Easter Bunny Bread

I've just finished another batch of  dairy-free and egg-free Easter Bunny Bread with homemade oat milk . I thought these pics were too cute not to post :-). Happy Easter !

Braided Easter Buns & Bread

These are soft easter rolls for easter sunday:

Ingredients:

150 g Dairy or Non-Dairy Milk

150 g Water

50 g Sweetener of Choice

40 g Yeast

20 g  Olive Oil

50 g Butter (or Oil)

150 g Spelt flour  or Red Fife (fresh milled)

450 g Flour

10 g Salt

Potatoes for Blindbaking

Method:

• Place sweetener, yeast, milk, water, oil and butter into bowl and warm for 2-3 min / 37°C / speed 2
• Add flour and salt. Set dial to closed lid and knead 4 min / Interval speed
• Remove 400 g off the dough and divide in 4 equal pieces. Roll into ropes, twist them together and shape into circles. Pinch the ends together and place a muffin liner with a potoato in the middle. Place on a greased baking sheet.
• Divide the left over dough for the easter bread into three and roll each into a long sausage shape. Pinch the ends of the three pieces together and braid into a loaf. Place on the baking sheet and brush all pieces with milk. Sprinkle sliced almonds and sugar ( I use maple sugar ) on the braided loaf.
• Place baking sheet into the cold oven. Let rise for 10 min at 50°C or keep warm cycle. Turn the temperature of the oven to 200°C and bake for 20 to 25 minutes.
• Replace the potatoes with turmeric coloured easter eggs or silk dyed eggs

Osternester und Hefezopf

Zutaten:

150 g Milch oder Alternative

150 g Wasser 

50 g Natuerliche Suesse nach Wahl

40 g Hefe

20 g Olivenoel

50 g Butter (oder Oel)

150 g Dinkel oder Red Fife (frisch gemahlen)

450 g Mehl

10 g Salz

Kartoffeln zum Blindbacken

Zubereitung:

• Suesse nach Wahl, Hefe, Milch, Wasser, Oel und Butter fuer 2-3 Min / 37°C / Stufe 2 erwaermen
• Mehle und Salz zugeben und  4 Min / Intervallstufe kneten.
• 400 g vom Teig abnehmen, in 4 Stuecke teilen und lange Rollen formen. Zu Kraenze schlingen und auf ein gefettetes Backblech legen. Eine Kartoffel mit Muffinform in die Mitte setzen. 
• Den restlichen Teig dritteln und einen Zopf flechten. Aufs Backblech setzen und die Gebaeckstuecke mit Milch einstreichen. Den Zopf mit Mandelplaettchen und Hagel - oder Ahornzucker bestreuen.
• Das Blech in den kalten Backofen geben. Fuer 10 Min auf Warmhaltestufe oder 50°C gehen lassen. den Backofen auf  200°C  hochschalten und fuer 20 bis 25 Minuten backen. Die Kartoffeln gegen  Kurkuma gefaerbte oder Krawatteneier austauschen.

Turmeric Coloured Easter Eggs

This is another way of colouring pre-boiled easter eggs naturally using fresh turmeric root. You might consider wearing kitchen gloves while handling turmeric rhizomes.

Ingredients:
Raw Eggs (room temperature)
Fresh Turmeric

Coconot Oil

Method:

• Steam your eggs with 500ml water for 14 min / Varoma / speed 1 in steaming basket or with 800ml water for 20 min / Varoma / speed 1
• Rinse under cold water to cool
• Slice the turmeric root with a vegetable peeler and rub on the eggs
• Wait until they are dry and rub a coat of coconut oil over the eggs

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Colouring easter eggs while boiling. The recipe for the silk tie dyed easter eggs and more pics here.

Tumeric root coloured egg wrapped in kale and steamed at the same time with the silk tie eggs

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Do you know where your eggs come from ?  How many chickens do you know that live in a school bus?

 
 
Kurkuma gefaerbte Ostereier
 
Mit dem im Kurkuma enthaltenen Farbstoff lassen sich sich Ostereier wunderbar natuerlich faerben. Allerdings sollte man mit Handschuhen arbeiten. Die Verfaerbungen an den Fingern verschwinden aber nach 2 Tagen von alleine.
 
Zutaten:
Eier
Frische Kurkumawurzel
Kokosoel
 
Zubereitung:

• Eier mit 500ml Wasser fuer 14 Min. / Varoma / Stufe 1 im Gaerkoerbchen oder mit 800ml Wasser fuer 20 Min / Varoma / Stufe 1 im Varomaaufsatz garen und kalt abschrecken
• Mit dem Gemueseschaeler vom Kurkumarhizom Streifen abschneiden und die Eier abreiben.
• Trocknen lassen und mit Kokosoel einreiben

Die Anleitung fuer die mit Seide gefaerbten Eier steht hier

Silk-Dyed Eggs

Easter is around the corner and I was dreaming: Martha Stewart, Oprah and I steaming some coloured eggs...lol. Too bad, she knows already about this technique.

My friend Hans shared almost 3 years ago his Family-Easter-Eggs-Dyeing-Event with me. They wrapped eggs with ugly, old pieces of silk from ties/scarves/old blouses and placed them in boiling water with vinegar. The silk was reused the other year.

I'm going to show this technique some TMX-Users and better check out the Thrift Store. My husband is not too happy to give more of his ties away.

Now, this is my way using the Varoma and the Thermomix:

Ingredients:

Raw Eggs ( room temperature)

100% Pure Silk Ties - lining removed

Yarn

Oil

Method:

• Cut silk in pieces -large enough to cover one egg- and moisten them with water
• Wrap silk -right side/print facing- with yarn around the eggs
• Place in the Varoma, add 800 ml of water in the TM-bowl and steam for 2o min/Varoma/speed 1
• Rinse under cold water and remove silk from cooled eggs
• Wipe them -for shiny eggs- with some Coconut Oil or any other oil

You might also like: Turmeric Coloured Easter Eggs

Krawatteneier

• nasse Seidenstuecke (Krawatte) um zimmerwarme Eier wickeln
• 20 Min/Varoma/Stufe 1 garen
• kalt abspuelen, abwickeln, einfetten und fertig