Easy Festival Bread with Butter Candle
Easy Festival Bread with Butter Candle
What You Need
1 Candle Mold (paper or plastic cup)
1 Wick (premade wick, raw hemp, cotton twine, etc.)
1 Stick of Butter (room temperature)
1+ tsp each Choice of Herbs (rosemary, garlic, parsley, basil, etc.)
1 Round Bread Loaf (sourdough, boule, French, Pagnotta, Italian, Hawaiian)
Instructions
- Mix softened butter with the herbs of your choice. Make sure the mixture is very soft.
- Cut wick to approximately 2″ longer then the height of the cup.
- Poke a small hole in the bottom of the cup.
- String wick through the hole and tape about 1/2″ to the outside bottom of the cup.
- With a small spoon, begin pressing the butter mixture around the wick, holding onto the wick to keep it centered. You may wind the the top of the wick around a pencil or chopstick to hold it in place, but it is not necessary when working with soft butter.
- Place in the refrigerator for at least one hour before using.
- Create a candle holder with your bread by cutting or tearing a circle into the bread to accommodate the size of the top or bottom of the cup (depending on how you wish to place your butter candle), about 1″ deep.
- When the candle has hardened, cut the wick down to 1/4-1/2″, then cut or tear the cup away then place the candle into the hole of your bread. Alternatively, you can very briefly place the cup into warm water to soften a thin outer layer of butter, then slide the candle out directly onto the bread.
Notes
- This is the perfect bread for Imbolc.
