Golden Santa Christmas Bread Recipe

Christmas 2010 is around the corner and you must be busy buying gifts for your loved ones and obviously planning for this holiday season.Personally, I love Christmas for one particular reason – cakes, cookies and sweets. So I decided to make a colorful Santa Bread to celebrate this Christmas. Tender and golden, the Golden Santa Bread is also entirely edible. But it's so adorable, you'll want to display it a while first!

Below are the step by step directions to make yummy and delighful Golden Santa Bread Recipe.

86% would make again

16-18 Servings

Prep: 30 min. + rising Bake: 25 min. + cooling

Ingredients

4 to 4-1/2 cups bread flour

1/2 cup sugar

2 packages (1/4 ounce each) active dry yeast

1-1/2 teaspoons salt

1/2 cup milk

1/4 cup water

1/4 cup butter, cubed

2 eggs

2 raisins

2 egg yolks

2 to 3 drops red food coloring

Shaping Santa Step-by-Step

On a lightly floured surface, shape the larger portion of bread dough into an elongated triangle with rounded corners for Santa's head and hat.

Shape and flatten half of the smaller portion of dough into a beard. Using a scissors or pizza cutter, cut the beard into strips to within 1 in. of the top of the beard.

Carefully pick up the cut beard piece with both hands and position the beard on the bottom of Santa's face.

If desired, twist the cut strips in the beard and slightly curl up the ends of the strips to shape the beard.

Add red food coloring to one beaten egg yolk and carefully brush the tinted red yolk over the hat, nose and cheeks.

Cover loosely with foil. Bake at 350° for 15 minutes. Uncover; bake 10-12 minutes longer or until golden brown. Cool on a wire rack. Yield: 1 loaf.

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