I wish I could publish this earlier so that I might have given you an option for this Christmas but I couldn't make it.
Maybe next year...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Everyone
Ingredients:250g milk
10g sugar
25g fresh yeast
700g flour
2 eggs
100g sunflower oil
20g salt
50g melted margarine
1 pitted black olive
2 egg yolks
Red food coloring
Preparation: Warm milk for 1 minute at 37ºC on Speed 1.
Add sugar and yeast, mix for 10 seconds on Speed 4.
Sift in flour. Add oil, salt and eggs. Knead for 5 minutes.
Transfer it into a large bowl, cover with plastic film. Let it rise for 1.5 - 2 hours.
Cut some baking paper according to the size of your oven tray
Divide dough in two equal pieces.
With a rolling pin shape the first piece of dough into an elongated triangle with rounded corners as in the picture.
Brush it with some melted margarine.
Divide the second piece in two. Get the first piece and roll it as big as to cover the beard area of Santa's face, as in the picture.
Using scissors or a knife cut it into strips leaving 1cm space from the top.
Carefully place the beard on the bottom of Santa's face. Twist the strips and slightly curl up the ends to shape the beard. Brush with some melted margarine
With the remaining dough form Santa's mustache, nose, stripe of the hat and pom pom
Place the strip of the hat and fold it behind the head
To shape mustache, get a piece of dough, roll and cut into strips as in the picture.
Place the mustache on the top of the beard. As we did for the beard, twist the strips. Brush with some melted margarine.
Fold the hat as in the picture. Get two pieces of the remaining dough and shape the pom pom and the nose.
Cut pitted olive in two and shape the eyes.
Brush the bread with one beaten egg yolk.
Beat the second egg yolk with red food coloring. Carefully brush a bit over the nose and the rest over the hat except the pom pom. (If you'd like put aside the pom pom so that you wouldn't mess it, brush over the hat and then place it back)
Bake for 10 minutes in preheated oven at 200ºC
Cover with baking paper, reduce the temperature to 180ºC and bake for another 20 minutes.
Remove the paper. Bake for other 5 to 10 minutes.
Enjoy...
I saw Santa Bread decoration here. It was for some sweet kind of bread. I preferred to make it salty so I used a whole different dough.Photos: http://thermomixtarifdefterim.blogspot.it/2012/12/santa-claus-bread.html