Panini di Pasqua (Italian Easter Bread rolls)

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Hello and Happy Easter to everybody!

New year new version of my Easter bread: Easter rolls with coloured eggs!
The sun is shining and it's time to dress our tables with garden colours. Just to give a funny touch to my Easter table this time I shaped two different breads: a flower and a kind of bunny..... the dough is always the same (see recipe here), then just shaped it differently ;)

Makes about 12 bread rolls
Ingredients:
500 gr Flour (55 type or another strong bread flour mix)
160ml water
40ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil
2 Wipped Eggs
1 teaspoon dried yeast
1 Tbs Sugar
1 Tbs Salt
1 Wipped Egg (for glazing)
2 Tbs Sesame Seeds (for decoration)
2 Tbs Poppy seeds or other(for decoration)

Method :
Place the ingredients in the bread machine (dough program) or in a food processor, or Kitchenaid, mix, let it rise for 2 hours. After 2 hours, place on a worktop, cut in 12 pieces and shape. For the flowers you can use the shaping method of the sesam bread rolls (see here) then you place a coloured egg in the middle. The Easter bunny bread is very easy, shape a long sausage of dough then place the egg in the middle and cross the 2 parts few times. Shape and make it rise for one hour, then brush with the wipped egg, sprinkle sesam or poppy seeds, bake for 40 minutes at 180°C (350°F).

In Italy we eat the Easter bread in the morning for our traditional Easter breakfas, La colazione di Pasqua, together with a 1000 of other delicious stuffs, like for example the Torta Pasqualina, you will find the recipe in my next post. The leftovers are used for the traditional Easter Monday picnic, "la gita fuori porta" as we call it in Rome. Enjoy!

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