Focaccia Bread Art: Flower Garden

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This baking project is great for kids. Provide them with a variety of cut veggies and herbs and let them make the flowers that will adorn the focaccia bread.

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There’s no right or wrong way to decorate your bread so let your imagination and creativity run wild.

Ingredients

active dry yeast

lukewarm water

honey

all-purpose flour

kosher salt

In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the yeast, honey, and lukewarm water. Add in flour and salt and mix with a rubber spatula.

Pour 4 tablespoons of olive oil into a large mixing bowl. Transfer the dough into the large mixing bowl and turn to coat in the olive oil.

Prepare baking sheet by coating it in butter. While the dough is still in the bowl, fold it towards your body while turning bowl with a 1/4 turn. Do this 3 times.

Transfer the dough to the prepared baking sheet and pour any excess oil in the bowl onto the bread dough. Let the dough rise for about 2 hours.

Place the oven rack in the middle of the oven and preheat to 450 degrees. Gently stretch the dough to cover the baking sheet.

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