Vegan Pink Cheetah Bread Recipe

Bread making is one of life’s simple pleasures, but a great luxury.

Time, effort, and love, all put into one wholesome loaf.

Or in this case, many tiny rolls, eagerly awaiting to be served with a nourishing bowl of soup, or a simple sliver or vegan butter.

It truly is amazing to realise how much can be made with a handful of ingredients; a bit of flour, some water, a touch of fresh yeast, and salt.

Supremely soft, with a lovely, golden crust, and a slight hint of sweetness, they are perfect just served on their own, really, but also delicious as a part of a meal.

ingredients :

Dough:

• 375 g bread flour
• 35 g cane sugar
• 1 tsp instant yeast
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 250 ml almond milk (warm)
• 20 g plant-based unsalted butter, softened

Spots:

• 1 tbsp. purple sweet potato powder + 1 tbsp of water stir until dissolved (purple spots)
• 1 tbsp. charcoal powder + 1 tbsp of water (black spots)

Preparation:

1. Combine plain dough ingredients in the bowl of a stand mixer. Knead till the dough turns into a smooth, elastic ball. Stretch the dough to check if it forms a thin membrane-like layer. Continue kneading if it doesn’t.
2. Divide the plain dough into two halves. Divide one of the halves into two smaller portions. You should end up with ½ a plain dough and two ¼ doughs.
3. Add your purple-pinkish natural food dye to one of the ¼ sections. Knead till you at the evenly colored dough.
4. Repeat step 3 with the other ¼ section while adding the charcoal dye.
5. Proof your dough in three individual bowls. Set aside to let them rise for 1 hr (or the dough doubles in volume).
6. After proofing, divide each dough ball into 5 pcs.
7. Roll one of the black pcs into a thin rope as long as your loaf pan.
8. Repeat step 7 with the purple-pink dough.
9. Place the black rope in the center of the purple one. Then wrap the purple-pink dough over the black one.
10. Roll the plain dough into a flat rectangle, slightly longer than the previous ropes.
11. Tuck the colored rope into the white dough and seal it well.
12. Slice the rope in half and place the white dough with purple-black rope inside a greased loaf pan. (Watch the reel for more clarity).
13. Repeat steps 7-12 with the remaining pieces of dough.
14. Cover the loaf pan and set it aside to rise. (Approx.40 mins or until doubled in volume)
15. Preheat the oven to 350 F / 180C.
16. Bake (40 mins).
17. Remove freshly baked bread from the pan and onto a cooling rack 10 mins after taking the loaf out of the oven.
18. Cut to reveal the surprise print.