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Full Moon Focaccia

A festive and fun Halloween Focaccia Bread, with skeletal trees made from red onion and shallots, turnip full moon and ghosts, carrot pumpkins, seaweed bats and pepper stars.
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Course: bread
Keyword: Halloween, Halloween Food
Servings: 10

Ingredients

Focaccia Bread

  • 1 3/4 cups warm water
  • 2 1/4 tsp active dry yeast
  • 1 Tbsp sugar
  • 1/4 tsp squid ink (for color)
  • 5 cups all purpose flour (plus more for kneading)
  • 1 Tbsp kosher salt (plus more for sprinkling top before baking)
  • 1 cup olive oil, divided extra virgin
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 Tbsp fresh rosemary, minced

Garnishes

  • 1 red onion, sliced into rounds (tree)
  • 1 shallot, sliced into rounds (tree knot)
  • 1 carrot (pumpkins)
  • 1 turnip (ghosts and moon)
  • 1 yellow bell pepper (stars)
  • assorted fresh herbs (chives, parsley, thyme, rosemary)
  • seaweed nori sheet (for bat)

Instructions

Focaccia Bread

  • Mix warm water, yeast, sugar, and squid ink in a small bowl and let yeast proof for 15 minutes until frothy. In a stand mixer with a dough hook, add flour, salt, 1/2 cup of the olive oil, and the yeast mixture and mix on low until just combined. Turn mixer on medium speed and mix for 5 minutes. Add additional flour if dough is too sticky.
  • Turn out of mixer and knead once or twice to form a ball. Clean mixer bowl and add a small amount of olive oil, add dough and cover with plastic wrap and let rise for 1 hour or until doubled. While dough rises, make herbed olive oil with the remaining 1/2 cup of olive oil by adding minced garlic and rosemary and set aside. (While dough rises prepare vegetable garnishes, see below)
  • Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Pour the herbed olive oil onto a large rimmed baking sheet.
    Turn out dough onto cookie sheet, turning the dough to coat each side with olive oil. Spread out dough and use your fingers to poke holes into the surface of the dough. Cover and let rise 1 hour. (While dough rises, assemble a mock up of your Halloween scene on a cutting board.)

Garnishes

  • Red Onion Tree- Cut a small slice of shallot for the tree scar and then cut slices of red onionand slice a radius into slices to create long strips of onions for the branches and trunk of thetree. Soften onions so that they lay flat, by heating them in a warm oven for 3-5 minutes.Remove from oven and let cool enough to handle. Assemble a mock up scene on a cuttingboard.
  • Carrot Pumpkins- Peel the large end of a carrot and cut off a 3 inch section of the large end.Use a knife to cut two vertical shallow cuts on the 3 inch section of carrot to form the stemand then cut perpendicular to the vertical stem cut to wedge out of the carrot on each side ofthe stem. Slice carrot into thin slices to create pumpkin slices.
  • Turnip Moon and ghosts- Cut a thin slice from the middle of a turnip to make the full moon. Cut very thin slices to make ghosts using a ghost cookie cutter. The thinner slices of turnips will create a translucent looking ghosts. :)
  • Pepper Stars- Use a mini star cookie cutter to cut stars out of yellow peppers.
  • Transfer your mock up from the cutting board to the surface of the focaccia and then garnish with fresh herbs. Sprinkle top of focaccia bread with kosher salt before baking.
  • Using a bat paper punch or cookie cutter, punch out or cut out a bat from nori seaweed and place in the center of the moon.
  • In a preheated 425 degree oven, bake for 25-30 minutes. Let cool and serve