Sweet Potato Bread

Recipe for my sweet potato bread. This was adapted from honeybeesweet88.blogspot.com but I had to tweak it a lot as it is only a guide.

The first step is to get the sponge ready. I have not actually started baking with Bob and Chapie so it is still commercial yeast.

Sponge:

380gm bread flour

180ml water

40ml milk

2 1/4 teaspoon instant dried yeast

1 teaspoon salt

Knead all ingredients until a nice smooth dough is achieved. I let this sit on the counter for an hour and then in the fridge overnight.

Main Dough:

160gm bread flour

1 teaspoon salt

65gm caster sugar

135ml water

45gm butter

270 mashed sweet potato

Method:

1. Knead all ingredients and then add the pre ferment dough piece by piece. This is where I had issue. I had my kicthenaid kneading for close to an hour and the mixture was way too wet.

Next time I will not add all water at a go as the sweet potato is also very hydrated. After calculating 40% of hydration from my sweet potatoes added with all the liquid the hydration was more than 80% which is way way wet for a dough

2. I added more dough, continued kneading until it passes the window pane test

This is how sticky it look even after kneading for an hour. I had to throw it on the bench , added around 3/4 cup flour and tried my best to make it into a workable dough, by then I believe the ratio must have went askew 

This is the last dough left for the first rise, it was very very soft

3. After an hour, it doubled. Punch it down and I started shaping the dough. I divided the dough into 2 batch, one for a bread loaf and the other to wrap my chicken pizza buns.

4. The dough was still sticky and way too soft. I was getting worried this stage that the bread might be too soft

It still manage to rise the 2nd time

The chicken buns were nice and soft.

The after product

True enough it was too soft, almost like a chiffon cake. It was so soft I can't even cut it properly.

The taste of sweet potato is very nice in this loaf, it was soft but more of a cake than a sandwich bread. 

The next time, the water needs to be reduced, then it will be perfect.