Palm Sunday stick!

OOn a real Palm Sunday stick, the bread cock should of course not be missing!

Below you will find a recipe for the bread Easter bunny. Of course you can also make a rabbit or chick out of it.

What do you need for about 8 bread bunnies?

500 grams of flour (sifted) and a little extra for kneading

1/2 tablespoon instant yeast

2 teaspoons of salt

1 tablespoon of sugar

50 grams of butter or vegetable margarine

250 ml lukewarm milk

8 small currants

1 egg

How do you proceed

1. Sift the flour into a large bowl. Make a deep well in the center of the flower.
2. Dissolve the yeast in the lukewarm milk.
3. Pour the yeast mixture into the well in the bowl with the flour.
4. Carefully stir the yeast mixture with some flour into a mushy batter. Make sure you still have a “wall” of dry flour on the sides of the bowl.
5. Cut the butter or margarine into thin slices. Place the slices of butter or margarine on the yeast mixture.
6. Gently sprinkle salt and sugar around the edges of the bowl on top of the dry flour. When adding the salt, make sure it does not end up in the yeast mixture. Salt and yeast are not friends. Salt kills the yeast and the dough will no longer rise properly.
7. Now let the mixture stand for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, small bubbles will appear in the yeast mixture.
8. Now use a wooden ladle to stir the dough well until it comes together.
9. Sprinkle the work surface with some flour and place the dough on the work surface. Knead until the dough becomes smooth and form the dough into a ball.
10. Place the dough ball in a bowl. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rise in a warm place. This will take about an hour or until the dough has doubled in size. This is the 1^e rise.
11. Take the dough ball out of the bowl and place it on the work surface. Cut the dough into 8 equal pieces.
12. Roll each piece into an oblong rolling pin about 20 cm long. One side of the rolling pin should be slightly thicker than the other side.
13. Form a U-shape with the rolling pin with the thin side of the roll on the left and the thick side on the right. The thin left side will soon become the rooster's head and the thicker right side will become the feathers.
14. Then use clean kitchen scissors to create the feathers, comb and beak of the rooster. You do this by cutting the dough with kitchen scissors. For the feathers, cut three times in the thick right side, for the comb you cut twice at the top of the thin left side and once at the end of the thin left side.
15. Now take a cocktail stick and poke a hole in the head of the bread cock. Press a currant here for the rooster's eye.
16. Place the roosters on a baking tray lined with baking paper. Cover the baking tray with plastic wrap and let the roosters rise in a warm place. Let the roosters rise for an hour or until they have doubled in size. This is the 2^e rise. 
17. Turn on the oven. Preheat the oven to 225 C.
18. Break the egg and beat it. Brush the roosters with the beaten egg.
19. Bake the roosters in the oven at 225 C for 20-25 minutes.
20. When the roosters are golden brown, remove them from the oven. Let the buns cool on a rack until they are at room temperature.
21. Store the bread bunnies in a plastic bag until you are ready to eat them or use them as decoration for the Palm Sunday stick.

To properly place the rolls on the Palm Easter stick, use a potato peeler to cut out a piece of bread on the thickest part of the Easter bunny at the bottom. This ensures that the bread does not break when you place it on the Palmpasen stick and it stays in place better.

Decorate the stick with streamers, stickers, glitter, candies, flowers, feathers, etc.

A tasty and beautiful result..!