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Eggless Easter Bread Recipe, How to make Easter Bread Recipe | Easter Recipes

June 14, 2019 by maria 4 Comments

Eggless Easter Bread recipe which is a full-proof, tried and tested recipe at home. We always make this home and is love by our family. This bread is eggless yet has a great texture and taste like any normal bread does. I am posting this much before Easter so that I have ample of time posting more recipe till easter actually arrives 😉  There are many traditional breads made across the world during Easter. In India we make hot cross buns more than the Easter bread.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe, How to make Easter Bread Recipe | Easter Recipes

Across the globe traditional easter bread like Paska Bread, Easter Dove Bread, Cozonac Bread, Kulich Bread, Kolach Bread and Italian Braided bread are made with dyed eggs. Mostly any easter bread is sweet, is braided, bright, beautiful and also has dyed eggs. Since this is an eggless recipe I have added cherries instead of dyed eggs. The red dyed eggs signifies the blood of Jesus christ hence used the glazed cherries for my bread.

This bread is rich, has a great texture, goes well with butter or cheese and a hot cup of tea. We love this bread and I generally warm them and apply some butter or cheese and my breakfast is sorted 😉  This bread would stay for a longer time if wrapped and kept in the freezer. It’s a great idea to distribute them as Easter goodies. You could make small buns or small bread loaf for distribution.

Now I have incorporated a braided bread with the loaf and also made a plain loaf bread. So if you have the time you could make the braid or just make a plain loaf bread. Adding cherries are optional. To sweeten them have added tutti frutti or sweetened papaya in the bread. To give the bread a gentle yellow color I have used saffron but that’s optional. If you don’t have saffron just use a mild yellow color or don’t add any color. Also nuts are used in the Easter bread but that’s optional.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

Always remember if you decide to make bread always make them a day prior as this saves a lot of time. I generally start making bread early morning so that my bread has enough time to be leavened and made before evening. As the entire bread making process takes about 2-3 hrs depending on the humidity and weather of your country. So if you baking breads make them in advance. Once they are leavened you could cover the dough with a cling film and chill in the fridge. Make your bread the next day. Hope this suggestion throws more light and helps you.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

Let’s make step by step Eggless Easter Bread Recipe:

1. Firstly add saffron strands or yellow color in hot water. Grease your loaf pans with butter and place aside.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

2. Place it aside for 10-15 mins it would start coloring.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

3. At this point add the melted butter in the saffron mixture. Combine all nicely.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

4. Sift the flour, milk powder, corn flour, nutmeg powder and salt.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

5. Make a small well in the sifted flour.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

6. Pour the saffron – butter mixture.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

7. Also add the active yeast or dry yeast at this time.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

8. Now start kneading the dough with your full stamina.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

9. Until it appears like this.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

10. Now wrap with a cling film or a damp cloth and allow the dough to rest in a humid area. I kept mine in the oven with the light on. You could also keep them in sunlight if the weather is too cold.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

11. About 20-30 mins the dough would double up in size. Again lightly knead the dough and add the candied tutti frutti.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

12. Mix them with the dough nicely

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

13. Wrap with a damp cloth and allow to rest to leaven for 20 mins more.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

14. Now remove a quarter part of dough and keep aside if you want to make braids for your bread. Else skip this part if you just want to make  a loaf. Make small balls from the dough. Shape them into thin logs like these.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

15. Just remember how you tie a plait with your hair. Similar fashion pinch three thin logs on the top and braid then gently. If they break fix with a little dough and start again.  Check your pan size and make the braid accordingly.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

16. At this point of time you could grease the pans. Place the leavened bread on the greased pans. If you want to attach the braids then shape the dough into oval or round shape. Gently attach the braids around the bread or decorate them on the top. However you want to decorate your bread do that use your own creativity.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

17. You could make cross or a star anything you could think of. Place some glazed cherries over the braids.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

18. Again allow the dough to rest in a humid place with a covered damp cloth until they are doubled in size. Just brush the bread with milk-butter mixture before baking.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

19. Bake in preheated oven at 200ºC exactly fifteen mins before baking. Bake for 30-35 mins or until the bread sounds hollow and is baked evenly. Again brush with the milk-butter mixture over the bread. Allow to cool dust with icing sugar.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

20. Slice and serve your eggless easter bread with butter, cheese or honey. This bread tastes best the next day.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe

21. If using fresh yeast or dry active yeast then take about 1.5 tbsp yeast, 2 tbsp sugar and 3 tbsp lukewarm water. The water should be hot enough to dip your finger, it shouldn’t be more hot else the yeast would die. Combine water, yeast and sugar into a mixing bowl. Stir and keep side at a humid place. After 7-8 mins the mixture should appear frothy, if not frothy then change the yeast and start the process again. Use this frothed yeast in the dough and follow the same instructions as stated above.

