📋 Paska Bread Recipe (Bread Machine)

Paska bread in a round white casserole dish on red patterned surface

5 from 4 votes

📋 Paska Bread Recipe (Bread Machine)

This easy Bread Machine Paska bread, a traditional Ukrainian Easter Bread, is made in your bread machine, then decorated with simple decorations and baked for a short time.

Course Dessert, Side Dish, Snack

Cuisine Ukrainian

Keyword bread, bread machine, paska, Ukrainian

Prep Time 2 35

Cook Time 25

Total Time 3

Servings servings

Calories 246kcal

Author Terri Gilson

Ingredients

1 egg
1 cup water, approximately
2 tablespoon milk powder
3 ½ tablespoon white sugar
1 tablespoon vegetable oil
2 tablespoon butter melted
1 teaspoon salt
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon breadmaker/breadmachine yeast regular

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Instructions

Break egg into a 2 cup measuring cup and add enough water to make 1 ½ cups. Beat well and place in bread machine. Add milk powder, sugar, melted butter, oil, salt, flour and yeast.
Set bread machine to dough cycle and press start.
When finished, remove dough from the machine. Divide dough by setting aside enough dough to create the decorations to be placed on top (* Note: I set aside about ⅙ of the dough, but it will be more or less depending on the decorations you make)
Shape the rest of the dough into a round loaf and place in a greased (with vegetable shortening), round shallow pan. Depending on the size you use, you may need to use more than one pan.
Decorations: decorate the loaves with the dough previously set aside.The central ornament on pasta is usually a cross. Roll the strips of dough approximately ¼- ½ inch in diameter. Here are some ideas:
Set the loaves in a warm place and let the dough rise for 45 minutes to 1 hour.
Carefully watch the ornaments while rising so that it does not get out of shape. The shape can be corrected by gently inserting a wooden toothpick or cake tester, along the side of the ornamentation that has risen too much.
Before baking brush the top of the Paska with a beaten egg diluted with 1 tablespoon of water (which I forgot to do in the photo) * It's not absolutely necessary, but it's just not as shiny.
Bake at 350 degrees F/175 degrees C for 25-35 minutes or until golden brown. * If ornaments are browning too quickly, cover very loosely with tinfoil or parchment paper.
Cool in pans for approximately ten minutes before gently removing. Cool on a wire cooling rack.

Notes

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