Halloween Swirl Sandwich Bread
Make you boring sandwiches exciting and celebrate the season with this soft and fully sandwich bread
Ingredients
- 2½ cup warm water
- 1 tbsp active dry yeast
- 1 tbsp sugar
- 6½ cup flour
- 2 tsp salt
- ¼ cup vegetable oil
- gel food coloring purple, black, orange
Instructions
- in the bowl of a stand mixer add warm water, yeast and sugar.
- allow the yeast to proof for about 5 minutes or until you start to see bubble begin to form
- add the flour, salt and oil
- mix on low speed using the dough hook on your stan mixer
- allow the dough to come together but not quite smooth yet
- remove dough from the bowl and divide in 4
- add a drop of colour in each portion of dough and starting with the lightest colour add the dough back into the stand mixer and kneed the colour into the dough
- repeating this process with each portion until they all have colour
- kneed by hand each piece until firm and smooth. its ok if the colour looks a bit marbled
- place each ball of dough into a greased bowl, cover with a clean towel and allow to rise or 1 hour
- punch down the risen dough and divide each colour in half
- flatten out each half into long rectangles as long as you can get and as wide as your bread pans are long.
- repeat with each colour and layer each on top of one another until you have two long rectangles with all 4 colours on top of one another
- prepare two bread pan with cooking spray or parchment paper
- take one of the dough rectangles and place it in front of you with the short side close to you and the long edges on either side
- starting with the edge close to you begin to roll as tight as possible
- repeat with the second loaf
- place each loaf into their bread pans seam side down, cover with a towel and allow to rise for 1 more hour.
- preheat oven to 375℉ using the convection setting if your oven has one
- bake for for 30 min
- remove bread from the pans as soon as you take them out of the oven and allow them to cool on a cooling rack
- allow the bread to cool completely before slicing in. the bread is still cooking as it cools and if you slice it hot you will have a mushy texture inside.