Swedish Coffee Bread
17 years ago I met a group of fabulous gals online. Last month we decided to bake together once a month. Kneading Bakers emerged out of this thought. Every month we plan to bake the same dish. Our very first venture is Swedish Coffee Bread. I had a lot of fun shaping this bread. I had never used a kitchen scissors on dough before. If I were to make this again I would probably go deeper with the cuts to have a very pronounced end result. But I am happy with this bread. I learnt a lot. The dough was very sticky and my palm and fingers hurt kneading it. But the resultant bread as so soft it was a pleasure to munch on. The dough is not very sweet, just the way I like it but the bread is super soft. This will be my stand by sweet bread dough recipe for the further. For the dough 1/4 cup butter, softened 1/4 cup sugar 1 large egg 1/2 tsp. cardamom powdered 1/2 tsp. salt 3/4 cup milk, lukewarm 1/4 cup water, warm 1/2 oz. Fleischmann instant yeast (2 packets) 2 1/2 cup