Soft & Fluffy - Hokkaido Milk Bread

With the 1st considerable successful attempt at baking a basic bread loaf using Song-Cho bread machine, I started to search for recipes that produce soft and fluffy bread.

Once again, I turned to my one of my favourite recipes blog: Everybody Eats Well in Flanders
and found this awesome bread recipe!

Recipe adapted from  Everybody Eats Well in Flanders

*I have halved the recipe to test if this recipe works for me.

This bread is baked using my Song-Cho Breadmaker.


Ingredients:

135g bread flour
15g cake flour
2 + 1/2 tbsp skim milk powder
20g fine sugar
1/3 tsp salt
1/2 egg
62.5g fresh milk
37.5g cream

1/2 tsp yeast


How to do:

1. Pour the ingredients into the bread barrel according to the sequence above from bottom up except for yeast.
2. Make a well in the bread flour and put the yeast into the well.
3. Select menu '5. Sweet' on the breadmaker, set color & loaf option & press start.

The original recipe will make 700g loaf but since I halved the recipe, theoretically, it should bake a 350g loaf. Anyway, I select 1.0LB under loaf option.

I guessed I could have just leave the breadmaker to do its job and have a nice little loaf. But my itchy hands just have to play around with the recipe.

So I waited till the breadmaker completed its Rise2 and pause the machine, took out the dough, portioned into 4 equal portion.
I stuffed a piece of hazelnut chocolate into the middle each portion and shaped it round, put it back into the breadmaker, unpause the machine and let it continue with Rise3 & Bake.

I have to say.. This recipe is really good! Baking in breadmaker.. not so good... hahaha..
As expected, baking in the breadmaker developed a rather thick crust.
But the recipe itself produces very soft and fluffy bread. The best part is that it stayed fluffy even till the next day. 

:: Hokkaido Milk Bread Using Song-Cho Breadmaker ::

:: Soft & Fluffy Milk Bread with Hazelnut Chocolate :: 

Also, due to the reduce ingredients, kneading using the breadmaker is not so ideal as the mixing blade tends to drop out so I need to pause the machine and reattached a few times. So I guessed there's a minimum weight criteria for the ingredients in order to use the breadmaker efficiently.

To conclude, I am very happy with the success of this recipe but I will probably bake using the oven the next time.