Homeemade Recipe for Santa Claus Bread

Step into December, feeling Christmas is almost here. When I was young, the most anticipated part of Christmas was waiting for Santa Claus to deliver gifts; after having kids, I became Santa myself, secretly placing gifts under their bed and telling them that Santa would come at night to deliver presents.

　　Ingredients Main ingredients:High-gluten flour 250g, water 105g, condensed milk 40g, Egg 1 piece, fine sugar 25g, salt 2g, Milk powder 8g, Butter 20g, fast-acting dry yeast 3g, Mixed cranberries dry, Blueberries dry, powdered sugar Steps

1. Add water and condensed milk to the bread bucket.

Bread bucket. 2. Add egg liquid, diagonally add sugar and salt.

3. Add milk powder, flour, and butter. Place yeast on top of the flour and put the bread bucket into the Kenwood bread machine.

4. Select knead for 10 minutes, then rest for 10 minutes before kneading for another 13 minutes.

5. After kneaded dough is ready, select fermentation for 40 minutes until the dough has risen to 1.5 times its size.

6. Take out the fermented dough and knead it into two types of sizes: five pieces at 45g and twenty-eight grams each, round them up, cover with cling film and let rest for 15 minutes.

7. Roll the larger piece thin, forming a teardrop shape.

8. Roll the smaller pieces to form shapes as shown in the diagram.

9. Cut these into long strips using scissors and extend them to make beard parts.

10. Place the beard part at one-fourth of the teardrop's tip, twist it ly, and arrange accordingly.

11. Fold the tip of the teardrop inward, take a small piece of dough to form into a long strip and place it on top, the hat shape is now visible.

12. Take another small ball of dough to make into a sphere for the hat peak.

Then craft tiny pieces for the nose and. Afterwards, put them in the Kenwood K30Aoven,select fermentation mode, place a bowl with hot water inside to increase humidity, ferment for 40 minutes. 13. After fermentation is complete, decorate the hat part with chopped cranberries and use blueberry dry fruits as eyes.

14. Place in a preheated oven on the lower shelf at upper heat 165°C and lower heat 170°C for 15 minutes.

15. After baking, dust sugar powder on the beard part.

Tips

1 Adjust water according to the flour's absorbency; make sure the dough is not too soft after kneading.

2 Different models of bread machines and ovens have varying power settings, so refer to these times as a guide.

Each model of toaster and bread machine has a different power rating; the time provided is for reference only.