Bread pr0n

[magid]

A couple of weeks ago I went to a bachelor/ette party. It was, not surprisingly, adult in theme, and contributions were encouraged. I'd just gotten the ginger spread, so my first thought was some kind of bread with a swirl of chocolate and ginger, sweet and spicy. That morphed into making two kinds of dough, chai and chocolate, filled with the opposite filling, and twined together. And then that transmogrified into using two colors of dough (still chai and chocolate) for something a bit more obviously to the theme.

To wit, a lovely bread woman, rather earth goddess-y due to running out of room on the baking sheet for proportional legs, and lack of other proportions (or perhaps, more... traditionally idealized proportions than usual today :-).

One view:

Another view:

Head shot:

She's not perfect (not that I'm throwing stones (to boldly mix metaphors that should not be mixed)), but as as first free-form bread sculpture, she's (in)decent. (And now deceased, er, eaten.)

Many thanks to Coorr for taking the photos and Library_sexy for getting them to me.

Comments

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

That's awesome :) (And sounds like it was tasty, too.)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I didn't have any at the event, but I had some of the leftover dough in more usual roll configurations. The chocolate was rather boring, not really chocolatey enough, but the chai was intense (I used chai tea instead of water, plus more of the appropriate dried spices in the dough).

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention your bread, because in the end, I only got one bite! By the time I was ready to eat some more, it was gone. Much sadness.

I want more!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Dang. I know the final owner of the bread had some left a couple of days later, too.

More bread will definitely happen. Even more flavored bread. Not sure when I'll be inspired to interesting shapes again, though.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Ah, then either it'd been put away or the owner had already left. I was a bit occupied for much of the night. I would still very much like to make bread with you sometime.

[tapuz.livejournal.com]

WOW. Even more incredible than I expected. Way cool!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you! She was fun to make. (And somehow made me think how cool it would be to have stick-figure bread people baked in different yoga poses (ideally ones that are mostly in one plane, like tree, triangle, and warrior variations).)

[breedingimperf.livejournal.com]

ooh - a tree pose would totally knock the Eldest's socks off.

We went to the physical therapist recently, and she asked him to balance - and he did the tree! Funny kid.

and yummy looking bread. Wonder if we could do chai vegan gluten free bread?

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin* Eldest is wonderful.

And thanks.

I have a ton of flour left, so I'm starting to contemplate some intensive breadmaking (and giving, though I assume he'd eat it outside your house...), so tree pose bread might happen before Pesach.

I suspect you can make chai vegan gluten-free bread (mine's already vegan, at least :-). Just substitute the tea for whatever water you use, and possibly add some ginger, cinnamon, white pepper, etc., as well. (Though I'd prefer the bite of black pepper, I'd rather not have the flecks of black in bread.)

[breedingimperf.livejournal.com]

ooh, that sounds good. I think I'll make a batch for the seuda tomorrow (tonight?). And yes, he is, isn't he?

Showing the bread woman to the man and the grandmaternal one. The Man says 'wow.' I suspect the grandmaternal will comment on inverted nipples.

[magid.livejournal.com]

I look forward to hearing how it comes out. (And yes :-)

Glad the Man liked it. As for the grandmaternal... inverted nipples? In what way? (They stuck out...)

um, no

[breedingimperf.livejournal.com]

just musing. I'm sure they're lovely, yeasty nipples.

Can we change the subject now, before this gets odd(er)?

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

Nice!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[(Anonymous)]

That is fantastic! Wow.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you muchly.

[rethought.livejournal.com]

That is some awesome bread.

With the chai bread, did you just use chai instead of water?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I used chai tea (made from chai tea bags, not the liquid concentrate stuff) instead of the water, and added spices to the dough as well (ginger, cinnamon, etc). It was pretty powerful stuff (much better than the chocolate, which was unfortunately more color than taste. Next time, more chocolate intensity.).

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

mmm, and so cute!

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*

[cutieperson]

not what i expected when i clicked the link, but awesome :)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Just out of curiosity, what did you expect?

[alandd.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I hadn't quite expected this either.... I was thinking more in terms of 'an excess of breads' or 'Ode to a buttered roll' rather than an intriguing visual-edible experience. ;-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*

Making a lot of bread isn't really worth writing about, while I'm not one to write much poetry...

[cellio]

Nice (ahem) food porn!

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*
Thank you!

Brilliant!

[powerfrau.livejournal.com]

I love it...being someone who just got a 1.5 pound dark chocolate Venus of Willendorf for her birthday! My sweetie has tried the chocolate in the bread dough thing and it requires much chocolate--but don't all good things?!

Re: Brilliant!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ooh, what a lovely birthday gift!

I've made chocolate bread before, and it had lots of cocoa powder; I just didn't remember how much, and couldn't put my hands on the right cookbook. (Plus I didn't want to need a lot of sugar to balance it, since that would shorten the rise time too much.)

And yes, all good things require much good chocolate :-)