Homemade Artisan Bread (4 Ingredients)
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Let’s Review the December Baking Challenge
December 2019 Sally’s Baking Challenge Recipe: Homemade Butter Cookies
The most participants in ANY baking challenge recipe since its introduction in February 2017! 🙂 These butter cookies are a homemade version of a Danish classic. Shaped with a piping tip and decorated with sugar, sprinkles, chocolate, and/or cherries, these cookies were everywhere in December. Prone to over-spreading, though, this wasn’t exactly the easiest challenge recipe. Taking the extra steps to use the right tools and chill the shaped dough proved that even easy-sounding recipes require attention and precision.
One of my favorite recipe reviews came from reader Laurie:
“These cookies are really easy to make and so delicious! They are perfectly buttery and crumbly- great with coffee or hot chocolate. I highly recommend dipping them in melted chocolate and adding the sprinkles! Thanks, Sally- another awesome recipe!”
We gathered as many butter cookie photo entries as we could and included them below.
December Baking Challenge Winner
Challenge winner for December is Jessica who has already been notified.
This was by far the easiest bread I’ve ever made!! And it was so good! I did not use bread flour tho, but it was still awesome. I will be adding this to my list of favorites, thanks : )
Made this bread last weekend – turned out great and was very easy to make!
Thanks!
Yay! I’m so excited to start the year off with a yeast recipe! Yeast baking intimidates me and I really want to overcome that this year! Thank you so much! God bless!
Tried this recipe today. Such a fun challenge. I did use plain old flour and to make it crispy I threw ice cubes on bottom of oven. Thanks for motivating me to learn how to bake!
Hi Sally,
I just baked the bread tonight (it has been resting in the fridge since yesterday) and I am really pleased with the result! I have tried a fair amount of bread recipes over the years, but I have never successfully made crusty artisan bread. It didn’t rise much so I was afraid that it would be dense but the interior was nice and fluffy, and I will definitely be making this one again. Thanks for the recipe Sally!
What a perfect challenge for January—after all the cookies and sweets in December, a savoury bake is exactly what we need. So excited to give this a whirl!
I’m excited to make this bread today. Nothing beats fresh bread (smell and taste) on a snowy January day!
As mentioned above, bread making is not one of my strong points either. Looking forward to “tackling” this one Sally. Who doesn’t love homemade bread.
Bread has never been my strong point, but I am looking forward to learning.
thanks for all your encouragement
Hope you will participate this month, Sue!
I like Meghan C.’s new year’s resolution! And, yay for another yeast challenge recipe! Psyched to start 2020 with you all, and thank you, dear Sally, for your awesome work. Happy New Year!
Woo hoo! Happy new year, Laurie!
I’m excited to try out this challenge. I didn’t get to as many challenges as I would have liked last year but I’m eager to make this a resolution for 2020– all 12 challenges! Thank you, Sally, for the inspiration. I’m excited to improve my baking, get outside my comfort zone, and to see what 2020 brings 🙂
Meghan C. that is one of my goals for this year as well, want to stretch my baking skills to do more than what I just usually make. looking forward to making this over the weekend.
What a wonderful goal, Meghan! Thank you so much for your readership and participation in my baking challenges!
AH! I can’t wait for this challange! My husband recently bought me a whole pack of Red Star Platinum yeast and I’ve been looking for the perfect recipe to start using it!
Exciting choice after a month of sugar overload! have only made a very small number of experiments with bread, so can’t wait for the tutorials and all the pics from “Sally’s Family”! Happy New Year!!
I cannot wait for January’s challenge! I love baking with yeast but have never made artisan bread before. I’m excited to continue with this recipe!