coconut bread-----------Emily Pressley

Coconut Bread
3 sticks butter or margarine, softened

2 cups sugar

1 cup brown sugar

6 eggs, room temperature

2 tsp. coconut extract

½ tsp. almond extract

3 cups flour, sifted

½ tsp baking powder

1 cup coconut milk
Preheat oven to 325 degrees
Grease and flour 2 loaf pans or a bundt pan
Cream butter, sugar, and brown sugar
Beat in eggs 1 at a time, mix well
Add coconut and almond extract
Stir in separate bowl flour and baking powder
Add flour to dough alternately with coconut milk
Pour batter into pan filling no more than ¾ full
Bake in middle rack of oven for 60-70 minutes, until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. (check after 45 minutes)
Let cool for 10 minutes, then remove from pan and finish cooling on wire rack

When I make this, I don’t actually worry about the eggs being room temperature. At the Relief Society dinner I put icing on the top to make it prettier, but the bread tastes great without as well. To make the icing, just use your favorite cinnamon roll icing recipe, but instead of vanilla extract, add ½ tsp. almond extract. Put the icing on after the bread has cooled.

Bread Machine Rolls- Sheia Korth

I use this recipe for dinner rolls, hamburger buns, cinnamon rolls, calzones, scones, donuts, etc. ."Y" roll created by Byran-who else? :)

Put ingredients into bread machine in this order:

1 cup warm water

2 TBS margarine (soften or cut up if hard)

1 egg

3 ¼ cups BREAD flour

¼ cup sugar

1 tsp. salt

Make a volcano in the dry ingredients and add

2 3/4 tsp. instant yeast

Set machine on dough cycle (1:30 on my machine). When dough finishes it should round above the top of your bread machine pan an inch or so-if it doesn't, let it rise until it does.

Roll dough out on floured surface about ½ inch thick, and cut circles with a circle biscuit cutter or drinking glass (Do not roll all the way to the edges-uniform thickness). Fold opposite sides of circle to overlap in center of circle and pinch through dough in the middle to secure the roll shape and create the "dimple" on the top side. Place on greased sheet with dimple side up and overlapped dough underneath. Cover with a damp cloth or loose Pam-sprayed-Seran-wrap and let rise until *doubled. REMOVE COVER!

Bake at 375 for10-13 min. Rub tops with butter while still hot.

Yeild: 15-18 dinner rolls

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For hamburger buns, cut dough with circle cutter and let rise on greased cookie sheet without folding and pinching. Can use large tuna can to cut larger circles.

*For quicker rising, place a pan of water on the bottom rack of oven and pre-heat oven to lowest temp (150-170). Turn oven off and place covered rolls in oven for 10-15 minutes. Remove rolls (leave water) and pre-heat oven to 375. Bake rolls with water in oven.

**Mrs. Rhodes Style- make dough, form rolls then cover and flash-freeze dough on a cookie sheet before rising. Put rolls in a ziplock bag when frozen. Place frozen rolls on cookie sheet, cover, let rise, and bake as directed above.