Hi and a huge welcome to Steve's kitchen Now you might remember a few years ago I
made a Nutella twisted Christmas tree bread but I've got a special treat for
you today we're gonna make something that's just
as delicious but a lot simpler to make now I'll let you into a little secret
I'm gonna make my dough here today and if you don't want to pop down the
supermarket and you can get a pizza dough of your choice that's frozen it
will work just as well but if you want to start from scratch let me show you
how to make your own dough now to start with our dough we just can take 450
grams that's about a pound of strong bread flour now you could do this with
all-purpose flour but I think bread flour works better I'll give that a
little shakedown we're going to add two teaspoons of instant yeast into this now
away from the yeast I'm going to add a teaspoon of salt add in one cup of warm
water a couple of tablespoons of olive oil and then just get a fork in here and
we start to bring this dough together as your dough starts to draw together I'm
gonna get my hands in there now and just pull this dough into a nice meatball now
in different parts of the world you will get different humidity so you might have
to adjust the water but just a tiny amount at a time but if it starts to
come together and away from the side of the bowl like this it's a little bit
sticky then your dough is perfect we're going to bring it out onto our work
counter and just stretch the dough out fold it back turn it and keep stretching
it kneading it like this for about 10 minutes and you'll see at the moment the
dough is quite grainy
now you can see just how beautiful and silky that dough is started to become if
I pull this up now we should have a beautiful elastic dough you should be
able to push your finger in and it's spring back like that just ten minutes
to make like I say if you want buy shop bought pizza dough but for fifty cents
and a little bit of work it's worth making your own just put a little bit of
olive oil into your bowl take your dough and we're just going to coat it over
with the oil and then we're just going to cover this over now just make sure
you've got a nice tight seal and pop your dough in a warm area until it's
doubled in size now whilst our bread is proving we're going to take our Nutella
take out a little teaspoon and we're going to pop those little Nutella balls
onto some baking parchment and I'm going to make about 23 of these little Nutella
balls and a few extra ones just in case I lose any and I'm going to pop them in
the freezer to firm up while our dough proves now the dough has risen
beautifully got lots of beautiful air in there I'm just going to knock it down
and what we need to do now is take this dough and divide it up into 23 even
pieces now it's a lot easier if you've got scales and you weigh this out
now when we've got the little balls of dough like this what I want you to do is
take them and just start to pad them out like a little pizza and then I've got
one of my little blocks of frozen Nutella I'm just going to pop that in
the center and just ease the dough around the Nutella like that and pinch
it up into a little ball and we want to shape this up get a little tension on
the underside like that and then on a baking sheet I'm just going to lay these
out I'm going to go six along and then up to a point
now I'm gonna use the last two to make a little tree trunk now I like to pop a
plastic bag over these just to trap in some of the moisture and then we want to
leave these to prove for about 30 minutes so they puff up nicely they
won't double in size but they will get quite a bit bigger now you see they've
risen beautifully there they've started to join together before I pop these into
the oven and I've heated my oven to 200 degrees Celsius at 400 Fahrenheit
I just want to brush a little bit of milk over the top of these now you
really don't have to bake these for long just 10 to 15 minutes and we're looking
for color we're looking for a golden brown
now just take a look at these they look absolutely gorgeous
they've plumped up they've risen beautifully whilst the buns are still
hot I've got some brown sugar here in a bowl a little bit of hot water from a
kettle but I just want to paint that sugar solution over the warm dough we
let our Christmas tree pull apart bread just completely cool down with one last
little decoration and then we'll give this a try now it seems almost a shame
to pull this thing apart and start eating it looks gorgeous
I've taken some photographs but come in here and take a look I'm gonna take a
bit here off the trunk let's just pull that apart absolutely gorgeous
let's give this a try what can I say but a Merry Christmas to you all
if you decide to make this send me some pictures across on social media at
Steve's kitchen be good have a great time and I will see you after Christmas
take care