Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Christmas Cookies and Easy No Knead bread

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date's 'Christmas Cookies' theme!  Here are the Christmas Cookies I did for you today!

For the dinner date, I made some easy no knead bread.  Daughter L found the recipe based on a Pinterest post.  I used unbleached flour below.

3 c flour

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp yeast (active or instant is fine)

1 1/2 c warm water (110F)

Mix flour, salt, yeast in a large bowl.  Mix in warm water.  Cover with plastic wrap 6 - 15 hours.  I did this in the evening and baked it the next morning.

Preheat oven 450 F

add 3 cups of very hot water to a 9 x 13" baking pan.  Place it in the bottom rack of the oven.  The water will create steam to keep the bread crusty on the outside as it bakes.

Transfer the sticky dough to a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, loosely shape into a loaf with floured hands. Consider patting some flour on the top and cutting several slits on top.  Bake 25-30 mins until browned.

The next day I made the same recipe with whole wheat flour.

Then the next day I made the same recipe with white flour.  It is easy!