Matcha Christmas Tree Bread

Total Time: 4 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 2 hrs 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1 cup water
• 4 teaspoons oil, 56g (half vegetable oil and half butter)
• 3 cups bread flour, 360g (up to half can be wholewheat flour)
• 3 teaspoons japanese green tea powder (matcha)
• 1 3/4 teaspoons salt
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons yeast
• 1/2 cup dried cranberries, chopped
• 6 plum tomatoes, halved

Recipe

• 1 put into the bread machine the water, oil, flour, tea powder, salt, sugar, yeast, and dried cranberries. use the dough cycle.
• 2 form the resulting dough into a tall triangle lying down on a floured pan. with scissors, cut 5 branches on each side. pat flour on each branch and twist and swirl it outward.
• 3 for the top end, pinch to form a tree top. for the lower end, tuck all the leftover dough under the tree trunk.
• 4 cut small openings and insert tomato halves.
• 5 place in a warm place until doubled in size. spray with water and bake at 180degrees 20-30min. (or until the color is right and inside measures 80 degrees celsius.).