Koko Bread

I didn't hateful for you lot all to live on staring at Goddess's tuiga for a calendar month (gorgeous every bit they are) , but I broke my arm , then I haven't been able to prepare much. Or at all , really.

Anyway , my proficient arm is even then able to type in addition to when the one-handed typing gets likewise much , moving-picture exhibit me alongside a pen inward my oral fissure , tears streaming downward my cheeks , painfully tapping out each private alphabetic lineament on my keyboard.

Yeah , I know what you're thinking. 'Tell it to Oprah - Where's our recipe?'

Okay , fine , fine , hither it is. This is something I made a spell dorsum when I was feeling experimental. It's a rich egg breadstuff ribboned alongside koko samoa. You tin substitute cocoa if you lot like.

Ain't it purty?

You'll convey to forgive the unimaginative name. I did reckon some others - Tree Bark Bread , Ebony in addition to Ivory , Striation Celebration. But I remember when I broke my arm , I must've fractured my inventiveness likewise because those names are only obviously sad. If you lot tin remember of a ameliorate advert for our breadstuff , allow me know.

Koko Bread

Makes 1 loaf

Dough:

1 loving cup milk

2¼ teaspoons active dried yeast

¼ loving cup sugar

½ teaspoon salt

¼ loving cup liquid kokosnoot fossil oil or softened butter

2 egg yolks

2½ -3½ cups breadstuff flour

Glaze:

1 egg white

1 teaspoon milk

Heat the milk until scalding in addition to pour into a large bowl in addition to larn out to cool. When the milk has cooled to warm , add together the yeast , saccharide , common salt , kokosnoot fossil oil , egg yolks in addition to 2 cups of the flour in addition to mix well. Gradually add together the residue of the flour , adding every bit much every bit you lot involve to brand a dough that comes away from the sides of the bowl (you may non involve all of it). Knead the dough for at to the lowest degree 10 minutes until it is soft in addition to pliable. Place the dough inward a greased bowl in addition to cover. Leave to double (1-1 ½ hours).

In the meantime , brand the koko paste.

Koko Paste:

2½ tablespoons flour

¼ loving cup sugar

1 egg white

1/3 loving cup milk

¼ loving cup finely terra firma Koko Samoa or unsweetened cocoa powder

2 teaspoons kokosnoot fossil oil or butter

Mix the flour , saccharide in addition to egg white inward a loving cup or modest bowl in addition to laid aside.

Warm the milk (don’t boil) in addition to dissolve the koko or cocoa pulverization inward it. If using koko , strain into a modest pot in addition to discard the nibs. Add the egg white mixture stirring until combined. Heat over depression estrus until it thickens into a paste. Add the kokosnoot fossil oil or butter in addition to mix well. Remove the glue to a slice of baking newspaper in addition to larn out it to cool slightly. Covering it alongside some other slice of baking newspaper , gyre the glue out into a rectangle about 6 x 8 inches(15 x twenty cm) and house inward the fridge until needed.

When the dough has doubled , punch it downward in addition to allow it residue for 10 minutes. Roll the dough out into a large rectangle a niggling bigger than the koko paste. Place the refrigerated glue inward the centre in addition to seal it inward alongside the breadstuff dough , taking assist to press out whatsoever bubbles. Roll the dough upwardly jellyroll mode , in addition to carve upwardly the log lengthways , almost inward ii , but non quite. Twist the ii pieces together then that the cutting edges are facing outwards , tucking the ends nether the loaf. Place into a well-greased loaf tin in addition to larn out to double inward size. Brush alongside glaze.

Bake at 160°C (325°F) for 45-55 minutes.

Enjoy this warm from the oven , in addition to serve alongside a hot loving cup of anything but koko samoa.