Braided Easter Bread with Colored Eggs | Kitchen on the Cliff with Giovanna Bellia LaMarca

This festive and colorful sweet bread is not only delicious, but also makes a gorgeous centerpiece for your holiday spread. Get the whole family involved in making this show-stopping holiday treat-- invite the children to dye the eggs and see their creations atop the fluffy enriched dough. This bread is fun to make, no matter how old you are.
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Dough:
6 cups flour
1/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoons instant yeast
4 eggs
1/4 cup oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups water
Optional: Splash of vanilla
Decoration:
6-8 hard boiled eggs, tinted with food colors
1 Beaten egg for glaze
Colored Sprinkles
Timestamps
00:00:00 Intro
00:01:13 Making the dough
00:03:36 Dying the eggs
00:05:04 Nonna’s Easter Egg Collection
00:06:49 More on pysanky eggs
00:09:02 Shaping the dough
00:13:02 Tasting
Filming and Video Editing by Francesca Sacco
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[@liliana1lfr]

My Nonny made these, too! She and my grandfather's sister would get together and bake and bake and bake. Every countertop, every radiator would be covered with breads and cookies. Thank you for the recipes, the tips, and the memories. 🇮🇹

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

My Pleasure, Liliana, our family memories are our treasures!

[@jq8974]

I'm a Ukrainian Canadian, so we do the Pysanky eggs and I make Paska - the Ukrainian version of your lovely sweetbread, so I loved seeing your special traditions and hearing your egg decorating stories! We love our faith and the beautiful Easter traditions around it. Thank you for sharing your kitchen with all of us. And Happy Easter! 🌿

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you, my Friend, and Happy Easter to you! Our traditions are part of our being and our need to pass them down our wish to be loved and remembered.

[@christinei.6963]

I just happened upon your video, and it made my day. I haven't heard anyone call the Easter bread that since my mom passed 15 years ago. Thank you. I can't wait to try your recipe.

[@Carol-ck2pg]

So beautiful with the colorful Easter eggs; love the sprinkles, too. I'll have to give it a go. It's always a happy moment when I see there's a new video from Giovanna! ❤

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you so much, Carol! Make it and you'll love it.

[@twomeow6257]

Greetings from the Catskills! A sweet person from upstate NY told me all about her mother's cooking channel! What a talented family! Happy Spring!

[@marlenen.6474]

Absolutely beautiful, Giovanna! Thank you. 🥰

[@djouhraatmane9465]

J'adore voir les mamies cuisiner les recettes à l'ancienne.Elles sont les Meilleures.🎉

[@bellebeauty67]

A lovely smile has remained on my face viewing this entire episode😊🎉 JOY❤

[@suzannevega2289]

My Aunt always used food to dye her eggs but she never boiled the eggs, she let them cook inside the bread in the oven. I always enjoy your video's, I hope you and yours had a wonderful Easter💞

[@tonimarie503]

Hello Giovanna, I really enjoy your videos. While watching your Easter bread video, something you said sprang up a wonderful memory from my childhood. You called the little loaf Pupa Cu L’ova. When you said that I remembered that my grandparents used to call me that. I don’t think I would have had that wonderful memory had you not said that. Thank you so much. Now, I will never forget. Thank you for sharing your love of making authentic Italian food.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you so much, Tonimarie; I’m delighted to have brought your Grandmother back through that wonderful memory! ❤️

[@momokaomomo2141]

Hello from Tokyo, Japan! I really enjoyed the video. I'll try it though Japanese don't celebrate Easter. I hope my Italian boyfriend would enjoy this bread tomorrow!🎉 Thank you!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

I hope that you both enjoyed the bread. Celebrate each day of life and good health. We have been to Japan twice and we loved being there! By chance, we were married on July 7th and our Japanese friends celebrated our Wedding Anniversary with Joy!

[@gypsy5445]

I’ve been searching for my grandma’s recipe of this for Easter! Thank you!! So many wonderful memories around this particular recipe!!💕🥰🐣We never went a year without as long as she was alive. Just wonderful!❤

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Now you can also carry on the tradition of our beloved Nonne!

[@papalangiloi]

Buona Pasqua Giovanna, thanks for sharing, I've just made the bread for Easter Sunday here in NZ. It's very moreish and I now need to rest after such a pleasurable eating experience. ❤

[@ezrabenavraham2705]

I absolutely adore you! What memories that come flooding back to me watching you cook!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you, reading your comments unleashes my own precious memories!

[@TuckerSP2011]

My Mom calls it the same name pupa que l'uova like it is a doll. It's wonderful, a special taste at Easter. I also make a sweet cookie version that Mario Cuomo's wife once shared in a newspaper article. You decorate it with green colored sweetened shredded coconut around the egg. Buona Pasqua Giovanna, Howard and family!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

These wonderful traditions handed down in families and shared with friends create memorable moments for all of us! Happy Easter to you and your Dear Ones!

