For the Bread:
- ½ cup All-purpose floursifted twice
- 2 tsp Active dry yeast
- ½ cup Milklukewarm 1%
- ¼ cup Sugar
- 2 Eggsroom temperature , lightly beaten
- 4 tbsp Buttermelted then cooled
- ¾ cup Sour creamroom temperature , do not use light
- Zest from 2-3 Lemon
- 1 tsp Salt
- 4¼ cups All-purpose floursifted twice
- 3 tbsp Vegetable oilor grapeseed oil
For the Eggs:
- 6 Eggs
- 1 cup Waterboiling
- Food coloring
- 1 tbsp Vinegar
For the Toppings:
- Colored sprinkles
- 2 tbsp Milk
Italian Easter Bread
My daughters love this Italian Easter Bread even when it’s not Easter and I think it’s all the colorful sprinkles decorated over the top that makes this bread eye catching and really pretty! I love trying different foods and cuisines from cultures all around the world, especially at family gathering and celebrations like Easter time. I place a dyed, red egg, in between each of the 6 single knots of soft dough bread with hundreds and thousands of sprinkles around.
To make Italian Easter Bread, you will need the following ingredients:
Steps to make Italian Easter Bread
1 | Combine dye water | 1 |
In a small bowl whisk 1 cup of boiling water, a few drops of food coloring and 1 tablespoon of vinegar until combined. | ||
2 | Dye eggs | 20 |
Working one by one, place an egg inside the dye water and whisk a few times. Set aside for about 5 minutes until colored then transfer to a plate lined with a paper towel to dry. Continue with remaining 5 eggs, adding more food coloring as needed. | ||
3 | Activate yeast for dough | 3 |
In a mixing bowl whisk ½ cup of flour with 2 teaspoons of dry yeast and ½ cup of lukewarm milk until combined then set aside, at room temperature, until the yeast has proofed. | ||
4 | Combine wet ingredients | 2 |
Using an electric mixer on setting speed low, slowly add 2 beaten eggs, 4 tablespoons of melted butter, ¾ cup of sour cream, lemon zest, ¼ cup sugar and 1 teaspoon of salt and mix until combined. | ||
5 | Add flour | 2 |
Gradually add the remaining 4¼ cups of sifted flour, ¼ cup at a time until a light and sticky dough forms. | ||
6 | Knead | 20 |
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough, working with a few drops of oil at a time, and working with your hands, knead for about 15-20 minutes until 3 tablespoons of oil are absorbed into the dough and it is soft but not sticky. | ||
7 | Rise | 90 |
Set aside for about 1 hour 30 minutes to rise until doubled in volume. | ||
8 | Roll balls | 1 |
Divide the dough into 12 small balls then roll each ball into 13-15-inch ropes. | ||
9 | Prepare loaves | 5 |
Take 2 ropes and braid them together and then bring the two ends to meet, forming a ring shape. Repeat with 10 remaining ropes. Transfer the dough rings to a baking sheet and place a dyed egg in the center of each. | ||
10 | Second rise | 30 |
Cover with plastic wrap and set aside for about 30 minutes to rise again. | ||
11 | Preheat the oven | 5 |
Preheat the oven to 375 °F. | ||
12 | Add sprinkles | 2 |
Once risen, brush the loaves with 2 tablespoons of milk and add sprinkles all over the top. | ||
13 | Bake | 20 |
Bake in the preheated oven for about 22 minutes until golden. | ||
14 | Serve | |
Cool completely before serving and enjoying! | ||
Recipe Reviews
Creative and colorful exactly the type of dessert I'm looking for on a holiday like easter.
Best textured bread I've ever had, hard on the outside and soft on the inside ;-)
Swapped normal milk for some coconut milk and it actually leaves a hint of coconut taste too would recommend trying it even if youre not vegan.
Love the bright colors and texture of this easter bread, much more funky than the sunny side up dessert in my opinion and goes well with the holiday.
Adorable little bread! I give it a 5 for appearance and 5 for taste.
Italian dishes are always so unique glad that I can look under that genre there's just so much to choose from and this was freaking amazing so it's going to be hard to top.
My bread didn't turn out fluffy not exactly sure what I did wrong though?
Another brilliant recipe by my all time favorite Lilly, why am I not surprised? Keep making these type of foods love ya!
Replaced normal sugar with brown turned out fine thankfully.
At this point Im just gonna have to acept the fact that im going to be fat due to the tasty dishes lol.
This recipe is actually quite difficult to perfect I think I'll stick with lemon drizzle slices or even the carrot cupcakes sadly..
Drizzled some chocolate and caramel over the top..perfection.
Lemon made it a bit zesty but not too much thankfully will add less next time though.
First time and I nailed it thanks to the easy steps really appreciate it!!
My kids LOVED making this with me even though they added too much sprinkles lol.
Not too sweet but it's great because you can add more things to it though I usually just stick to melted butter.
This is such a cool concept I'm actually ultra impressed with how it turned out.
A tbsp of vinegar was too much I could taste it....
Does anyone even eat the egg or is it just decoration?..curious is all
So I'm not sure why there is an egg therefore I went with some m&ms in the middle just put them there once the bread is done cooking and vallah!
Amazing! Thanks for sharing recipe!
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