How to make Turtle Bread 🍞🐢
June 1, 2024: I made the turtle bread from the Alpha Bakery Children’s Cookbook. It came out so cute!! I haven’t gotten a chance to taste it yet but I hope it is tasty :)
edit: it was tasty !
Alright, let's get right into the recipe:
Ingredients
- 2 ½ to 3 cups of all purpose flour
- 1 package of quick-acting active dry yeast
- 1 tablespoon of sugar
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- ½ cup of water
- ⅓ cup of (oat) milk
- 1 tablespoon of butter
- 1 egg
- 2 raisins (for the eyeballs)
Directions
- Mix 1½ cups of the flour, the yeast, sugar and salt in a large bowl.
- Heat water, milk and margarine to 125° to 130°; stir into yeast mixture.
- Stir in egg. Stir in enough of remaining flour to make the dough easy to handle.
- Sprinkle a surface lightly with flour.
- Turn the dough onto the surface; knead until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes. Cover and let rest 10 minutes.
- Lightly grease a cookie sheet. Shape a 2-inch piece of dough into a ball for head. Shape 4 walnut-size pieces of dough into balls for feet. Shape 1 walnut-size piece of dough into tail.
- Shape remaining dough into a ball for body; place on cookie sheet and flatten slightly.
- Attach head, feet and tail by placing 1 end of each under edge of body to secure.
- Press raisins into head for eyes. Cover and let rise 20 minutes.
- Heat the oven to 400. Make crisscross cuts in body, 1 inch deep, to look like a turtle's shell. Bake until golden brown, 20 to 25 minutes.
- This recipe makes one turtle bread.
Made turtle bread? I’d love to see it ! Email [email protected] a picture.
Or, mention me on Bluesky @Brookie 🐢
this post was originally posted on abcbrookie.com, a notion site that served as my blog before pckt was created. i may go back and post some of these old posts from time to time :)
