Christmas Wreath Focaccia

This Christmas wreath focaccia is fun to decorate and even more fun to eat. 

 

To decorate it, I used large flat leaf parsley (which I had growing in a pot on my patio), scallions, cherry tomatoes, mini pepperonis, mini sweet peppers, and, to add flavor, mini fresh mozzarella pearls. 

You don't have to limit yourself to the ingredients I used. Use whatever you have on hand, including rosemary, sage, basil, roasted garlic, sliced red onions, chives, prosciutto, salami, or kale. 

You can even knead some greens into the dough before baking. 

I think it would be so fun to make this focaccia with kids. The recipe makes two 10 inch rounds, and you could make the dough through the second rise and then let the kids go to town decorating them.

I think I sort of under decorated this focaccia and probably could have doubled the amount of parsley that I used. It looked super full before baking, but as the parsley wilted, it looked a bit more sparse. 

Regardless, the beauty of this focaccia is its flavor, no matter how you top it. 

This focaccia begins with a "sponge" that you let rise overnight. After that, you mix the dough and let it rise, stretching and folding it after it doubles and letting it rise a second time. 

After that, you divide the dough and spread it out into a ten inch cake pan that has been spread with good olive oil. The flavor is amazing and the crust is super crispy. 

 

This dough is super hydrated. You will need to use wet or oiled hands to work with it, but once you get used to working with wet dough, you'll really love the light and airy results. 

You will need two 10 inch cake pans, which are super reasonably priced and you can easily find at any craft store. 

In addition, you will need a stand mixer for mixing the dough. The dough is just too wet to knead by hand. 

This focaccia can be served warm from the oven, cut into wedges. Leftovers are delicious re-warmed in a 350 degree F oven for about 10 minutes. Wrap it loosely in foil before heating. 

More Delicious Focaccia Recipes:

Roasted pepper and chile focaccia

BLT focaccia

Potato rosemary focaccia

Spinach and olive focaccia

Fruit focaccia

Herb Oil Focaccia

More Decorated Bread Recipes:

Panini al Pomodoro

Piglet Buns

Dim Sum Pandas

This is about the lightest focaccia ever! It's tear apart delicious and amazing dipped in your favorite tomato basil sauce. 

To keep the greens in the wreath green, spray them with water just before baking, and then spray them one more time abount half way through baking. This will help keep them from turning brown. 

This month the Bread Bakers, hosted by Kelly of Passion Kneaded, are creating bread art. We have shaped bread, decorative bread scoring, and sculpted bread! 

• A Christmas Partridge for my True Love from A Day in the Life on the Farm
• Christmas Wreath Focaccia from Karen's Kitchen Stories
• Mini Fougasse from Ambrosia
• Roasted Garlic Focaccia Wheel from Magical Ingredients
• Rudolph Reindeer Sourdough Bread from Zesty South Indian Kitchen
• Santa Bread from Passion Kneaded
• Shekerbura from A Messy Kitchen
• Sunflower Bread from Making Miracles
• Wool Roll Bread With Cranberries from Sneha's Recipe

#BreadBakers is a group of bread loving bakers who get together once a month to bake bread with a common ingredient or theme. Follow our Pinterest board right here. Links are also updated each month on this home page.

We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient.