Beautify your brunch table with these Vegan Swirl Breads. A sweet bread with dried berries and enticing twists of natural colours from green matcha, blue butterfly pea tea and purple taro.

This bread is fluffy and melt in your mouth tender. It is delightful eaten plain, with vegan butter or toasted with some preserves or my Chia Seed Jam. My daughter Carrington loves when I make her a PB & J using one blue swirl slice and one purple slice. If you have leftover or stale swirl bread turn into fun French Toast or bread pudding.

What You Need To Make Sweet and Beautiful Vegan Swirl Bread

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For The Bread:

Unbleached All-Purpose Flour
Oat Milk (other plant milk will work. I find oat milk browns the best)
Condensed Coconut Milk
Canola Oil (or other light coloured oil)
Organic Sugar
Active Dry Yeast
Himalayan Salt or Sea Salt

Flavor Powders:

Dried Fruit:

My Flavor Combos

I paired the following combinations of flavors. Feel free to get creative with your breads. Let me know what flavor combinations you choose. Take a photo and tag me @susancooksvegan.com and I will feature you on my Instagram stories.

Blue Butterfly Pea Tea with Dried Tart Cherries
Green Matcha with Dried Cranberries
Purple Taro with Dried Currants

Green Matcha Powder, Purple Taro Powder, Blue Butterfly Pea Tea Powder

Blue-Butterfly-Pea-Flower-Tea — Blue Butterfly Flower

What Is Blue Butterfly Pea Powder?

Butterfly Pea Flower is a plant common to most South East Asian countries. It has many health benefits such as:

1. It’s filled with anti-inflammatory compounds: That means it can help your body fight back against the damage caused by free radicals, like inflammation and signs of aging in the skin. It’s particularly rich in anthocyanin, a type of antioxidant also found in blueberries and red wine that is well-known for fighting inflammation and boosting heart health.

2. It could help with cognitive function: Butterfly pea flower is a natural nootropic, which means that it can potentially help improve cognitive function.

3. It’s good for your skin: Butterfly pea flower makes sense as a refreshing spa beverage because it has bonafide beauty benefits thanks to all of those antioxidants.

4. It changes color (in a good way): The most intriguing aspect of butterfly pea flower as an ingredient is that it’s subject to change color based on PH balance. Adding something like lemon juice will purple-ify the drink, while playing with other ingredients can zap it red.

Thankfully you don’t have to travel all the way to Thailand to get this stuff! Click here for dried Butterfly Pea Flowers for tea or Butterfly Pea Powder to make this Vegan Swirl Berry Bread Recipe.

Here are more of my recipes that use Blue Butterfly Pea Tea:

What is Taro Powder?

Taro powder is made from taro root. It is a beautiful lavender purple color and tastes a bit like nuts, a bit like vanilla, a bit like sweet potatoes, and has a floral taste to it. It has a very pleasant flavor, perfect for ice cream, bubble tea, and this Vegan Swirl Berry Bread.

Health Benefits Of Taro

You can also count on Taro to provide you with tons of nutrients. It is high in potassium, fibre, and Vitamin E and B. This means that Taro can help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and help you manage your weight. In addition, the Vitamin E acts like antioxidants that protects your cells.

How To Make This Vegan Swirl Bread

Warm oat (plant milk) to 40-43C (105-110F) which is warm but not hot or steaming. If you don’t own a food thermometer, warm the liquid to a lukewarm temperature, aiming low. A slightly cooler liquid will take longer to activate the yeast, but go too hot and the yeast will die and never activate at all.
Add sugar and stir until dissolved. Sprinkle yeast on top. Stir the yeast in gently after 30 to 90 seconds. Let sit for 10 minutes. Yeast should start to bubble and froth on top. If it has not the yeast could be old or the milk too hot.
To a bowl or stand mixer sift in flour. Add the remaining ingredients and the milk mixture.
Blend on low-medium speed with the hook attachment or mix for 10 minutes until the dough comes together. Continue to knead for 5-10 minutes until the dough is smooth.
Remove half of the dough from the mixer or bowl and set aside. Mix together flavor powder with water until a paste forms. Add the paste to half the dough and continue kneading until until combined.
Knead plain dough and colored dough into balls. Cover, place in a warm place and let them proof for 1 hour until each ball doubles in size.
Transfer balls to a clean floured surface. Roll out each dough until they form thin rectangles. Place the colored dough on top of the white dough.
Sprinkle over dried fruit. Roll up the dough along the wide/long side of the rectangle.
Place the roll in a bread pan. Place in warm place and let it rise for 45 minutes – 1 hour or until doubled in size.
Bake at 350F for 30 minutes.

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