Easter Bread Ring

Name: Easter Bread Ring
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 1 Bread Ring
Ingredients: 5 -6 cups robin hood best for bread flour; 1 cup granulated sugar; 5 1/2 teaspoons active dry yeast; 1 teaspoon orange zest, grated; 1 teaspoon salt; 2 teaspoons orange juice; 2 teaspoons vanilla extract; 1 cup Carnation Evaporated Milk; 3/4 cup Crisco shortening; 3 eggs, beaten; 6 hard-boiled eggs; 1 egg; 1 tablespoon Carnation Evaporated Milk; liquid food coloring; 1 cup icing sugar; 1 -2 tablespoon orange juice

Submitted by Chef mariajane

"Here is a decorative and delicious bread for your dinner table that looks like a basket filled with painted Easter eggs!! It's easy to make: roll dough into 24-inch ropes then twist them together and join the ends to form a ring. Place hard boiled eggs into the "basket" before you let the dough rise. The finishing touch: carefully paint the eggs after the bread has been baked."

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Ready In:: 35mins
Ingredients:: 16
Yields:: 1 Bread Ring

ingredients

BREAD
5 -6 cups robin hood best for bread flour
1 cup granulated sugar
5 ¹⁄₂ teaspoons active dry yeast
1 teaspoon orange zest, grated
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons orange juice
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup Carnation Evaporated Milk
³⁄₄ cup Crisco shortening
3 eggs, beaten
6 hard-boiled eggs
EGG WASH
1 egg
1 tablespoon Carnation Evaporated Milk
GARNISH
liquid food coloring
ORANGE GLAZE
1 cup icing sugar
1 -2 tablespoon orange juice

directions

BREAD:.
In a large bowl, combine 3 cups flour with the sugar, yeast, orange zest, and salt. Mix until well blended.
In a saucepan, heat the milk over medium high heat until just boiling. Remove from the heat; add the shortening and stir until melted. Stir in the orange juice and vanilla. Cool to 120°F Pour the milk mixture and the beaten eggs over the flour mixture.
Mix until a soft and sticky dough forms. Slowly stir in enough of the remaining flour to make a soft dough. Knead for 8-10 minutes. Place in a lightly greased bowl, cover with plstic wrap and place in a warm draft free spot and let rise 1 1/2 to 2 hours. Punch down dough, cover with plastic and refrigerate overnight.
Grease or line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Remove the dough from the refrigerator; punch it down. Divide dough in half. On a floured surface, roll each piece into a rope, about 24-inches long. Twist the ropes together; place the dough on prepared baking sheet. joining the ends together to form a ring shape.
Push the hard boiled eggs, on their sides, between the spaces in the twisted rope around ring. Cover bread with a piece of lightly greased plastic wrap. Let rise until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 -2 hours.
Heat oven to 350°F Place the bread in the oven and bake for 5 minutes. Bat egg with 1 tablespoons milk. Brush bread with egg wash; return to oven and bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden brown. Cool on wire rack.
GARNISH:.
Place a few drops of liquid food coloring in a small dish. Using a cotton swab or small paint brush, carefully color each dyed egg. Let dry fully before drizzling on Orange Glaze.
ORANGE GLAZE:.
In a small bowl, combine glaze ingredients: stir until smooth. Drizzle over cooled bread.

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Chef mariajane

I am a 56 year old Gramma that, for the first time in my life, has purchase myself a computer, and I didn't know what i was missing!! I have a husband tha I adore, and 4 grandchildren that of course surpass all others - lol - I am disabled, and am an at home person, so I have a lot of time on my hands, to play with my recipes, and I am enjoying every bit of it - My husband will eat anything that I cook, so I have carte blanche as far as that goes, so I have a great time trying out new recipes. Paula Deen has published some of my favorite cookbooks, her recipes are easy and quick to do. Her sweets are fantastics, especially her pound cakes, Yummm I guess the dish that I am famous for is my Christmas ham - my family all comes home for Christmas, and if i don't have my ham they are dissapointed, and my grandson wants the pistachio squares!!! so I guess that is the dishes that I'm famous for.

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