Ingredients for Cartoon Bread (Grey Skin Part): High-gluten flour: 260g, Milk: 120g, Milk powder: 10g, Egg: 1, Granulated sugar: 50g, Salt: 3g, Yeast: 3g, Butter: 30g, Charcoal powder: 1g. (White Skin Part, also known as Ok-skin or Snow White Skin): High-gluten flour: 60g, Cake flour: 40g, Water: 60g, Baking powder: 1g, Butter: 10g.
Method of Making Cartoon Bread: Step 1: Pour all ingredients for the grey skin part, except butter, into the Hauswirt M5 Silent Kitchen Aid, mix on second gear until a dough forms, then refrigerate for more than 30 minutes (not exceeding 12 hours) to cool the dough and reduce kneading time, especially suitable for summer.
Step 2: After half an hour, take out the dough, add softened butter, and mix on second gear until the butter is fully incorporated into the gluten.
Step 3: Switch to fourth gear and mix at high speed until the dough reaches the fully expanded stage.
Step 4: Round the dough, cover with plastic wrap, and ferment at room temperature for 1 hour.
Step 5: While the dough is fermenting, mix the ingredients for the white skin part, form a dough, and refrigerate for half an hour.
Step 6: When the grey dough has doubled in size, take it out.
Step 7: Gently press to release the air and relax, divide into 9 equal parts, 8 for the body, and 1 further divided into 16 small dough pieces for the ears; I didn’t take a group photo for this step!
Step 8: Take out the white dough from the refrigerator, relax for ten minutes without fermentation; divide into 10 equal parts, 8 for rolling round, flatten, cover the belly, 1/2 for rolling into long strips and cutting into small eyes, 1.5 parts add matcha powder, knead into green dough for leaves.
Step 9: Combine the small parts together.
Step 10: After completing all, cover with plastic wrap, ferment at room temperature for 40-60 minutes in summer, until the dough is about 1.5 times larger.
Step 11: Preheat the oven, place the baking tray in the middle layer, bake at 170 degrees for 20 minutes! Add foil at 10 minutes.
Step 12: After the bread cools, draw Totoro’s facial features with dark chocolate!
Step 13: Out come the lively little Totoros!
Step 14: Actually, you don’t need to knead the dough to the gluten stage for this sweet bread, but ever since I got the M5 Kitchen Aid, it’s very easy to knead and reach the gluten stage! It saves time and effort, is easy to shape, and the bread tastes great!
Cooking Tips for Cartoon Bread: There are tricks to making delicious dishes, and I have little tricks for each of my dishes. You can search for ‘bread’ to directly view my recipes!
