Best Camembert Caraway Spread On Pumpernickel Toasts Recipes

PUMPERNICKEL BREAD

Steps:

• Brush a large bowl with butter; set aside. Combine 1/4 cup warm water with sugar; sprinkle yeast over top. Set aside. In a small saucepan, heat espresso, chocolate, molasses, and 1 1/2 cups water over medium. Cook, stirring often, just until chocolate is melted, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and let cool until warm but not hot (below 110 degrees).
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a dough hook attachment, combine both flours, caraway, and salt. Add the chocolate mixture then yeast mixture. Mix by hand, using the hook, to combine. Turn mixer on medium and mix until dough comes together in a smooth, springy ball around the hook, 12 to 15 minutes. Remove a small piece of dough and stretch it. If the dough holds together in a thin "windowpane" without breaking, the gluten is sufficiently developed. Add butter, 1 tablespoon at a time, until incorporated, about 4 minutes. Turn out onto a well-floured surface and knead a few times to form into a ball. The dough will be slightly sticky; don't be tempted to add more flour. Transfer to buttered bowl, turning once to coat, and cover loosely with buttered plastic. Let sit at warm room temperature until doubled in size, about 1 1/2 hours.
• When dough has doubled, turn out onto a work surface. Pat dough out into a rectangle, roughly 10 by 12 inches with short side facing you. Fold bottom edge two-thirds of the way up the rectangle, and top edge down to cover. Rotate dough 90 degrees and repeat the fold. (This is called a business-letter turn.) Return to buttered bowl and top with buttered plastic. Let sit at warm room temperature until doubled in size again, about 1 hour. Remove from bowl, gently deflate, and work into a round boule about 6 inches in diameter. Place a clean dish towel in a medium bowl and generously dust with flour. Place boule, seam-side up, in bowl. Loosely fold floured towel ends over dough to cover. Let sit at warm room temperature until doubled, 30 to 45 minutes.
• Meanwhile, preheat oven to 450 degrees and place a 9- or 9 1/2-inch enameled cast-iron pot in oven with the lid to preheat. When dough is ready, carefully remove the lid, pull back corners of towel, and flip bowl upside down to transfer bread to the heated pot, seam-side down. Quickly slash an "X" in the top of the bread with a serrated knife and using an oven mitt, cover with lid. Return pot to oven and bake 20 minutes. Remove lid and continue to bake until bread feels hollow when tapped and internal temperature registers 205 degrees, 20 to 30 minutes more. Immediately turn bread out of pot onto a cooling rack. Let cool at least 2 hours before slicing.

EASY TOAST TRIO

Steps:

• For the toast: Toast the slices of pumpernickel, sourdough and marble rye in the toaster. Butter each with 1 tablespoon of the softened butter.
• For the Mediterranean toast: Spread the hummus onto the toasted pumpernickel bread. Top with the olives and tomato. Sprinkle over the feta and garnish with the oregano.
• For the cherry ricotta toast: Spread the sourdough with the ricotta cheese. Dab the cherry preserves on top and, using a spoon, swirl the preserves into the ricotta. Top with the cherries and almonds.
• For the smoked salmon toast: Spread the cream cheese onto the toasted rye bread. Fold the salmon and lay it on top of the cream cheese. Top with the capers, lemon zest and fresh dill.
• Halve the toasts and place onto a platter. Enjoy.

CAMEMBERT CARAWAY SPREAD ON PUMPERNICKEL TOASTS

Steps:

• Make spread:
• Purée Camembert, cream cheese, sour cream, shallot, and caraway seeds in a food processor. Stir in pepper and chives.
• Make toasts:
• Preheat oven to 425°F.
• Brush 1 side of bread with butter and season with salt and pepper. Toast bread, buttered sides up, on a baking sheet in middle of oven until crisp, about 7 minutes. Transfer toasts to a rack to cool.