{"id":2763,"date":"2011-01-31T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artisanbreadinfive.com\/?p=2763"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T20:57:31","slug":"valentines-day-bread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisanbreadinfive.com\/2011\/01\/31\/valentines-day-bread\/","title":{"rendered":"Valentine’s Day Bread!"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Valentine’s day is near and we have a fun way to celebrate. No, that is not dough tinted with red food coloring, but our Red Beet dough from Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day<\/a>! It’s bright color is perfect to be baked on the holiday all about red hearts. Those who are beet lovers will consider this the best gift ever. If your valentine is not a big fan of this jewel toned root vegetable, you can certainly make the heart-shaped loaf with any of our doughs, especially the chocolate dough<\/a>.<\/p>\n Thank you all for entering so many wonderful ideas in our pizza contest, we were blown away by your creativity. The winning combination will apear in our upcoming book Artisan Pizza and Flatbreads in Five Minutes a Day<\/em>. We have also picked 5 random winners who will receive a signed copy of HBin5. Those winners are listed below. <\/p>\n Heart-shaped Bread:<\/strong><\/p>\n Use a 3\/4-pound (large orange sized piece) Red Beet dough page 180 in HBin5, or any other dough from our books<\/p>\n Flour for dusting<\/p>\n Parchment for baking<\/p>\n To bake the heart bread:<\/em><\/p>\n Preheat oven to 450 degrees (or follow the oven temperature for the dough you are using), with a baking stone in the middle of the oven and a broiler pan on the bottom shelf for adding steam.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Form the piece of dough into a ball, then poke your thumbs through the ball and create a doughnut shape. If the dough doesn’t want to stretch easily just let it sit for about 5 minutes.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Eventually the dough will relax and allow you to stretch it into a large circle.<\/p>\n