Christmas Tree Bread
If you have around 2 hours and 45 minutes to spend in the kitchen, Christmas Tree Bread might be an awesome dairy free, lacto ovo vegetarian, and vegan recipe to try. One serving contains 205 calories, 7g of protein, and 3g of fat. This recipe serves 8 and costs 28 cents per serving. Christmas will be even more special with this recipe. If you have salt, dried rosemary, sugar, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. 754 people were glad they tried this recipe. It is brought to you by Serious Eats. Overall, this recipe earns an awesome spoonacular score of 83%. Similar recipes include Matcha Christmas Tree Bread, Cheesy Christmas Tree Pull Apart Bread, and Christmas Tree Dip.
Servings: 8
Ingredients:
3 cups (13 1/2 ounces) bread flour
1 teaspoon dried rosemary
1 teaspoon dried thyme
2 1/4 teaspoons instant yeast
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon sugar
1 1/4 cups water
Equipment:
stand mixer
bowl
plastic wrap
baking paper
baking sheet
oven
Cooking instruction summary:
Procedures 1 Combine the water, yeast, sugar, and about half of the flour in the bowl of your stand mixer. You don't need to be precise about that half - just eyeball it. Stir to combine, and set aside for 20 minutes. 2 Add the rest of the bread flour along with the salt. Knead with the dough hook until the dough is smooth and elastic. Add the rosemary, thyme, and olive oil, and continue kneading until the herbs and oil are incorporated. Form the dough into a ball and drizzle it with olive oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set aside until the dough has doubled in size, about 40 minutes. 3 Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. When the dough has risen, flour your work surface and turn out the dough. Knead briefly, just to know out the air. Divide the dough into quarters, then divide those quarters into 4 pieces each. You should now have 16 pieces. Divide each of those in half, so you have 32 pieces. 4 Roll each piece into a ball, and arrange the balls on your prepared baking sheet in a tree patten, leaving just a little bit of space between them so they will touch when they rise. Use about 2/3 of the balls for the bottom layer. 5 Make a second layer on top of the first, piling more in the center and leaving the edges at a single layer. If you have some gaps that you want to fill, cut some of the remaining balls in half. This doesn't have to be a perfectly symmetrical tree. 6 If you want a snowy effect, sprinkle some rice flour on top of the tree - or you can also use regular flour. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and set aside until doubled in size, about 30 minutes. 7 Bake at 350 degrees until nicely golden - about 35 minutes. If you won't be ripping the bread apart while it's warm, let it cool on a rack.
Step by step:
1. Combine the water, yeast, sugar, and about half of the flour in the bowl of your stand mixer. You don't need to be precise about that half - just eyeball it. Stir to combine, and set aside for 20 minutes.
2. Add the rest of the bread flour along with the salt. Knead with the dough hook until the dough is smooth and elastic.
3. Add the rosemary, thyme, and olive oil, and continue kneading until the herbs and oil are incorporated. Form the dough into a ball and drizzle it with olive oil. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and set aside until the dough has doubled in size, about 40 minutes.
4. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper. When the dough has risen, flour your work surface and turn out the dough. Knead briefly, just to know out the air. Divide the dough into quarters, then divide those quarters into 4 pieces each. You should now have 16 pieces. Divide each of those in half, so you have 32 pieces.
5. Roll each piece into a ball, and arrange the balls on your prepared baking sheet in a tree patten, leaving just a little bit of space between them so they will touch when they rise. Use about 2/3 of the balls for the bottom layer.
6. Make a second layer on top of the first, piling more in the center and leaving the edges at a single layer. If you have some gaps that you want to fill, cut some of the remaining balls in half. This doesn't have to be a perfectly symmetrical tree.
7. If you want a snowy effect, sprinkle some rice flour on top of the tree - or you can also use regular flour. Cover the dough with plastic wrap and set aside until doubled in size, about 30 minutes.
8. Bake at 350 degrees until nicely golden - about 35 minutes. If you won't be ripping the bread apart while it's warm, let it cool on a rack.
Nutrition Information:
covered percent of daily need
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