Maple Syrup Loaf

Riding on the World Bread Day fuzz and had nothing on at all today I started fiddling in my kitchen. Cakes...cookies...no, no, no being lazy, the easiest thing to tackle will be a loaf bread. Killing two birds with one stone - an easy bake and yet a good way to idle off the hours in the morning.

Thanks to the wonder of bread machine, baking bread can never be easier but it is sort of time consuming because I only use the dough cycle and the rest will be manual. It's really funny, machine-baked bread is always not soft...especially the recipes from the bread machine manual. I don't know about you but my family and I are all spoilt palately...we only like soft bread.

This bread is rather soft and has a nice aroma from the maple syrup used. My dd ate 2 slices for her tea-break and kept commenting about the nice aroma from the maple syrup. Do try it out if you need to idle off the morning hours like me!



Ingredients:
220g bread flour
100g cake flour
6g salt
15g sugar
1 egg + water = 170g
60g maple syrup
4g yeast
15g butter

Method:
1. Put all the liquid ingredients into the bread machine followed by sugar, flours, salt and yeast.
2. Start the dough cycle, after 10 minutes add in the butter and let it mix and knead for another 10 minutes.
3. Turn off the bread machine and restart the dough cycle. Let the cycle complete itself which is 1 hr 20 minutes for my machine.
4. Remove dough from machine, punch out the air and prove for another 30 - 45 minutes.
5. Divide dough into 2 portion and roll it Swiss roll-style into a long dough.
6. Place the dough pieces into a well-greased loaf pan and prove for 60 minutes.
7. Bake at 175C for 10 minutes and 160C for 20 minutes.

Notes:
If the dough is sticky just use more hand flour when handling dough.