20240808 Walmart toaster oven bake - sesame milk bread with CLAS
Hi friends!
Last time, I shared how I bake lean bread in my beloved Walmart toaster oven. Today, I will show you how I use it to bake enriched bread. The loaves you see are sesame milk bread, made with 60% milk, 8% butter, and 8% sugar. I bake them "naked" — without the graniteware roaster — in a black tin and a light-colored tin, respectively. Each dough weighs around 500g for the 9x4x4 tin.
Here’s my process:
1. Place the TRAY in the lowest slot.
2. Put the tins directly on the TRAY.
3. Seal the inside of the oven glass with a large piece of heavy-duty aluminum foil.
Baking settings:
- Cold oven, no preheat
- Toast setting
- 360°F for 10 minutes, check
- 360°F for 5 minutes, check
- Cover the top of the loaves with foil
- 360°F for 10 minutes, check
- 360°F for 10 minutes
After baking, I blast a floor fan at the oven and turn on the range hood. This cools down the oven and the surrounding areas within minutes!
I've got an idea to expand the use of this little powerhouse. Once I’ve perfected the plan, I’ll share it with you!
That’s it!
see it with better lighting
P.S. 2nd version - swapping some of the flour for sesame powder and baking it in a mini pan—just for fun!
Here's the breakdown:
82% AP flour
3% WW flour from CLAS
15% toasted black sesame powder
4.5% H₂O from WW CLAS
8% sugar
60% milk
8% butter
6% H₂O
0.7% dry yeast
15% toasted black sesame seeds
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Comments
Thanks Yippee!
I was planning another bake today. I had a mistake with my first one but now see how to correct it.
The sides and bottom of my bake did not burn at all -so that is fixed.
Your bread looks delicious and I will bring my black sesame next time, here to my parents' house where my WM oven resides!
Can I use a regular enriched clas recipe and the method of mixing too?
Thanks again and so happy to see your bakes!!
In my recent posts, I've focused primarily on the baking part and haven't gone into much detail about dough development and fermentation. This is because the baking process itself is independent of how the dough is prepared. So, feel free to use your enriched dough recipe and follow your preferred mixing method. You can refer to my posts on the baking process and make any necessary adjustments if you're baking a similar type of bread in the Walmart toaster oven. I hope you find them helpful!
Yippee
P.S.
If you are making sesame bread, definitely use toasted sesame seeds IN the dough —they really boost the bread's aroma. You can also grind some toasted sesame into powder and swap out some of the flour with it.