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I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)

INTRODUCTION

I said before that my Christmas 2014 series has came to an end 2 weeks ago… After seeing Facebook members preparing Christmas bakes, I cannot help but to lay my hand on making this Santa Bread…

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)

I decided to bake this cute bread also because I have plenty of free times since my kids was on holiday. I have more time to prepare bakes that need full concentration and more laborious recipes..

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)

Hmmm, I am not going to eat the bread… Hold on.. Not the bread is not edible, it is because I want to sun dry it and show it to my kids when they are back from Holidays after Christmas.. This is not a recipe sharing but a shaping sharing. It will definitely be a centrepiece on your Christmas table .. Again, the bread is edible if you are using an edible recipes.

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)


WHAT IS REQUIRED

  • About 350 grams of bread dough (Please refer to this post: Basic Bread Dough Recipe )
  • Some red colouring gel.
  • 1 egg yolk for egg glazing (mix one tablespoon of water with one egg yolk, sift before application)
  • 2 currants or black raisins

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)


STEPS OF PREPARATION

  • For edible bread dough please refer Basic Bread Dough Recipe . The shaping shall be done after the first proofing of double in size.

  • For non edible bread dough, mixed 250 grams of plain flour, 1 teaspoon of yeast and 120 grams of lukewarm water. Knead until it form a pliable dough. Let it rest for 10 minutes before shaping.

  • Pre-heat the oven to 180 degree Celsius.

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)

  • Divide the dough into 4 portions. Portion 1 for face, portion 2 for beard, portion 3 for hat and portion 4 for all the other smaller items such as nose, hat collar, moustache,  etc.. Additional left over dough will be used for the shaping of moustache.

  • Take one dough, shape round, and roll it thin in the shape of a face.

  • Take the second portion, roll it like a semi circle, use a knife or scissor to cut into 1 cm broad strips resembling the beard. Do not cut too near the straight edges and stop the cutting at about 1cm from the edge. Slightly twist it to make curly beard. Attach the beard portion to the chin of the face.

  • Take the 3rd portion, leave about 20%, use the remaining 80% of the dough to make it into triangular shape. Attached to the head. Use the remaining 20% of the 3rd portion to make a collar for the hat. Slightly fold the top of the hat towards the hat collar.

  • For the fourth portion, pinch a small dough, shape round and attached to the tip of the hat. Pinch another slightly bigger dough, shape round and make the nose. Pinch another 2 small dough, roll like shape of leaves to make the moustaches. For all the remaining dough, if any, make it into thin strips, slightly twisted and attached to the beard portion.

  • Use a small scissors to cut two small cavities for the eyes. Put 2 dark currants or raisins as eyes.

  • Use a brush to brush some some red colouring gel on the hat.. Dilute the gel with a bit of water and brush on the nose and cheeks resembling rosy cheeks.

  • Egg wash the bread thoroughly before baking in the pre-heated oven of 180  degree Celsius for 15-20 minutes depending on the thickness of the bread. If it brown too soon, off the the top heat of the oven..

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)


CONCLUSION

It is fun and a self achievement to prepare this bread for me to share with readers. I do hope readers can try preparing this too..

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)

Hope you like the post today. Cheers and have a nice day.

I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)


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I Failed To Do Proper Make Up For My Santa–Santa Bread (圣诞老人面包)

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