Twelve Days of Baking - Day 11

I literally laughed out loud when I opened the oven and saw the final results of today's recipe. I almost didn't post it, because, well you can see for yourself.

But, I'm really tired and have a million things to do before tomorrow, and making an extra recipe isn't one of them.

I saw this on a website somewhere - it's a head of Santa, made out of bread dough. I've done a little with bread sculpture in the past, but clearly I forgot some important steps.

Here is Santa before he went in the oven.

 

Kind of cute. 

 

I had a feeling, though, that making his nose so big would come back to haunt me. It did.

 

This is what I saw when I opened the oven door.

  

 



 

Poor Santa! See what I mean about the nose? And the brim of his hat? What is that? It turned into some sort of angry unibrow.

 

Luckily, Santa is just like the rest of us and has one angle that is better than the others.

 

 

 

Still not great, but you can at least tell who he is, right?

 

If you want to make your own Santa head, the instructions I followed are here.