Butterfly Bread

Here is how to make any kind of bread into a butterfly. It looks hard, but it's easy, and it will help turn a snack into a celebration. You can make your butterfly any size you like, but two or three loaves worth of dough makes one about as big as a cookie sheet can take. Pick a favorite recipe or buy some ready-made dough. Make the dough any way you like, but if you want to make it easy for yourself, try this method: Start off with just the liquid, sugar, yeast, and enough flour to seem like pancake batter.
Add the extras in an hour or two (or even the next day). All that resting time allows gluten from the flour to go into solution which is going to make it much more elastic and easier to knead and shape! The extra ingredients would include all any that are not favorites of your youthful yeast: salt, spices, and oil or butter. Adding them later makes the yeast more joyful and productive starting out. Don???t worry about measuring the flour. Just stop adding more when the dough is not getting sticky any more, and it???s easy to shape. The only ratio that is important to respect is the ratio of salt to water. Everything else is flexible. Experiment! See what you like!

Step 1 Stir

Stir as long as you can and then knead in as much flour as the dough seems to require for shaping. As you knead in more and more flour, keep a motion of lift, fold, push, turn, lift, fold, push, turn, being careful not to let your hands get through into the sticky middle of the dough. Anywhere the dough feels sticky, just sprinkle on some more flour and rub your sticky fingers in more flour. It will all just roll off.

Comments

[craftykitty]

That is the cutest breakfast bread ever!!! Thank you!