[@electric_girl]

Thank you~*!* So special* of you*!* Happy* Easter*! ,LoVE*, Natalie* 💘😇💫✨🤌💝🌈

[@user-pn5zs3fn9v]

Oh that was really nice; Happy Easter.. 🐣

[@judefrazier4727]

Happy Easter🎉🐇💞

[@rc22259]

Hi Giovanna. Thank you for sharing your wonderful recipes! Your Easter Bread (and colored egg) recipe is very similar to my mom's- a tradition that I carry on each year at Easter time for my family. My mom's recipe includes a couple of tablespoons of Anise seed when mixing the dough giving the final product a nice hint of licorice, which the family loves.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Your Mom’s touch of anise sounds wonderful! I will try it! Thank you.

[@hollish196]

Wonderful video that I had to share! And such a lovely standard poodle. What a beauty!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank You. Our "Granddogs" Pom Pom and his companion Pupcake, a miniature poodle of the same coloring, are our treasures!

[@margaritabetancourt1167]

❤❤❤

[@mariacosta4463]

Buona Pasqua from Ottawa 🙏🇨🇦

[@mamma_zoot]

Oh my goodness! This was so lovely and brought back so many memories! My grandmother (Carmela) would make the Easter breads and pies. She made the bread basket and also a "baby", that was similar to your dolls, but much larger. The dough would also be flavored with anise. The pies she would make would be like calzones - one cheese (mozzarella, ricotta, and herbs), one with crumbled Italian sausage and egg, and one with spinach and ricotta. I always looked forward to Easter, because of all the delicious breads. Thanks for bringing back such lovely memories! You have a new subscriber!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank You so much! As soon as both my husband and I retired from teaching, we made an Easter trip to Sicily to enjoy for the first time since we immigrated to America the bounty of delicious breads, pies, and other traditional Easter specialties. We had made many trips to Italy, before that, but always in the summer.

[@andreasmith6031]

My Nana made these at Easter. I love them and they are such a beautiful memory. I am making your Tiramisu for Easter and the Easter bread. Nice to keep the Sicilian traditions alive. I love your channel. Thank you for all that you do. You have a lovely family.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you so much, Andrea, and Happy Easter!

[@ibisargentinausher1309]

Buongiorno Giovanna,thank you for sharing a wonderful recipe. 🥧❤

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you for watching our Easter Video!

[@shawnmh91]

Such a great looking bread and having the additional ❤ egg to eat with it, is a nice addition! Happy Easter! 🐇🐰🐣 🪺 🥚

[@marirose1000]

Lovely ! We have coloured eggs at Easter in Romania, too. I'm going to bake our traditional brioche bread with the eggs on it, as you showed us. Thank you😊

[@Lovelytraveling]

GOD bless✝️🤍♥️💐Happy Easter ❤

[@scioa]

Cara Nuccia questa non è una ricetta ma un'opera d'arte, un pezzo di addobbo pasquale oltre che una squisita opportunità di assumere calorie pregiate. Grazie e un bacio a tutti voi e tanti auguri di Buona Pasqua

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Carissimo mio Cugino, Sei un poeta come Zio Gino, grazie per le tue belle parole. Buona Pasqua a tutti in Famiglia. Grazie mille, Giovannino! Baci, Nuccia ❤️🌹❤️

[@roulakhouri5216]

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[@najattehawkins21]

🎉🎉

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

❤️👍🏽❤️

[@user-sq1er1bt8l]

Welcome back! So happy to see you both❤❤

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you for your welcome! We both appreciate it.

[@foodogslove2588]

Thank you for sharing all of your wonderful recipes, which look absolutely delicious . You are such an inspiration and a lovely person. 🙏❤️

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you so much my Friend!

[@user-kd9gx8dk9n]

Giovanna big thanks 🎉🎉🎉

[@2935441]

Giovanna, I love to watch you cook!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

It gives me great pleasure to share my cooking!

[@ZombieQueen819]

I love bread 🥖 🎉🎉New Subscriber 🎉🎉

[@jerrycratsenberg989]

I love your presentations. This recipe and video is especially wonderful. Thank you for sharing!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

It's my pleasure!

[@plantpun]

My family is Slovak and we make a similar bread called paska and pysanky every Easter. After a few hours of messing around with hot wax, there are always a few dyed eggs left over. I'll have to try making your braided bread this year! I hope you and your family have a lovely Easter.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

This year I couldn't make Pysanky eggs, but I hope to make it up next year! Happy Easer to you and your Family!

[@user-eu8ub9cm5t]

Thank you Giovanna GRAZIE MOLTO for sharing this although all eggs should be Dyed Red for HIS SACRED BLOOD I am 67 year old Christian soon to be 68 this summer and I never heard of this Easter Bread with eggs/What a blessing Internet/KZbin can be Here in London UK we have lovely cinnamon like cake called Simnel Cake for Easter which I highly recommend Full of Flavour Alas it is only available from Jewish Marks and Spencer

[@slclark209]

I just found your channel. Loved the interview on your birthday. This is more of a question than a comment about the Easter bread (which looks great BTW. Eggs were interesting). Do you make a soup out of bread like a "sopa de ajo" which we do in Spain? Looking forward to more recipes.

