Nutella Christmas Tree Bread
I was invited to do a cooking class for Christmas Cooking Show at a famous mall in town. I always visit Pinterest for ideals, this is where I come across this recipe. I modify the ingredients but I just use the ideal to make the bread to a X'mas tree. I hope you enjoy and Merry X'mas
NUTELLA
CHRISTMAS TREE BREAD
NUTELLA
CHRISTMAS TREE BREAD
Ingredients
(A)
450g
bread flour + 20g milk powder
60
g caster sugar
11
g instant active yeast
A
pinch of salt
(B)
2
egg yolks (keep the egg white for glazing the bread)
(C)
1
cup warm milk or more
(D)
30
g room temperature unsalted butter
Nutella
for spreading
Garnishing
White
sesame seed or desiccated coconut
Baking
paper, plastic wrapper, 1 tbsp. sunflower oil, ruler, sharp knife
Method: Prepare KitchenAid mixer
attached with dough hook @ speed 2
1. Put ingredients (A) into mixer bowl. Give a little mix to the ingredients.
2. Add the warm milk to the dry ingredients (if it is warm will help activate the yeast) together with the egg yolks.
3. Start kneading the ingredients together. When it start to form a sticky dough, add (D) butter and continue kneading till it’s shinning and elastic about 20 to 25 minutes using speed 2. Take the dough out from the bowl and form into a ball.
4. Brush the bowl with sunflower oil in it and put the dough back and seal with a plastic wrap.
5. Keep the dough in a warm place and let its rise for 1 hour.
6. Remove the dough from the bowl, punch down and cut it into 4 even pieces.
7. Sprinkle some flour on your countertop and take one of the 4 dough's. Start teasing it and you will want to make a slightly square bottom, more like a triangle shape. It should start looking like a Christmas tree. Stretch it until it is fairly thin, the size of tree depends on you.
8. Place the dough on a piece of baking paper.
9. Take one cup of Nutella and spread it out across the surface of the bread, but not all the way down, leave a little bit of surface free and there you will make the trunk of the bread (add Nutella there). Don’t spread Nutella too thick, it will be a mess!
10. Repeat the process of dough shaping and Nutella spreading for all of your remaining dough. Place each dough's over the other when finished, and then spread the Nutella, but not on the last dough!
11. After your dough's are ready and in place, cut out a straight line with the edges, and then you will cut out the trunk area.
12. Make two imaginary lines starting from the trunk area, going up to the top, then start cutting stripes horizontally (they should be about one inch thick) on both sides.
13. Start twisting the sides as you can see in the pictures.
14. When you finished doing your twists, get the bread with the baking paper on a baking pan and then cover it with a damp cloth for half an hour, 40 minutes.
15. Preheat oven for 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit) and mix the remaining egg whites with a little warm milk.
16. Brush it over the tree and put it into the oven for about 15 minute until golden brown.
17. Take the bread out and brush some sugar with water over it so it will have a nice glow.
18. Sprinkle the edges with some white sesame seeds and your tree is ready to serve… merry Christmas…
1. Put ingredients (A) into mixer bowl. Give a little mix to the ingredients.
2. Add the warm milk to the dry ingredients (if it is warm will help activate the yeast) together with the egg yolks.
3. Start kneading the ingredients together. When it start to form a sticky dough, add (D) butter and continue kneading till it’s shinning and elastic about 20 to 25 minutes using speed 2. Take the dough out from the bowl and form into a ball.
4. Brush the bowl with sunflower oil in it and put the dough back and seal with a plastic wrap.
5. Keep the dough in a warm place and let its rise for 1 hour.
6. Remove the dough from the bowl, punch down and cut it into 4 even pieces.
7. Sprinkle some flour on your countertop and take one of the 4 dough's. Start teasing it and you will want to make a slightly square bottom, more like a triangle shape. It should start looking like a Christmas tree. Stretch it until it is fairly thin, the size of tree depends on you.
8. Place the dough on a piece of baking paper.
9. Take one cup of Nutella and spread it out across the surface of the bread, but not all the way down, leave a little bit of surface free and there you will make the trunk of the bread (add Nutella there). Don’t spread Nutella too thick, it will be a mess!
10. Repeat the process of dough shaping and Nutella spreading for all of your remaining dough. Place each dough's over the other when finished, and then spread the Nutella, but not on the last dough!
11. After your dough's are ready and in place, cut out a straight line with the edges, and then you will cut out the trunk area.
12. Make two imaginary lines starting from the trunk area, going up to the top, then start cutting stripes horizontally (they should be about one inch thick) on both sides.
13. Start twisting the sides as you can see in the pictures.
14. When you finished doing your twists, get the bread with the baking paper on a baking pan and then cover it with a damp cloth for half an hour, 40 minutes.
15. Preheat oven for 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees Fahrenheit) and mix the remaining egg whites with a little warm milk.
16. Brush it over the tree and put it into the oven for about 15 minute until golden brown.
17. Take the bread out and brush some sugar with water over it so it will have a nice glow.
18. Sprinkle the edges with some white sesame seeds and your tree is ready to serve… merry Christmas…
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