How to Make Simple Individual Easter Breads

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These cute Easter Breads are individual sized and easy to make. They are really festive, slightly sweet and studded with a pretty egg.

I have always been enamored with Easter bread.  There is just something about a braid of bread with a healthy dose of sprinkles and colorful eggs nestled in it.  

On one hand it seems a little strange and really intriguing to have a whole egg baked right into bread.  On the other hand, we love eggs and bread.  

So why not? Plus sprinkles just make everything so much more festive and fun!

I set my mind to it.  This would be the year.  

I was going to make Easter bread!  I decided not to go whole hog traditional and flavor it with anise as most of the Italian breads are.

Instead I opted for a simple slightly sweet bread that is enriched with butter and eggs.  I have to tell you, I was very happy with that decision.  With a quick glaze, it is a lot like having a cinnamon roll without the cinnamon part.

The eggs in the center must be dyed uncooked.  So little dude and I got to work doing that first.  Since the dye was going to come in contact with the bread, we used food coloring and vinegar to dye our eggs.

I actually only had food gel on hand and the purple somehow separated which we thought made for cool looking eggs too!  Once the eggs were nice and colorful, we started the bread dough.

After the dough has risen, punch it down and separate it into six equal sized balls.  Roll each into a long snake, cut in half, twist the two snakes together.  Arrange the rope into a circle and pinch together the ends.

Nestle an egg into the circle and repeat the process.  I think my dough could have used a bit more flour as my braids disappeared, but it turned out perfectly soft and delicious so nobody complained.

Little dude was very anxious to try one.  Of course the sprinkles had him excited. So he took a giant bite.

His eyes lit up.  As soon as he was done chewing he turned around and said “mom, this is the best thing I’ve ever had!”

I am not sure I go quite that far, but mine didn’t last long either.  I took the four remaining loaves to our weekly family dinner along with another dessert.  

I thought for sure the other dessert would go first, but the plate these went on came home clean.

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