Homemade Bread Cornucopia
It was so fun to make this cornucopia! I love recipes that look like they were a lot of trouble to make, but they were actually really easy. I was able to take my cornucopias to my family's thanksgiving and they all seemed impressed with it. It's definitely impressive looking. I originally planned to make only one cornucopia, but I had leftover dough so I made a little one to accompany it. One thing I would suggest, that I would have done differently, is use cookie cutters for the decorations. I realized I have no cutters myself, so I tried to cut everything out with a knife. It was too much work if you ask me, but if that's what you want to do I won't stop you!
I originally found this recipe while I was looking through pinterest, but I couldn't ever find the real link to a recipe. After a lot of digging I found the original post. (You can view it here.) It was a great tutorial for me and has wonderful images showing how they made their foil cones. They also have a chocolate cornucopia that I'd love to try sometime.
Ingredients:
- Pizza Dough
- Foil
- 1 Egg
- 1 tsp. Water
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 350°.
- Create your foil cone. Like in the link above, I used the water bottle method to form my cone. Basically what you do is you take a nice long sheet of foil and you roll the foil around it. To keep it from becoming a cylinder just close off one of the ends and open up the other end. Continue to add foil around the cone shape until it feels like it will hold under the weight of the pizza dough. I used about four layers with my small cornucopia and about 5 with my larger one. Once you've finished creating your shape, curve the bottom point to create that cornucopia look.
- Roll out your pizza dough to about 1/4 inch thick. Cut into 1/2 in. strips.
- Spray your foil cone lightly with cooking spray to ensure your bread won't stick. Start wrapping your strips of pizza dough around the foil. I personally started mine at the end of my cone. Be sure to pinch the dough together at the ends so they stay together.
- Once you've wrapped the dough to create the cornucopia you'd like feel free to create shapes to decorate with. I made leaves, acorns and berries for mine. I also braided some of the leftover dough and wrapped it around the front of the cone like they did in the recipe I followed.
- In a small bowl, whisk together the egg and tsp. of water and brush all over your dough.
- Bake for 20-25 minutes or until nice an golden brown! Enjoy!