[@teresamageros6568]

thank you so much for replying. i hope mine comes out as lovely yours. blessed easter to both of you.

[@harufau2372]

Qué bonitas azucenas rojas! Y que delicioso pan! 😋

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Gracias. ¡Disfrutamos de la Amaryllis roja durante varias semanas! 😋

[@jenniferinthe3094]

I am happy to see videos again! I missed you! I hope all is well 😊

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

All is well, and we also missed temporarily not having been able to share our videos!

[@nancylafferty8362]

Thank you! I make my parent’s recipe! I want to try yours also. Just bought your book!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank You, Thank You, Thank You, Nancy!

[@sanjanewmoonlife]

I love this ,do you use uncooked egg or cooked 🍚, it will not explode in oven .. ❤🎉🎉🎉🎉 You are lovely Lady ..

[@jobond3317]

Thank you for sharing your life experiences and knowledge. I did not know about decorating fresh eggs. My father did teach me to blow eggs

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

The art of decorating Pysanky Eggs is a Ukranian national tresure!

[@tomg8673]

4th Generation Italian from the Napa Valley. Absolutely love your channel! You could be a member of my Families without a doubt Happy Easter to you and your loved one’s ♥️♥️♥️

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Grazie Altrettanto. We are one family! Happy Easter 🐣

[@Robert-xy4gi]

❤

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

🌺💐🍀🌸🌻

[@barbaraweiss3119]

My Italian grandfather, Joe Panaro, used to make this bread every Easter! He also made one for each of his 13 grandchildren! I can’t remember what happens to the raw egg once it is baked…I don’t recall ever eating them! Are they just for decoration or do you eat them? Your video makes this bread recipe seem very approachable!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

It is indeed very approachable! I hard boil my eggs, but either placed on the bread raw of cooked, they are delicious eaten with the bread!

[@tznmrs]

do a Tiramisu!!

[@nanni.5208]

Wonderful 🤩🎉🎊🙋‍♀️💐💝🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you so much! Cheers!

[@chrisbarbarula2083]

What did you sprinkle on the bread can't wait to make it!

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Brush the bread with with beaten egg and top with Italian, colored, sugar sprinkles, available at any market. Enjoy!

[@lpenni8673]

😁😘😁

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank You!

[@teresamageros6568]

i am trying your bread for easter. is there a second rising for this recipe? happy easter to both of you.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

I bake it after shaping it to keep the design beautiful and compact.

[@phronsiekeys]

Were the eggs hardboiled before they were dyed, or are they baked raw? I'm sorry if I missed that.

[@lilliann3705]

I make these too like my mother &I am 80 yrs young and still keep up these traditions - they are not cooked before adding them to the bread. They are cooked in the oven and to me taste much better than hard boiled eggs❤

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

The eggs for the bread were hard boiled, cooled, and colored. The Ukranian Psanky Easter Eggs that I mentioned in the Video, are decorated raw, and eggs eventually dehydrate, and if you shake the egg you will hear what is left of the egg. inside the unbroken shell.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

You are right, but, even if they are hard boiled first, cooking them in the oven still gives that a distinctive taste!

[@DMandtheDogs]

@@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca so you bake hard boiled eggs? Are they still edible? I have never tried to make the Pupa cu l'ova but a woman used to make them for the Saint Joseph Table every year and they were so pretty.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

@@DMandtheDogs Absolutely, Faustina, the eggs are delicious accompanied with the delicious rich bread .....but, for me they have to be at room temperature, and not chilled; that's only me!

[@spanitaliangirl]

Giovanna, can you please identify the specific instant yeast that you use, e.g., a photo, a link? Grazie. 🙏🏻 You are family for me now that mia madre e le mie zie are all gone. So grateful to have you.

[@GiovannaBelliaLaMarca]

Thank you very much. The yeast I use is SAF- Instant Yeast which I buy mail order from King Arthur Flour in Vermont although recently I found it at my neighborhood Italian grocery store. I like it because you mix it with the dry ingredients, you don’t need to proof it, and it’s good for both sweet or savory doughs. It comes in a 16 ounce package.

[@spanitaliangirl]

Thank you. I can’t wait to try it. Alla prossima volta... 😘

[@arminehanjargholi]

It’s not bread may be yours like that . Ours called paska . Sure Polish snd Italian have I saw you make it similar to ours in new year not Easter . Any way taste good ours orange peels and lays of butter but if salty one . My mum use to put more butter on top as I do now . Easter food just plain smoked fish salty as we put in hot boiling water to take out bit more salt and scrambled eeg with chips herbs like dil parsley. Cilantro feugreek. Chives . Iran we do but Some also make like yours in Eastern Europe .

[@joannawhite1441]

I didn’t prefer the texture of this recipe. It came out more like a pizza dough cooked as a bread.