Jazz Cabaret - Bruschetta

Bruschetta is an toasted Italian bread drenched in olive oil and is usually served topped with garlic or tomatoes. Every year, our school jazz band would have a show in our school with a theme and they would make it like a actually jazz show with food and drinks. This year theme was "The Panorama Roof Ballroom". All the food the food classes made for this event tried to incorporate that theme in and most of them involved stars.

 This was a simple bruschetta recipe with Roma tomatoes, chopped onions, fresh cilantro leaves, balsamic vinegar and olive oil. We used really small star shaped cookie cutters to cut out little star shaped cheese. It was really cute and delicious!

Pulla

Pulla is a mildly sweet Finnish sweet roll/ dessert bread that is flavored with crushed cardamom seeds and is either braided or rolled.

This bread was similar yet unlike any bread that I ever made. Tender texture, slightly sweet, spiced with cardamom, and flat-out beautiful. 

We grounded the cardamom seeds ourselves, which was fun to do. 

Here we divided our dough into threes, since one of our group members was gone on a field trip. We, then, divided the piece we each had in 3, 4 and 5 strips.

And here was the fun part! Braiding the bread!

 I did a five braid one 

A group mate did a normal three braided one

 And I made my sister make a four braided one (it's really hard) 

Since we had some left-over dough left, Faith and I braided it and then curled it to make a circle.

 We brushed each loaf with egg wash and sprinkled it with course white sugar.