On our honeymoon we ate at the Napa Rose in Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel and had a great meal, but one of the highlights was the Star Anise Dark Bread they served from the La Brea Bakery.\u00a0 Evidently it’s made only for the Napa Rose, so since we couldn’t buy it, I had to make it!<\/p>\n
It’s a dark, whole wheat bread, flavored with molasses and star anise.<\/p>\n
Ingredients (makes 2 loaves)<\/strong><\/p>\n 2 cups of all-purpose unbleached white flour Recipe:<\/strong><\/p>\n Make sure the water is around 100 degrees, no more than 120 or you risk killing the yeast.\u00a0 Stir the yeast into the water and let it activate for 5 minutes or longer.\u00a0 Put all the dry ingredients into the bowl of your heavy duty stand mixer fitted with the dough hook and mix on low speed to combine the ingredients.\u00a0 Stop the mixer and add the liquid ingredients including the yeast.\u00a0 Mix on low speed for 5-7 minutes.\u00a0 The dough should be a slightly sticky ball.<\/p>\n Roll the dough into a ball and place into a lightly greased bowl and cover.\u00a0 Place the bowl in a warm area and let the dough rise to double it’s volume.\u00a0 This may take an hour or two depending on the temperature and freshness of the yeast.\u00a0 Remove the dough and punch it down.\u00a0 Cut into two equal pieces and form two loaves.\u00a0 Place the loaves on a lightly greased\u00a0sheet pan, cover loosely and\u00a0allow the dough to rise again.\u00a0\u00a0 Once the loaves have risen again to about double, bake in a\u00a0350 degree oven for 25 minutes.\u00a0 \u00a0Remove and cool.\u00a0 Slice, eat and enjoy!<\/p>\n Notes:\u00a0 Vital wheat gluten is also known as do-pep and you can\u00a0find it the cheapest in the bulk foods section of better markets\u00a0or health food stores.\u00a0 Bob’s Red Mill also has it in packages in the baking aisle of most markets.\u00a0 Caramel coloring might be a bit harder to find\u00a0– I get mine at Smart and Final, but try a restaurant or baking supply.\u00a0 You can omit it if you want, but the bread will be light brown instead of dark brown.\u00a0 Star anise powder can be had least expensively at an Asian grocery (or try an Indian grocery).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On our honeymoon we ate at the Napa Rose in Disneyland’s Grand Californian Hotel and had a great meal, but one of the highlights was the Star Anise Dark Bread they served from the La Brea Bakery.\u00a0 Evidently it’s made only for the Napa Rose, so since we couldn’t buy it, I had to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[155,161,158,159,156,157,160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions\/123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markiscooking.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.5 cups of whole wheat flour
\n1\/2 cup of vital wheat gluten (see notes)
\n2 tsp instant yeast
\n1.5 cups warm water
\n3 tbs vegetable oil
\n1\/3 cup dark molasses
\n1 tbs ground star anise powder\u00a0\u00a0(see notes)
\n3 tbs sugar
\n2 tsp sea salt
\n1 tbs caramel coloring\u00a0\u00a0(see notes)<\/p>\n