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe below:

Eggless Easter Bread Recipe - How to make Easter Bread Recipe | Easter Recipes
 
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Prep time
1 hour
Cook time
2 hours
Total time
3 hours
 
Eggless Easter Bread recipe which is a full-proof, tried and tested recipe at home. This bread is rich, has a great texture, goes well with butter or cheese and a hot cup of tea.
Recipe type: Side, Vegetarian
RecipeCuisine: General
Serves: 10-12
recipeIngredient (used american measuring cup, 1 cup = 250 ml)
  • 350 gm all purpose flour or refined flour (maida)
  • 1 tsp saffron strands or yellow color + 2 tbsp hot water
  • 8 gm dry active yeast
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp corn flour or polenta
  • 3 tbsp milk powder
  • ½ tsp nutmeg powder
  • 1 cup tutti frutti or dried candied papaya
  • 150 ml lukewarm water or as required
  • 5 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 1 tbsp milk + 1 tbsp warm butter for brushing over the bread
  • 10-12 glazed cherries
  • some icing sugar for garnish
How to make the recipe?
  1. Firstly add saffron strands or yellow color in hot water. Grease your loaf pans with butter and place aside.
  2. Place it aside for 10-15 mins it would start coloring.
  3. At this point add the melted butter in the saffron mixture. Combine all nicely.
  4. Sift the flour, milk powder, corn flour, nutmeg powder and salt.
  5. Make a small well in the sifted flour.
  6. Pour the saffron - butter mixture and also add the active yeast at this time.
  7. Now start kneading the dough with your full stamina. Untiil the dough is soft and smooth.
  8. Now wrap with a cling film or a damp cloth and allow the dough to rest in a humid area. I kept mine in the oven with the light on. You could also keep them in sunlight if the weather is too cold.
  9. About 20-30 mins the dough would double up in size. Again lightly knead the dough and add the candied tutti frutti.
  10. Wrap with a damp cloth and allow to rest to leaven for 20 mins more.
  11. Now remove a quarter part of dough and keep aside if you want to make braids for your bread. Else skip this part if you just want to make a loaf. Make small balls from the dough. Shape them into thin logs like these.
  12. Just remember how you tie a plait in your hair. Similar fashion pinch three thin logs on the top and braid then gently. If they break fix with a little dough and start again. Check your pan size and make the braid accordingly.
  13. At this point of time you could grease the pans. Place the leavened bread on the greased pans. If you want to attach the braids then shape the dough into oval or round shape. Gently attach the braids around the bread or decorate them on the top. However you want to decorate your bread do that use your own creativity.
  14. You could make cross or a star anything you could think of. Place some glazed cherries over the braids.
  15. Again allow the dough to rest in a humid place with a covered damp cloth until they are doubled in size. Just brush the bread with milk-butter mixture before baking.
  16. Bake in preheated oven at 200ºC exactly fifteen mins before baking. Bake for 30-35 mins or until the bread sounds hollow and is baked evenly. Again brush with the milk-butter mixture over the bread. Allow to cool dust with icing sugar. Slice and serve your eggless easter bread with butter, cheese or honey. This bread tastes best the next day.
  17. If using fresh yeast or dry active yeast then take about 1.5 tbsp yeast, 2 tbsp sugar and 3 tbsp lukewarm water. The water should be hot enough to dip your finger, it shouldn't be more hot else the yeast would die.
  18. Combine water, yeast and sugar into a mixing bowl. Stir and keep side at a humid place. After 7-8 mins the mixture should appear frothy, if not frothy then change the yeast and start the process again. Use this frothed yeast in the dough and follow the same instructions as stated above.
Notes
1. You could use olive oil instead of butter if intent is to make low fat bread.
2. To make a braided bread is optional.
3. Proofing the dough is important if the dough is not rising it means the yeast is not good. So be careful while adding yeast to your bread.
4. You could make the dough then freeze and use for future use.
5. Adding nuts are optional.
6. It's imperative to use a pre-heated oven before baking bread, cakes or cookies.
You could glaze your bread with honey or caramelized sugar if you wish to.
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Comments

  1. Sangita says

    April 7, 2021 at 11:57 pm

    Hi. Maria, thank you for this awesome recipe . I tried it n the flavour of the loaf was great .the only mistake I did was I used a small size tin to bake .due to which my loaf was a little dense .I have two queries ,can you please help in this .which tin size you took to bake n secondly out of this mixture we make two loaves or one . I’ll try again to make it perfect .thanks once again

    Reply
    • maria says

      April 25, 2021 at 5:09 pm

      Hi Sangita,

      Thanks for your kind words. Any loaf pan you take, ensure you leave 1.5-2 inch space for the bread to rise and bake evenly. Surely tray again and let me know how it was?

      Reply
  2. Priyanka Jain says

    March 2, 2016 at 2:58 pm

    Very easy n nice recipe thank u…?

    Reply
    • maria says

      March 3, 2016 at 11:09 pm

      Welcome and thankyou so much Priyanka 🙂

      Reply

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