• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
Good Grief Cook
  • Home
  • ABOUT
  • Privacy Policy 2025
  • Recipe Index
menu icon
go to homepage
  • Recipes
  • Grief Lessons
  • ABOUT
  • Subscribe
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Grief Lessons
  • ABOUT
  • Subscribe
ร—
Home ยป Recipes ยป healthy

Family Fun Focaccia Art How To

Published: Aug 23, 2022 ยท Modified: Jun 22, 2024 by Lisa Keys ยท This post may contain affiliate links ยท 1 Comment

Jump to Recipe

Last Updated on June 22, 2024 by Lisa Keys

Baked focaccia art bread in pan with my granddaughter blowing a party horn.

My granddaughter, Annabelle, is a budding artist. She loves to draw, paint and do crafts. Luckily for me she also loves spending time in the kitchen. We have baked and decorated all kinds of treats together. While decorating cookies with icing and sprinkles is always a big hit I think the blank canvas of the focaccia dough provides a more artistic experience. Want to give family fun focaccia art a try?

Family Fun Focaccia Art How To

  • create a blank canvas of focaccia dough (recipe follows)
  • gather colorful toppings like fresh herbs, edible flowers and vegetables
  • let the kids take a walk through a garden or park to gather inspiration
  • enjoy these teachable moments employing all your senses
Family fun focaccia art created by my granddaughter. She created a lovely garden.

As you can see Annabelle created a lovely flower garden using simple ingredients right from the fridge and my backyard. Colorful slivered peppers, carrots and pickled red onions make lovely flower petals while fresh picked rosemary and flat leaf parsley add all the necessary aromatic greenery. What's in your fridge? Set out small bowls of slivered, sliced, picked and chopped of whatever you have and let imaginations go wild.

Baked family fun focaccia art bread.

There are lots of focaccia recipes to choose from and any one of them will do for this fun family focaccia art activity. Use your favorite recipe or try the one I feature here using sourdough starter and some healthy whole grain organic flour.  This recipe features in Twinkl Picnic in the Park Blog

Focaccia art bread.

Family Fun Focaccia Art

Lisa Keys
Make some dough and have some fun with the kids.ย 
5 from 1 vote
Prevent your screen from going dark
Print Recipe Pin Recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes mins
Cook Time 30 minutes mins
Proof and Resting time 4 hours hrs
Total Time 4 hours hrs 45 minutes mins
Course breads
Cuisine Italian
Servings 18
Calories 134 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 424 grams all-purpose flour
  • 180 grams whole grain organic flour or bread flour
  • 465 grams warm water
  • 10 grams fine sea salt
  • 115 grams active sourdough starter
  • 12 grams extra-virgin olive oil plus more for coating the pan and drizzling on top
  • flaked salt
  • Fresh toppings of choice: herbs, slivered/chopped vegetables, edible flowers

Instructions
 

  • In a stand mixer, fitted with paddle attachment, combine flours, water, salt, sourdough starter and oil. Mix on low speed until well incorporated. Switch to dough hook. Increase speed to medium and knead for 5 minutes.
  • Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and let the dough rest for 2 hours. During this 2 hour time do 4 sets of stretch and folds starting at the 30 minute mark.
  • Scrape dough into a well-oiled 13x9-inch baking pan. Cover and let rise for 2 hours. As it proofs the dough will fill the pan, but with damp hands can be gently nudged into the corners. Now, at this point you can let it continue to proof another two hours until well-risen and bubbly or you can put it in the fridge for an overnight rise* (see notes).
  • Heat oven to 450F.ย 
  • With damp fingers, poke the dough all over the top creating dimples.
  • Drizzle olive oil all over the top.
  • Decorate the top of the dough as desired with assorted toppings and flaked salt
  • Bake for 30 minutes or until golden brown.
  • Cool in pan on rack.

Notes

Remove pan of dough from the fridge and bring it to room temperature. Let it finish proofing until well risen and bubbly. This can take a few hours depending on the room temperature.

Nutrition

Calories: 134kcalCarbohydrates: 27gProtein: 4gFat: 1gSaturated Fat: 0.1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 0.2gMonounsaturated Fat: 1gSodium: 217mgPotassium: 36mgFiber: 1gSugar: 0.1gCalcium: 6mgIron: 2mg
Keyword art, bread, child's play, focaccia, kid's activity, sourdough
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
Slices of focaccia bread
serve right from the pan it is baked in

More healthy

  • Sous vide asparagus recipe.
    Sous Vide Asparagus Recipe with Parmesan Lemon Butter
  • Healthy orange chicken recipe.
    Healthy Orange Chicken
  • 1 serving of citrus seared scallops.
    Citrus Seared Scallops
  • Quinoa fruit salad.
    Quinoa Fruit Salad with Miso Honey Vinaigrette

Reader Interactions

Comments

    5 from 1 vote

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

    Recipe Rating





  1. Lisa Keys

    December 06, 2023 at 7:50 am

    5 stars
    Such a fun recipe to share with my grandchildren plus a sneaky way to get veggies into their diet. Kids seem to enjoy anything they make themselves.

    Reply

Primary Sidebar

Me and my son.

Hi, I'm Lisa! Welcome to Good Grief Cook.

I am serving up award winning recipes and lessons in grief.

More about me here.

Popular

  • Kataifi wrapped pesto shrimp.
    Shrimp Appetizers with Pesto and Kataifi
  • Easy Showstopper Pesto Appetizers.
    Star Bread Pesto Appetizer
  • Blueberry bread pudding.
    The Best Blueberry Bread Pudding at the Bench
  • Dipping a sandwich with chips on the side.
    French Dip Sandwich Recipe

Footer

back to top

  • Home
  • About
  • Privacy Policy
  • Contact

Copyright 2025 Good Grief Cook

Rate This Recipe

Your vote:




A rating is required
A name is required
An email is required

Recipe Ratings without Comment

Something went wrong. Please try again.