Canape’s are kind of appetizer that uses specialty shaped slices of bread (like star-shaped slices) as a base with things like meats or spreads on top. Canape bread is usually baked in a molded tube, so you wind up with a long tube of the specialty shape that you slice.
Ingredients
- 4 cups Bread flour
- 8 oz Milk – warm
- 0.5 cups Water – warm (or more as needed)
- 2 TBL Butter
- 2.25 tsp dry Yeast – 1 package (in general)
- 1.25 tsp Kosher salt
- 1 tsp Sugar
Process
- Mise en Place: Measure and prepare your ingredients prior to starting.
- Pitch Yeast
- Warm milk and add sugar and butter.
- Sprinkle yeast on top and let sit for 10 mins.
- Stir salt in flour in stand mixer bowl (speed 1).
- Add fermented milk and stir for 4 mins. Add water is dough if not smooth and moist.
- Knead dough at speed 4 for 4 mins.
- Transfer dough to greased bowl and flip.
- Cover bowl with film and let rise 1 hr, until dough doubles.
- Preheat oven to 400 F or 375 fan.
- Divide dough into logs (rolls) 3 inches shorter than the Canape tubes.
- Cap tubes and bake 1 hr at 400F.
- Cool tubes completely before attempting to remove bread.
- Slice into 1/4″ disk to make your Canapes.
