Common allergens- Gluten (flour), dairy (milk optional)
Method
- Add the bread flour, yeast and salt to a large mixing bowl. Pour in the warm water and mix together with very clean hands until you have a rough dough. If the mix is too sticky, you could add a bit more flour.
- Tip the dough onto a clean floured surface and knead for about 5 minutes. Kneading is when you fold, press and stretch the dough with your hands, it’s very important to help make your bread rolls rise in the oven.
- Put the mixture back into the bowl and cover with a clean tea towel. Leave it to rise for an hour. It should double in size!
- Preheat the oven to 220°C (200 fan) / gas mark 7
- Scrape the risen dough out onto a floured surface and knead again for about 5 minutes. The kneading will help make the dough silky smooth.
- Divide the dough into 4 equal balls and roll each ball into an oval shape. To make your rolls look like hedgehogs, pull a pointy nose out from one end of each oval.
- Now you need to give your hedgehogs some spikes! Ask your grown-up helper to use scissors to snip deep cuts along the back of each roll. Then, pull up the spikes.
- Give your hedgehog two raisin eyes and another raisin to be its pointy nose!
- Finally, glaze the hedgehogs with a little milk, to help them go brown and place onto a baking tray. Leave enough space between each hedgehog as they may expand a little in the oven.
- Bake for 25 minutes or until golden brown.
