This is what I do during a blizzard!


To ward off the "blues" during our BLIZZARD OF 2011 (18 inches of snow... the entire interstate was closed from St. Louis to KC), I made this cool bread! I call it rainbow bread. I made some for a bake sale they were having at church. The last time I sold it at a farmer's market it was the first thing to go. Even my high schooler loved taking PB&J on this!

I used the recipe for my sandwich bread and dyed each batch a different color (I mixed gel dye into the yeast/water portion of my recipe) and then proceeded from there. When the dough was ready (I did mine in the bread machine throughout the day), I divided each batch of dough into fourths, rolled out each fourth and stacked three colors together (with varying colors on the outside). Rolled like for a cinnamon roll and plopped it in a sprayed loaf pan. It rose for about an hour and then I baked it for 30 minutes as in the recipe. They turned out so cute and if you have to make a great gift for a young person "on the cheap" or something to sell at a bake sale - this is it!

P.S. If you were making rolls for any of party (I'm thinking orange/purple-Halloween; red/white/blue for the 4th of July; red/green-Christmas), this would be great for even dollar rolls. What a way to liven up a sandwich!
I love to find ways to do it all myself, whether its canning, sewing, making bars of soap, or starting my own seeds in the dead of winter. My kids think I've lost it, but I just like doing it At Home My Way!

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  1. AnonymousMarch 2, 2013 at 11:42 AM

    It would be awesome if you had time to make a tutorial for this for us non-experienced bakers. I love this idea!

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  2. GinaMarch 4, 2013 at 12:57 PM

    This sounds like a good reason to make this bread (a tutorial). The next time I have a rainy day-baking day (hoping the big snows are over for the year), I promise to do just that. I believe I made three separate batches of bread (so I made three rainbow loaves), adding the coloring to the liquid ingredients. I divided each batch of dough into equal thirds, flattened a disc of dough, layered the doughs and rolled like a fat log as for cinnamon rolls. Placed the rolled fat lot in the loaf pan, and let it rise. (If this helps until I can do a step-by-step). I think I layered each loaf with a different range of color so that each loaf was different. I love to give these to my friends who have kids. They get a kick out of making sandwiches with rainbow bread.) I think you could also use orange/purple for Halloween, red/green for Christmas, etc.

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