Braided Easter bread vegan / eggless sweet yeast bread
Heavenly fluffy and soft – this sweet yeast bread practically melts in your mouth. But not only delicious, it is also vegan and thus comes without egg or other animal products. The sweet yeast bread is perfect for Easter as well as any other time of the year for dessert or breakfast. In addition, you can make it according to the recipe simply with a few ingredients.
Servings 12
Ingredients
for the pre-dough
- 280 ml plant milk (lukewarm)
- 150 g flour
- 20 g sugar
- 21 g fresh yeast
for the dough
- pre-dough
- 100 g vegan margarine (room-warm)
- 80 g sugar
- approx. 350 g flour
- zest of 1 organic lemon
- 8 g vanilla sugar
- 1/2 tsp salt
to coat and sprinkle
- 1 tbsp plant milk (room-warm)
- 1 pinch of turmeric powder
- 15 g white sesame seeds
Instructions
Preparation of the pre-dough
- Dissolve fresh yeast and sugar in lukewarm plant milk.
- Add flour, mix and let the pre-dough rise in a warm place for 15 minutes.
Preparation of the dough
- Add sugar, lemon zest, vanilla and salt to the pre-dough and mix briefly.
- Add flour in batches and knead into a soft dough.
- Knead vegan margarine into the dough.
- Knead the dough for 7 - 8 minutes and let it rise covered in a warm place for 1 hour.
- Divide the dough into 3 equal pieces, roll each piece into a long strand and braid the strands into a plait, pressing their ends tightly together on each side.
- Place the sweet yeast bread on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper and let it rise in a warm place for 30 minutes.
- Mix plant milk with turmeric powder, carefully coat the sweet yeast bread with it and sprinkle it with sesame seeds.
- Bake the vegan braided Easter bread in a preheated oven at 180 °C top and bottom heat for about 30 minutes.
Notes
- Instead of fresh yeast you can use dry yeast. You will need 7 g of it for the recipe.
- You can use soy, lupine, oat or almond milk as plant milk.
- You can simply leave out the lemon zest.
- The amount of flour may vary. Therefore, add the flour in portions until the yeast dough has the right consistency. It should be very soft, but not mushy, and not too firm or dry.
- Braid the plait as tightly as possible, pressing the ends together firmly on both sides of the plait. Otherwise, the vegan braided Easter bread could come apart as it rises or as it bakes.
- Do not bake the vegan braided Easter bread longer than necessary so that it tastes moist and not dry. Use a wooden skewer to check if it is done baking.
- Note the detailed tips and tricks for making the vegan eggless sweet yeast bread at the top of the post.