How to Make Santa Bread

Learn how to make this cute Santa bread with easy step-by-step instructions. He's sure to make your Christmas merry!

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Golden Santa Bread Recipe

Instead of stirring up homemade dough, you can start with 2 loaves of purchased frozen bread dough and turn them onto a lightly floured surface. Take a small portion of one loaf and add it to the other loaf, making it slightly larger. Then begin shaping the Santa dough following the instructions in the next slides.

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Step 1

On a lightly floured surface, shape the larger portion of bread dough into an elongated triangle with rounded corners for Santa’s head and hat.

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Step 2

Shape and flatten half of the smaller portion of dough into a beard. Using a scissors or pizza cutter, cut the beard into strips to within 1 in. of the top of the beard.

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Step 3

Carefully pick up the cut beard piece with both hands and position the beard on the bottom of Santa’s face.

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Step 4

If desired, twist the cut strips in the beard and slightly curl up the ends of the strips to shape the beard.

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Step 5

Add red food coloring to one beaten egg yolk and carefully brush the tinted red yolk over the hat, nose and cheeks. Brush plain yolk over remaining dough.

Bake according to the recipe’s directions and enjoy!

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