As I mentioned in a fairly recent post, my kitchen experiments are gonna involve yeast on a regular basis. I plan to bake at least one yeast bread per week, probably more if I cannot stop myself.
Drawing from what I already had in the kitchen, I came up with my own version of wholewheat bread. Though the end result was slightly more dense than my usual breads and did not keep for long, I was quite pleased with its overall texture. To be served along with your favourite cheese spread.
100% WHOLEWHEAT BREAD
Ingredients:
3 1/2 cups wholewheat flour
2 tbs sugar
10g instant yeast
1 tsp salt
2 tbs plain yogurt
1 cup water
3 tbs butter
Method:
- In the bowl of your stand mixer, fitted with dough hook, combine together flour, sugar and salt.
- Heat water, butter and yogurt until butter melts.
- Remove from heat and cool till lukewarm to touch.
- Pour liquid mixture into flour and knead well for 10 -12 minutes until dough is smooth and elastic.
- Cover bowl with clingwrap and leave to prove in a warm place for about 1 hour. Dough should double in volume.
- After 1st proving, punch down dough on a lightly floured surface and roll out into a 12″x7″ rectangle.
- Starting from the shorter end, roll up tightly as you would for a jelly roll. Pinch seams and ends to seal.
- Place seam side down in a lightly greased 7″x3″ loaf pan.
- Cover loaf with a damp towel and leave to rise for another 1 hour. After it has doubled in size, brush with milk glaze.
- Bake at 375 oF for 30-35 minutes or until bottom of loaf sounds hollow when tapped. Cool completely on a wire rack before slicing.
These deliciously rich cupcakes remind me of one of my favourite childhood treats – Nutella. My dad used to get me those 20g square packages that came with a small wooden spatula. I now buy jars of the chocolatey hazelnut spread for breakfast and also as a baking ingredient esp for making Nutella cupcakes.
Taken from BakingBites, this recipe is one I usually keep for emergencies like unexpected guests or baking on the eve of my night shifts. To give you an idea about how easy it is to make these Nutella cupcakes, I made them under 1/2 hour to bring to work on a Tuesday morning without being late for my 9 am ward round. That includes the rapidfire photo shoot you get to see below!
NUTELLA CUPCAKES
Ingredients:
125 g unsalted butter, softened
1/2 cup white granulated sugar
3 large eggs, room temperature
1/2 tsp vanilla extract
200 g all purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
Pinch of salt
Nutella spread
Method:
- Preheat oven to 325 oF. Line muffin pan with paper liners.
- Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, for 2 minutes.
- Add eggs, then add vanilla. Stir in flour, salt and baking powder until uniformly distributed throughout batter.
- Using a tablespoon, fill each muffin cup with 1 tbs batter.
- Add 1 tsp of Nutella and cover with another tbs of batter.
- Top each cupcake with 1 heaping teaspoon of Nutella and use a toothpick to create pretty swirls.
- Bake for 20 minutes or until a cake tester comes out clean.
- Remove to a wire rack to cool completely before serving.
- You wish to replace Nutella with your favourite chocolate or some other filling like peanut butter. Makes 12 cupcakes.
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December 5, 2010 at 9:36 pm
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December 6, 2010 at 1:52 pm
nabeela
hmmm the nutella cupcake look lovely
December 10, 2010 at 8:22 pm
shoba
hi.looks delish! (as usual).Can you plz tell me which wholewheat flour you used? Thks.
December 13, 2010 at 3:56 am
prerrnamirchi
hi shoba! For my breads and cakes I use Blédor brand, a locally milled flour. For this particular bread I used their Atta range, a mixture of 77% whole wheat A30 and 23%Pollard.
June 26, 2013 at 3:52 am
zeba joomun
sorry to say but where is the salt in the list of ingredient
June 26, 2013 at 11:00 am
prerrnamirchi
Oops forgot the salt. Thanks for updating my ingredient list 🙂
May 12, 2014 at 8:43 am
Gavnisha
Please tell me the exact amount in grams for the 3 and a half cup of whole wheat and the exact amount of water in milimeter for the whole wheat bread.Please can you tell me if it can be store in fridge for 2 weeks.
May 25, 2014 at 5:18 pm
prerrnamirchi
hi I have to measure and tell u the exact amount but u can always use conversion tables found on the net for approximation. I dnt think it can be stored for so long, have never tried with any of my homemade breads. they are usually over within one day or less 🙂