A Closer Look At Cuban Bread

So today we made cuban bread. I had made this one day in baking class but we needed bread and it is such an easy recipe that we decided to make it and include a recipe and a video. :)

We made it with added whole wheat flour....so it turned out a bit different than the one at school. Also we made rounder balls for the loaves, at school the loaves were flatter, more disk like.

Cuban Bread

3 1/2 cups of white flour
1 1/3 cups of whole wheat flour
1 tbsp of sugar
1 tsp of salt
1 tbsp + 1/2 tsp dry active yeast
just under 2 cups of warm water

Soften the yeast in the warm water. Swish it around to break up any lumps. Let sit until you start to see a few bubbles.

Add the flour, sugar and salt. Mix well until water is absorbed. Turn out on to a lightly floured surface. Gently knead the dough until it forms a soft smooth uniform dough; about 8-10 minutes.

Place the dough in a greased bowl covered with saran wrap until it is doubled in size.

Roll out onto a lightly floured surface and flatten all the bubbles out. Divide your dough in to sections and knead. Round into balls and let rest for about 10 minutes. Knead the balls again and form into shapes. We did round loaves but you could do any shape you want.

Place the loaves on a baking sheet, flour the tops and lightly score. Place in a warm area to proof until double in size.

Bake for roughly 20-25 minutes in a 400 degree oven.

Slice and slather with butter! Not margarine ........BUTTER! lol

This video is a kinda how-to and of course bits of it are done "chip and dale" style!! It actually is instructional and not as silly as the last one! Enjoy!

More Bread.....

Today we made Cuban bread. Very easy to make. It was my favorite so far.....moist and a bit dense. Yummy!

We also made a french bread dough and instead of making a baguette with it we got to shape it in to rolls. We each rolled 3 different shapes. They were fun to make. Some were a bit harder to get the hang of though.

Breads

Today at school we made some onion rye bread. It smelled wonderful! And was so easy to make. The hardest part was soaking the dehydrated onions to soften them up! It is rolled into a disk, dusted with flour and then two cookie cutters are used to allow for the to dough pop up.

We also made challah. It is hard to tell but it is braided with 5 strands of dough! It was interesting to braid....but after Chef made me redo it a couple of times I finally got it. lol
It is brushed with an egg wash and then black sesame seeds sprinkled on.