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
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:
- Purple Lavender Lemonade
- Blue Butterfly Blueberry Banana Muffins
- Vegan Vitamin Gummy Bears
- Blue Vanilla Moon Milk
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.
I Would Love To Hear From You
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PrintSweet and Beautiful Vegan Swirl Bread
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.
- Prep Time: 2 hours 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 30 minutes
- Total Time: 2 hours 45 minutes
- Yield: 2 loaves 1x
- Category: Bread
- Method: Baking
- Diet: Vegan
Ingredients
- 5 cups All-Purpose Flour
- 1 1/2 cups +2 tbsp Oat Milk
- 1/3 cup Condensed Coconut Milk
- 1/3 cup Canola Oil
- 4 tbsp Vegan Sugar
- 1 1/2 tbsp Yeast
- 1/2 tsp Salt
Filling
- 2 tsp flavor powder (matcha, taro, blue butterfly pea tea)
- 2 tsp water
- 1/2 cup dried fruit (cranberry, cherry, currants)
Instructions
- 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.
- Meanwhile preheat oven to 350F. Ensure the rack is in the middle position.
- Brush the loaf with oat milk. Bake at 350F for 30 minutes.
Notes
Recipe inspired by: Nmmeiyee
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1 slice
- Calories: 141
- Sugar: 2.2 g
- Sodium: 27.5 mg
- Fat: 5.4 g
- Carbohydrates: 20.2g
- Fiber: 0.9g
- Protein: 2.9 g
- Cholesterol: 0
Great information.
Lucky me I found your blog by chance (stumbleupon).
I have bookmarked it
for later!
Author
I am so happy you found me Helena! Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for taking the time to comment ๐๐ป๐
CAN this dough be used for poppy seed rolls?
Author
Hi Karen,
This dough can absolutely be used for a poppy roll. However, make the roll the way you typically would not according to my directions. My directions makes a loaf of sweet bread not a roll. I would love to hear how the roll turns out and how you made it.
Thanks so much for you question.
In gratitude,
Susan
Could you sub for anyother powders, I have hibiscus?
I also have moringa and spirulina that may be sub for matcha?
Author
Yes! You may sub any powders/flavors you wish. Let me know what you choose and how it turns out.
Susan๐๐ฑ