Tuesday, January 24, 2012

Apple Pull Apart Bread (Bread machine dough recipe)

This stuff is AMAZING!  (icing not shown on the bread)

What I did is made a basic sweet dough in the bread machine.

BASIC SWEET DOUGH

1 cup water
2 eggs (or egg replacer)
1/4 cup butter or margarine (we use Earth Balance Soy Free)
2 tsp salt
4 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup sugar
3 tbsp skim milk powder (we omit this entirely and it turns out fine)
2 tsp quick rise yeast (we use bread machine yeast)


FILLING INGREDIENTS
2 apples, peeled, cored and chopped finely
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tbsp sugar

Combine filling ingredients, and set aside

Add ingredients in order listed, and select the DOUGH option.  Once the dough is finished, remove from the bread machine.  On a lightly floured surface, punch down the dough and cut into 2 equal pieces.  Cut each of those pieces into 8-10 pieces.  Roll out each small piece into a circle.  Put half a tsp of filling (see the rest of the instructions for ingredients for it) and pinch the edges together, kind of like a dumpling. 

Dip the balls into melted butter or margerine (I melted 2 tbsp of earth balance) and put 8 or so balls into a tube or bundt pan.  Spoon some of the apple mixture over the layer of balls, then repeat until you're out of dough.  Spoon any remaining apple mix over the top, let it fall in between the dough balls etc. 
Bake at 350F for 35-40 minutes or until golden brown. 

ICING
1 cup icing sugar
3 to 4.5 tsp hot water
1/2 tsp vanilla

Combine icing ingredients.  Remove bread from pan to wire rack and drizzle icing over bread. 
Enjoy!

Sunday, January 1, 2012

Easy and delicious chocolate dipped Pretzels!

OK so, I took the easy route and used Rolled Gold pretzel twists (dairy, egg, soy and nut free). 
This was so simple and tastes delicious! 






I had just under half a bag of Enjoy Life Chocolate Chips (free of most allergens)
I put them in a sauce pan combined with
1 tsp shortening (I use Tenderflake, but check your ingredients as not all brands are soy free)
over low/medium heat, stir until melted and liquidy.

Toss in your pretzels, one at a time, and lift out with a fork once entire pretzel is coated in chocolate.
Shake gently to remove any excess chocolate (does excess chocolate really exist?  there is never enough chocolate in my opinion!)
Lie flat on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.  Cool in the fridge until chocolate is set.

Simple!