Ham and cheese bread

One of the recipes that I've been very eager to try making.

This uses Mode 11 on the panasonic bread maker, which essentially lets me take out the dough midcycle, to manipulate as I see fit. Recipe itself is pretty easy to follow, no surprise ingredients here.

Bread flour         200g
Butter                  35g
Sugar                   17g
Milk powder        6g
Salt                      3.8g
Egg                     25g (approximately half of a medium sized egg)   
Water                  100ml
Dry yeast             3.5g

Once again I used less water than called for, about 60-70ml of iced water instead of 100ml. And I always check the consistency of the dough while it is being mixed in the machine. This way I can add more water if necessary (or add a bit of flour if dough is too wet).

 

55 minutes later...

 



Cute looking thing!
The dough is then sectioned into 12, into which goes the ham and cheese. The recipe calls for 12 x 15g for the filling. Luckily for me this worked out to be about three slices of cheddar cheese and three slices of ham in total (10x10cm slices).

 

Once the ham and cheese are wrapped in the dough, they are just placed back into the pan (with the mixing blade removed), then back into the machine for rising and baking.

 

2 hours and 15 minutes later...

 

Haha, is it me or does this look good?