New Vacation Baking Ideas! Christmas Star Staff Of Life & Tardily Homemade Gifts

Hello, friends. It is proficient to locomote dorsum hither alongside novel ideas for you! I had intended to brand all of these projects final month... but, hither nosotros are the 1st of Dec : ) It was oh therefore overnice to locomote dorsum inward the kitchen today baking too creating after a super busy calendar month alongside the store. I promise these recipes too ideas notice you lot alongside plenty of fourth dimension to brand about beautiful too yummy homemade gifts for your friends, neighbors, teachers, co-workers too family.

Now, onto my latest obsession...

Christmas Star Bread

Oh my goodness! I cause got been itching to brand the for months. I came across it on pinterest from Taste of Home and but had to know how to brand it. Isn't it but beautiful? I am completely stunned past times it. Turns out - it is the simplest affair inward the world. Not kidding. As in, I'm hoping to exercise it equally a projection alongside Emma's score soon, therefore simple. It is but circles of dough, layered alongside filling (I used cinnamon, but raspberry jam or Nutella are also great), therefore cutting too twisted. OMG I am therefore excited virtually this! The step-by-step details are below.

I also seat together about to a greater extent than super elementary ideas for slowly Homemade Hostess Gifts. Aren't these lovely? I used a novel production added to the store today - Horizontal Print Tea Towels. As most of you lot know, this was my outset fourth dimension designing too ordering paw block printed linens. Well, I've learned a lot! One of the "mistakes" was when one-half of the tea towels showed upwardly alongside the pattern going horizontal instead of vertical. Not a large deal, but different. However, similar all non bad mistakes, they truly brand non bad wraps for gifts. I but love how they add together to these gifts, too therefore tin locomote used past times the recipient.

Both Options are available, traditional vertical, $8 too horizontal, $6... since they were a error : )

More details for making these are at the terminate of the post.

Now, dorsum to the Christmas Star Bread!

Christmas Star Bread

The master copy recipe tin locomote works life here, Taste Of Home.

makes 2 - 8" stars

1 packaged active dry out yeast
1/4 loving cup warm H2O (110 degrees)
3/4 loving cup warm milk
1 large egg
1/4 loving cup butter, softened
1/4 loving cup granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
iii 1/2 to four cups of flour
...
iii tablespoons of butter, melted
1/4 loving cup sugar
1/4 loving cup dark-brown sugar
2 tablespoons of cinnamon
...
powdered sugar

Dissolve yeast inward the warm water. In about other bowl, mix together milk egg, butter, sugar, too salt. Add yeast too H2O mix, therefore add together flour.

Kneed inward the mixer (or past times hand) for 6-8 minutes until smoothen dough forms. Place inward a greased bowl, covered alongside damp warm towel too allow ascent inward a warm location until doubled. About 1 hour.

It starts alongside a sweetness breadstuff dough recipe. It is real slowly to stir together, kneeds inward the kitchen aid, therefore allow ascent for an hour. (The total recipe is below, afterwards inward the post)

This is the dough after rising an hour.

Punch dough downwardly too plough out onto floured surface.

I divided the dough into 2 portions, seat 1 one-half inward the refrigerator to purpose for about other batch, therefore cutting the sec one-half into four sections. Was that also confusing? Basically, this recipe makes plenty for 2 of Stars. I seat 1/2 away to brand 1 afterwards alongside Emma, too am using the other 1/2 to brand 1 here.

The four sections demand to locomote rolled out into circles virtually 7-8 inches inward diameter. I planned to seat mine inward the 9" Square Cookie Box, therefore I made certain it would jibe inward there.

Start past times placing the outset circular on a Parchment lined Baking Sheet.

Each layer gets brushed alongside melted butter, therefore sprinkled alongside Cinnamon too Sugar.

Sorry for the blurry pic.

This is the pastry brush that comes inward the Baker's Gift Tin. I've never had a circular pastry brush, but I truly liked it.

I used a measurement loving cup to brand an impression of a circle inward the center, therefore guide my cuts.

Make 12 slits inward the dough all the means around.

Twist each department once, turning 2 pieces together, therefore they indicate inward to each other.

See how turning 2 strips into each other, they create the star?

Repeat over again too pinch the points together.

So pretty!

Sprinkle alongside powdered sugar.

Look at all of those yummy layers!

This is the Large Cookie Box, lined alongside parchment paper.

I mean... so, therefore cute.

I wrapped mine alongside Copper Ribbon (sorry, no longer available), a Red Laurel Wreath Tag too a sprig of cedar.

Products Pictured :

-Large Cookie Boxes, v for $8
-Parchment Paper

-Red Laurel Wreath Tags

-Leaf Tea Towel (I included this alongside my gift, bundled underneath the box)

-Ribbon

-Brown LePens

This is super elementary too you lot don't cause got to truly brand anything - but isn't it charming?

I used got 2 baguettes (these are from target!!!) too had a jolt of my Dad's Blackberry Jam.

To wrap, I used on the of the novel Horizontal Tea Towels, Cream Ribbon, Wheat Laurel Wreath Tags (recently restocked), too a sprig of cedar from our tree outside.

This is an consider that I made for Emma's instructor for Thanksgiving. Here, I've made about other version alongside a to a greater extent than Christmasy look. It contains Pumpkin Bread too Honey Butter. You could totally purchase the breadstuff to brand life easier.

Products Used :

Horizontal Tea Towel (Slate Wreath)
Large Baking Basket
Parchment Paper
Medium Kraft Loaf Pan
Ribbon & Tags (Burnt Caramel Tags)