A Decorated Loaf of Flatbread

Lately, I have been seeing some lovely loaves online and thought I would give it a try myself.  

I made a batch of dough, same way I usually do, then pressed half of it flat onto a cookie sheet.  
I used basil, rosemary, and thyme for the stems and leaves.  Grape tomatoes, zucchini,  and slices of peppers were the flowers.After putting it together, I thought it needed more, and added slices of black olives to the center of the zucchini flowers.

I probably should have taken more time to cut the peppers into better petal shapes, but these were fine, if not exactly right.

It got sprayed it with olive oil cooking spray, sprinkled Italian seasoning over that, and let it rise before baking.

The bread baked up nicely, and we sliced it with a pizza cutter. The full branches of thyme made nice stems, but were a bit much.  Although easily picked off before eating. The sticks came away, with the leaves still mostly on the dough.

Sugarwings wasn’t a fan of most of the toppings.  She turned the other half of the loaf into twisted breadsticks and a single piece of flatbread with just basil, which she does like.

It turned out better than our Easter Bunny Bread, which was cute as a dough rabbit. (Before rising)

After it rose, it looked like Burl Ives in Rudolf. 
After baking, he looked like Burl had been beaten up.

I might stick to floral scenes….