Pull Apart Wheat Bouquet

Sift the dry ingredients (double zero flour, semolina flour, garlic powder and plain flour) in a big bowl.

Add the sugar and the dry yeast to the warm milk, mix it and leave it on the counter for 10 minutes (until it doubled in size).

Pour the milk into the dry ingredients and knead the dough for a few minutes.

Add the Monini Classico Extra Virgin Olive Oil and salt and knead the dough for another 10-12 minutes (until it’s soft and elastic).

Cover the dough with a wet tea-towel and leave it in a warm place for 1-1.5 hours.

Once the dough has increased in size, preheat a fan-forced oven to 200C.

Now it’s time to make the wheat bouquet.

Get a piece of baking paper (40x30cm).

Roll 1/3 of the dough (around 2cm of thickness) onto the baking paper and shape it as “lightbulb” (It will be the base where the wheat bouquet will be built).

Create a circle in the middle of it, where you will place your bowl with the Monini Classico Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Brush the surface of your base with some milk (it will act as a “glue”).

Roll small pieces of dough to make the stems. Approximately 10-15 cm long and just 0.5 cm of diameter. You will need 30-40 of them.

Place them on the bottom half of the “lightbulb” shaped base.
To make the wheat heads, you just have to make a few oval shaped balls (2-2.5cm of diameter and 4-5cm in length).

Using a pair of scissors make small cuts on the oval shaped balls, to create the spikes. Place them on the top half (the bigger part) of the lightbulb shape.

Once it’s all covered, make a braid with the leftover dough and place it just below the circle where you are going to place the small bowl. Place a piece of foil in the circle and fill it with some dry beans.
Brush your art piece with some milk and put it in the preheated oven

Bake it at 200C for 15 minutes, then cover the art piece with a sheet of foil and keep baking it for another 15-20 min (until it’s nice and golden).

Remove it from the oven and brush it with some Monini Classico Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Remove the foil with the beans and fill your bowl with some delicious Monini Classico Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Now just pull apart the wheat heads, dip them in the oil and enjoy it.