I love eating cakes and I also love eating breads, especially those sweet ones. So what better way to satisfy my palate for both than to bake a loaf of cake bread. This is the first time I have made this combination - chocolate cake and bread. It turned out to be super soft (still very soft on the 3rd day). I will be making this again soon as it is so yummy. This success will spur me to create other combinations...perhaps orange cake and orange bread or chocolate orange sweet potato bread...the list goes on.
Ingredients:
- 375 g bread flour
- 30 g milk powder
- 200 g water
- 30 g sugar
- 7 g yeast
- 2 g salt
- 1 egg
- 30 g butter
- Add all the ingredients to the mixing bowl of a stand mixer except butter.
- Mix and knead them till a dough ball is formed.
- Add butter and continue to knead till window pane is achieved.
- Transfer dough to a clean greased bowl.
- Transfer the dough to the bowl and turn it around so that it is coated with oil. Cover the bowl with a cling wrap or a wet towel.
- Let the dough proof till it doubles in size.
- Transfer the dough to a lightly flour table top.
- Roll the dough into a rectangle.
- Fold the dough into 3 by bringing the right part onto the centre part followed by the left.
- Then roll the dough out again into a long rectangular shape (vertically) and fold into 3 again.
- Do this process at least 6 times (alternating between vertical and horizontal roll-outs) to get the "peeling effect".
- Roll up the dough into a log and place it into a loaf pan (9 inch x 4 inch x 4 inch).
- Cover the loaf pan with a cling wrap or wet towel and let the dough proof a second time.
- Meanwhile, prepare the batter for the cake.
Ingredients:
- 125 g butter
- 125 g castor sugar
- 2 grade A eggs
- 75 g self-raising flour
- 35 g cocoa powder
- 25 ml milk
Method:
- Sieve flour and cocoa powder twice. Set aside.
- Cream butter and sugar till the batter is light and creamy.
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time. Make sure that you beat each egg well before adding the next.
- Add the sifted dry ingredients, a third at a time, until they are well combined.
- Add in the milk. Mix well.
- Pour the batter into the loaf pan with the bread dough and bake them in a pre-heated oven at 175 deg C for about 40 minutes.
- Unmould the cake bread immediately after it is cooked and let it cool down on a metal rack. (For easier unmoulding, you may line your loaf pan with parchment paper.)
- Slice the cake bread after it has completely cooled down.
