon tea or coffee. Enjoy!
Show some love to the other challenge participants in this challenge.
Up next: English Muffins!
It's time for another installment of my attempt to bake my way through Peter Reinhart’s wonderful book, The Bread Baker's Apprentice: Mastering the Art of Extraordinary Bread.
The eleventh recipe in the Bread Baker's Apprentice Challenge is Cranberry Walnut Celebration Bread.
I was looking forward to making this impressive looking sweet & spiced bread baked in a double braid. It all went according to plan, the dough came together wonderfuly and the kneading seemed effortless. I made two braids; a big one and a smaller one. I put the small braid on top of the large braid and set it aside. Yup, it was all good until the final proofing. I left the dough to proof too long and the bottom braid knocked the top braid off to the side. Disaster! I tried in vain to coax the little braid back on top of the main one but no luck. It was a mess. Sigh.
I decided to bake it anyway and although it may not have been as pretty as I would have liked, it was absolutely delicious. The flavour is sweet with just a hint of spice. Perfect served with an afternoon tea or coffee. Enjoy!
Show some love to the other challenge participants in this challenge.
Up next: English Muffins!
11 comments:
It must taste heavenly! Magnificent!
Cheers,
Rosa
I would have never known that you had had a disaster. How pretty!
Fantastic bread!!
It looks pretty perfect to me!
It looks perfect to me! Doesn't even look like you had an issue.
Yum, great loaf!
Don't worry about double braid capsizes.. we have all had them!
Bet it tasted wonderful anyway.
oooh, looks so good! it almost seems like challah bread, which is one of my favorite things to make :)
omg, making english muffins is so fun! have a blast.
That looks so good...wish I was at your house! I just found your blog and LOVE it!
What a pretty loaf of bread - it looks perfect!
What a splendid loaf of bread!
beautiful shine!
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