Quick Christmas tree bread
Quick Christmas tree bread recipe in the christmas category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2/3 cup milk
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1 large egg, yolk and white separated
- 3/4 cup, 4 ounces, diced dried fruit mix (or make your own, mixing raisins, currants, snipped dried apricots, apples, prunes)
- 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice or 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 3/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 8 tablespoons, 1 stick, cold, unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
- Granulated sugar or homemade vanilla pearl
Recipe method:
- Check to see that one rack is in bottom third of oven and heat oven to 425 degrees F.
- Measure milk in a 2 cup measure, add sugar and egg yolk, stir to mix well.
- Stir in dried fruit. Let stand until ready to use.
- Put flour, baking powder, spice, and salt into a large bowl, stir to mix well.
- Add butter and cut in with pastry blender or rub in with fingers, until mixture looks like fine granules.
- Stir milk mixture and pour over flour mixture.
- Stir with a fork until a soft dough forms.
- Turn out dough onto a lightly floured surface and give 10 kneads.
- If very sticky, let stand 3 or 4 minutes or add a little more flour.
- Cut off about 1/4 of the dough. Put remaining dough on an ungreased cookie sheet at least 16 inches long.
- Using both rolling pin and fingers, pat and roll dough into a flat triangle about 12 inches long and 9 inches wide across the bottom.
- With scissors, make about ten diagonal cuts down each long side of the triangle, cutting to within about 1 inch of the center.
- Shape a small piece of reserved dough into a trunk at bottom of tree and remaining dough into a pot.
- Dough may now be covered with plastic wrap and refrigerated for a couple of hours or frozen for up to 2 weeks.
- Bake tree 10 minutes.
- Beat egg white with a fork until broken up.
- Brush over hot bread, sprinkle with sugar.
- Bake 5 to 8 minutes longer, until light brown.
- With two spatulas, carefully transfer tree to a wire rack.
- If possible, cool at least 2 hours before serving.
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