The recipe I used listed it's level as "difficult". Mostly it was time consuming. It took 2 days and four rest periods. But, I think it was not any harder than other breads. I think I made a mistake in not covering it better during the overnight rise. The dough was dry and the resulting bread was dry too. Other than the ring splitting and coming apart during the proof, I think the rest of it went ok.
I already had green and purple/lavender sprinkles on hand. We made yellow/gold.
By the way, it wasn't cold, Annalise just found the sweater and wanted to wear it.Guess who found the baby this year!
Since Mardi Gras preceeds Ash Wednesday and Lent, I decided to combine this with this book we checked out from the library.
I am becoming a big fan of Tomie dePaola, who is Catholic. He has so many great books. This one is a retelling of an ancient fable about a boy who becomes a juggler and realizes at the end of his life that all can be done for the glory of God. Annalise likes it a lot and I think she finds it very moving because the man dies at the end. It has inspired Caleb to want to learn to juggle! We also like it because it is set in the Reniassance and March 25th is the Reniassance Faire at PEP and we all have to dress up - and its illustrations provide some reasonable ideas for costumes.
Kings bread looked good! Since you mentioned it, I've seen it other places too.
ReplyDeleteBoth kids have done author studies on Tomie dePaola - it's part of our 1st grade curriculum. They really liked his books, too.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like the kids had fun with the cake! After looking at all the king cakes on Cake Wrecks and reading that it took you 2 days to make, I feel comfortable scratching this off our list of possible future projects!
Most of the 2 days was rising time. It had to rest 4 times and one of them was an 8 hour/overnight rise. It really wasn't extremely hard. (And it made excellent french toast the next day!)
ReplyDeleteI have not checked Cake Wrecks in a while, but I am going to have to check their King Cake Wrecks out!
A great quote from Cake Wrecks:
ReplyDeleteTraditionally speaking, the King Cake is not the most pleasing thing to look at. In fact, if your King Cake is a hideous blob of slime and sprinkles, then, congratulations! You nailed it!
Well, I didn't want to say your cake looked like a toilet seat, but I think that's what it's supposed to look like! :)
ReplyDeleteI made a Christmas backdrop from a Tomie DePaula book one year. It was the story of the poinsettia plant.
ReplyDeleteHonestly because of the way the ring separated and the back poofed up and then split, I thought it looked kind of like a bottom and legs. Not pretty, not pretty! Maybe that is why you are supposed to cover it in unnaturally colored sprinkles!
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