Your family will have as much fun looking at this Thanksgiving centerpiece as they will eating the hot, delicious rolls it contains. You will enjoy making this bread cornucopia. This centerpiece is an interesting way to serve rolls or decorate with at your Thanksgiving feast.

Cornucopia Bread Recipe

Ingredients:
    1 tablespoon yeast
    3 tablespoons sugar
    2 cups warm water
    5 cups flour
    1 teaspoon salt
    Old fashioned V-shaped colander
    Foil
    Nonstick cooking spray
    2 egg whites, slightly beaten
    Pastry brush
    Fall floral picks, leaves
    Ribbon or raffia
    Glue gun
    Clear spray varnish
 
    Sprinkle the yeast and sugar on the water and let them dissolve. Gradually mix the flour and salt into the water mixture. Knead in a mixer or by hand 5 to 8 minutes, until dough is smooth.
    Put in a warm place and let raise until double in size, about 1 to 11/2 hours.
    Cover the colander (or foil crumpled in a V-shape) and a cookie sheet with foil and spray with a nonstick cooking spray. Roll out half of the dough, large enough to wrap around and cover the colander. Brush on slightly beaten egg whites to glue the seam edges together. Place the seamed edge on the bottom and brush the dough with egg whites.
    Roll out the other half of the dough and cut it into 1-inch strips. Place about five strips 1-inch apart on the dough lengthwise from the opening to the small end of the colander. Weave some of the remaining strips of dough across the colander. Pinch the edges into the dough.
    Twist the dough at the narrow end of the cornucopia to form a curve. Roll back the extra dough around the opening or twist a strip of dough and place it around the opening for a finished edge. Brush the dough with egg white and bake immediately in a preheated oven at 400 degrees F for about 10 minutes. Lower the oven temperature to 375 degrees F and bake for another 25 minutes or until golden brown. If the cornucopia is getting too brown before it’s done, cover it with foil.
    Let the cornucopia cool about 5 to 10 minutes and remove the co-lan-der.
    Decorate it with fall floral picks, leaves and ribbon or raffia. Fill it with rolls. If you want to preserve your masterpiece for another year, spray it with clear varnish and store in a cool, dry place.