When Cinzia ask me if I would like to join her, Elra, Lien, Natalia and Rosa to bake a real colomba (easter dove) I said immediately yes. A real colomba because the original is made only with sourdough and no yeast. I was a bit scared because until today all my attempts with sweet sourdough ended as a disaster: Pandoro, Panettone and Brioche. And unfortunately it was the same with the colomba. It didn’t rise at all even the sourdough was quite active. I don’t know why I’m not able to bake this kind of bread. So it comes today – on our colomba revealing day I have nothing to reveal. My colomba landed on the compost. R.I.P. my little colomba.
But wait, Cinzia announced the Happy Baking Easter event.
Everybody is invited to bake a colomba, and the best, you can follow the recipe you like. So I will try it again!
Last but not least check out the blogs of Cinzia, Elra, Lien, Natalia and Rosa to see their colomba beauties.
I am glad you are not giving up. Mine didn’t really turn out as it suppose to. The one with sourdough didn’t rise as high, and the texture was completely wrong. It was not shreddy at all. So yes, I’ll be practicing a lot until I get it right. Good luck with yours. I know Rosa had successfully made hers, including the shreddy texture.
Good luck dear,
elra
REPLY:
At least yours did rise, mine moved about 2 mm even I added some yeast. ;-) I hope next one will be good because I hate to waste food.
I’m so sorry about that… I hope you’ll give it another try!
Cheers,
Rosa
Mein Beileid! Was gibt es denn Gutes zum Beerdigungskaffee?
REPLY:
Da habe ich eigentlich auf dich gezählt. ;-)
oh, Zo, I am so sorry about that!
and more because I insisted to make you follow us…I know it is so sad because I hate to throw away food as well…we will organize better next year…with skype on, web cam on, doing really things together and on line in the same time!!!…see and vitually touch each other doughs!
bacio grandeeeeeeeeeeee!
p.s. thanks for supporting my event! bacio!
I’m so sorry for your colomba ! I hope you will try it again because I want to see your own coloba !
Cheers,
Miette
Oh no !!! Maybe you didn’t wait long enough !!! My colomba took a bit of time to raise ! Well I hope you try again , it would be nice to do it really together !!
REPLY:
I waited more than 20 hours. ;-) But in the meantime I baked a colomba, a yeasted one to be on the safe side. ;-)