Pull-Apart Homemade Bread Wreath
with Garlic Sage Butter
So, this recipe is not super kid-easy but do not be deterred! There are fun parts to do with your kids that will teach them some good kitchen skills, yet still yield an elegant dish to serve to your adult friends!
I originally saw this idea on Half Baked Harvest, a great comfort-food type blog that I love, gorgeous pictures! The original author is this darling young woman, Tieghan Gerard, who creates really fun recipes, although it is usually stuff my kiddos won’t try. But I love it.
Anyone out there that loves cooking food that the kids won’t touch?? That’s our story over here at Sizzle Kidz! So we take it one skill at a time. The kids get to do fun stuff like roll dough with a rolling pin, while mom gets to make more than just cheese quesadillas and Pillsbury croissants…not that there’s anything wrong with those delicious things
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Anyway, get the kids learning with the following tasks, and you also get a beautiful final dish to serve as well! Win-Win!!
Have Kiddos Try These Skills:
- Use hands or bread hook to knead the bread.
- Use rolling pin to roll the dough.
- Spread the garlic sage butter over the dough sheet.
- Watch the yeast make the bread rise.
- Chop the sage.
This is what the dough pieces look like in the pan before they rise and are ready for baking!
You Will Need These Ingredients:
- flour
- instant yeast
- kosher salt
- whole milk
- heavy cream
- honey
- butter
- egg
- garlic
- dried sage
- grated parmesan
- flaky salt (optional for garnish)
- fresh thyme (optional for garnish)
You Will Need These Tools:
- rolling pin
- bundt cake pan or bread pan
- knife or pizza cutter
- large fork (to help knead dough)
- large mixing bowl (these are great because they have handles and spouts that make it easy to use!)
Pull-Apart Homemade Bread Wreath with Garlic Sage Butter
- Total Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Yield: 12 servings (4 pieces) 1x
Description
Kids & guests both love this pretty pull-apart bread wreath!
Lessons & Skills:
- Kneading Bread
- Rolling Dough
- Spreading Butter
- Rising Yeast
- Chopping Herbs
- Fractions
- Multiplication using Arrays
Ingredients
Bread Dough
- 4 3/4 cups white flour
- 2 packets instant yeast
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 cup warm whole milk
- 2/3 cup warm heavy cream
- 3 Tablespoons honey
- 2 Tablespoons butter
- 1 egg
Garlic Sage Butter
- 1 stick (8 Tbsp.) butter
- 3 or more garlic cloves (I used a ton, like 8 cloves)
- 1/3 cup grated parmesan (the kind you get in the green container!)
- 3 Tablespoons fresh or dried sage (whatever you have)
- Flaky sea salt & fresh thyme for topping…. if you’re fancy 🙂
Instructions
Make the Bread Dough
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- In large bowl, combine FLOUR, YEAST & SALT.
- Add the WARM MILK, WARM HEAVY CREAM, HONEY, EGG & 2 TBSP. BUTTER.
- Mix/Knead with a dough hook or a big fork for about 5 minutes until all combined.
- Cover with plastic wrap and let sit on counter for 30 minutes to an hour. (show kids how it rises!)
Make the Garlic Sage Butter
- Combine the STICK OF BUTTER (8 TBSP.), GRATED/CRUSHED GARLIC, GRATED PARMESAN, SAGE & PINCH OF SALT together in a smallish bowl and mix it up. It will smell heavenly!!
Assemble the Bread Wreath
- Divide the risen bread into 4 equal pieces.
- Sprinkle some flour on your counter or a large cutting board.
- Roll out 1 of the 4 pieces into a large rectangle. Spread 1/4 of the sage butter onto it.
- Cut it into 4 strips one way, and 3 strips the other way, making 12 squares. (This is just asking for a math fractions lesson…just sayin’!)
- Spray or grease the bundt pan with butter.
- Arrange the dough squares side-by-side, like dominoes, in a bundt-cake-type pan (see photos). Fill 1/4 of the pan. More math!!!! Yes!!!!
- Repeat with the other 3 pieces of the original dough ball.
- Cover with plastic wrap and let rise about 1 hour. The pieces will puff up and fill in the gaps.
- Take off plastic, put in oven & bake until golden. Let stand a few minutes after baking and remove from pan, sprinkle with flaky salt & fresh thyme….if you’re fancy 🙂 Enjoy!
Notes
- You can use regular bread pans if you don’t have a Bundt pan. Just line up the pieces like dominoes from front to back and you’re set.
- Keep an eye on
- Prep Time: 30
- Cook Time: 40
What do you think?