This is not a paid article but who doesn’t love Nutella, right? I bet if we could we would be eating Nutella every single day. My husband is crazy about Nutella. Well, not as much as dulce de leche but it’s at the same level of craziness. I have to hide the Nutella jars in our house because he could finish them all within several days. Yup.

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The Braided Star Shape

Let’s get straight to the main point of this recipe, the braided star shape bread. Is it difficult to make? Nope, not at all. But I will tell you that it does get messy a bit but the beauty of it is that when it’s baked, it’s going to come out beautiful. Trust me on that.

You can find the written recipe for the bread dough at the bottom of this page. It’s just a straightforward bread recipe.

Now let’s talk about making that beautiful star shape. What I did first was divide my dough into 4 equal portions. I formed each portion into a ball and set them aside. Working with one ball at a time, I flattened it a bit and rolled it into a thin disk.

I was aiming for a 20 cm diameter disk and I used the base of a baking pan as a guidance. I rolled it slightly bigger than the pan. I placed the rolled dough on a baking sheet and continued the same thing with the rest of the balls. I kept the rolled dough between baking sheets so that they didn’t stick to each other.

Then I took 1 rolled dough and marked it with the 20 cm pan base. I simply pressed the pan lightly on the dough. Then I set the pan base aside. I spooned some Nutella onto the marked area and spread it evenly.

Note, warm the Nutella for a few seconds in the microwave so that it’s a bit thinner and thus easier to spread.

Then I took another rolled dough and placed it on top of the first dough that by now had some Nutella on it. I marked it again using the pan base, carefully not to press too hard to avoid the Nutella oozing out.

Again I spread some Nutella onto the marked area. I repeated the same with the rest of the dough. The final dough was left without Nutella on top.

Ok, so far so good. Right?

What I did next was to put the whole stack onto a baking sheet. Don’t worry. Just swiftly lift it and slide a baking sheet underneath.

Then I took the base pan again and put it on top of the stack. Using a sharp knife I cut the stack all around and discarded the excess dough. I removed the base pan and I was left with a perfect round stack of dough and Nutella. Awesome!

Next!

I used a small glass/cup placed it on the center of the stack and lightly pressed it. I wanted to cut 16 strips starting from the edge of the glass. First I cut the stack into 4. Then each section is cut into 2. And that section I cut into 2 again. I was left with 16 strips. Great!

Now comes the twisting part. Don’t worry, it’s actually simple. I took 2 strips that were next to each other and pulled them a bit. Then I twist them 2 times in opposite directions. I did the same with the rest. Simple, don’t you think?

Now comes the pinching part. Taking the edges of 2 twisted strips that were next to each other, I pinched them together. I did the same to the rest. Yes, that was all.

As I mentioned earlier, it will get a bit messy but do not worry. It will come out good.

To finish it off, I removed the glass and covered the braided star bread loosely with cling film. I left it to rest for about 30 minutes so that it puffed up a bit. Then I brushed it with egg white and baked it in the oven until it was golden brown and fully cooked.

I left it to cool slightly on a rack. It’s best eaten slightly warm. It freezes well too. We ate some and I froze the balance. I put it in a zip lock bag. To eat it, I just defrosted it on the kitchen counter 1 day earlier. Before eating I warmed it in a microwave and it was as delicious as the day it was baked.

If you love making bread as much as I do then I highly recommend my mini panettone with chocolate chips and my classic panettone bread recipes. They're so fun and rewarding to make!

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