Pan De Muertos Or All Souls Bread

Total Time: 40 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon anise seed
• 2 1/2 teaspoons dry yeast
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 cup butter
• 4 eggs
• 3 -4 1/2 cups flour

Recipe

• 1 mix all dry ingredients together except the 3 - 4 1/2 cups of flour.
• 2 in a small pan, heat the milk, the water, and the butter. add the liquid mixture to the dry mixture.
• 3 beat well.
• 4 mix in the eggs and 1 1/2 cups of flour. beat well.
• 5 put in the rest of the flour, little by little.
• 6 knead the mixture on a floured board for 9 - 10 minutes.
• 7 put the dough in a greased bowl and allow it to rise until it has doubled in size (about an hour and a half at sea level).
• 8 punch the dough down and reshape it with some "bone" shapes on top to decorate it.
• 9 let it rise another hour.
• 10 bake at 350 degrees f (175 degrees c) for about 40 minutes.
• 11 after baking, sprinkle it with confectioner's sugar and colored sugar.
• 12 note the number of servings is hard to caculate because of the ability to mold into different shapes for each serving. i am taking a sheer guess and making it eight.