Although I have probably seen this before, I have never made Santa Bread. Have you? After prepping this post I found myself adding dough to my grocery list for this week because I know my kiddos would love to do this. 
In the meantime, I want to share some photos with you from when our contributor Kathy made Santa Bread with her granddaughter recently. It looks like they had a great time!
Kathy shared with us that, just like the tutorial she followed on Taste of Home, she also bought frozen dough to make her Santa Bread rather than making her own. It saves a lot of time and frustration, unless you have made your own dough before. If you decide to make your own Santa Bread, let us know if you make your own dough or use frozen.
Supplies Needed
- 2 loaves of frozen bread dough (or make your own)
- 1/4 cup of flour
- 1-2 egg yolks
- red food colour
- 2 large raisins or 1 black olive
- pizza cutter or scissors
- roller
- brush
- cookie sheet
Directions
1) Open your defrosted dough and place onto floured surface. Depending on how large you want your Santa Bread to be, take a portion of the second loaf of dough and combine the two together. Roll out the dough on your floured surface.
2) Shape the larger portion of your bread dough into an elongated triangle with rounded corners to make Santa’s face and his hat.
3) Using the smaller portion of dough (the second loaf), flatten it out and shape it into Santa’s beard. Make sure to leave some of the second loaf aside for use later. Use the pizza cutter or food scissors to cut the beard into strips, stopping within 1 inch of the top of the beard.
4) Place the beard portion of dough onto the bottom on Santa’s “face.” Be careful when picking up your sliced dough. Gently maneuver the dough until you have it where you want it.
5) If you like you can now gently twist the cut dough strips to make the beard appear curly. Bend up the ends as well.
6) Use the rest of the dough to create the brim of Santa’s hat, a round ball for the pom-pom of the hat and Santa’s nose. If you like, gently fold over the top portion of the hat to create a “floppy” look or you can leave it flat. Add the pom-pom.
7) Next, add the red food colouring to one beaten egg yolk and then carefully brush the tinted egg onto the brim of Santa’s hat and the top “flop” part, as well as his nose and cheeks! Brush the plain, un-tinted yolk onto the rest of the dough.
8) Using either the raisins or halves of one olive, place the eyes on Santa’s face and add your nose.
9) Bake your Santa Bread according to the packaged dough instructions and enjoy!
Will you make Santa Bread this year? Make sure you let us know in the comments!
FT&PD
Suz & Kathy
That looks very cute but I’d feel bad eating it!
Haha, not me! Fresh, hot bread is wonderful!
This is just the cutest. My girls would have so much making and decorating this with me.
They sure would. A great new tradition to start for the holidays this year.
OK, I’m looking forward to viewing your creation, Suz! That is something else! Probably just tastes like bread, I would guess?
Yes Gemma it’s tastes like regular bread,we made toast the next morning for breakfast.
These are cool and a great hit for the holidays, my cousin made these every year, they were fun sitting on the table and just tearing parts of Santa and dipping into different sauces!!
Yes they certainly are fun to make and fun to eat !
what fun! Will have to make one during the holidays my daughter is home to help!
Really cool! These are delicious.
Thank you for the post. I would bake it for kids Christmas party.
That’s a great idea Marina! You could even make little ones for each child.
They are super easy and so delicious,the kids will love them!
What a fun thing to do with your children. It looks pretty too.
Great for a centerpiece at a Christmas party!
What a unique idea, love it.
I can just imagine the family breaking of pieces to dip into various sauces, lovely idea. 
What a lovely way to think about it! A fun, new tradition to try out.
I love your Santa bread. I will probably wait to make it next year when most of our family should be home. This would be a great activity to do with a granddaughter. Thank you for sharing with us.
I love small things like this; always adds to the festivities of the season! Thank you!
Yes they sure make for good quality time spent with the kids,so much fun to make !
That..is…too cool!
Haha, glad you like it!
This looks adorable! I think I’ll attempt to make it with my granddaughter. I love spending time with her, especially crafting or baking.
This is such a fun and super cute idea. I love it and will be trying this for next Christmas. Thank you
The kids will be making this Santa again for the holidays. Such a wonderful time of year !
This is so adorable and creative! It would be so much fun to make with my grandchildren.
I’ll eat it with CHEESES !!!
I have never seen anything like this before. So cute, the kids will love to help with making this.
That Beard is excellent!
The kids will enjoy making this Santa !
That’s so cute! I all to save this for next year. My granddaughters would love it.