In just 30 minutes, you can have garlic knots à la restaurant. The preparation is straightforward because this quick and basic dough recipe doesn’t call for yeast or a proofing period. Get the kids involved in shaping the dough, and add some Parmesan cheese at the end for extra flavor. The star of your next Italian night will be these piping-hot, buttery knots.
| Prep Time: | 15 mins |
| Cook Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 15 mins |
| Yield: | 15 ornaments |
Ingredients
- 4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 ½ cups water
- 1 cup salt
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
- Mix flour, water, and salt together in a large bowl; knead dough until smooth.
- Roll out dough on floured surface about 1/8-inch thick. Cut shapes with cookie cutters. Place on cookie sheets. Make a hole with a toothpick in the top of the ornament for hanging with a ribbon.
- Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour. Cool completely; decorate with paint and varnish to preserve, if desired.
Reviews
-I had to add more water -Puffed up in spots while in the oven 🙁
delicious. pairs well with a glass of rose.
The clay is great its very soft its very easy to mold and if you’re going to make something bigger I would use some aluminum foil for the base. (its a frog btw)
Loved it! Made little necklaces with it, reccomend adding 6 cups flour.
It did not work out puffed up and did not take as long as said in the recipe would not recommend this to anyone
it worked fine
Really good recipe.
Cooking directions TERRIBLE!!!! 350 DEGREES FOR AN HOUR is way too long and hot. I wish I had looked at the reviews first. I made several ornaments with my seven and three year old (including handprints) and they all turned out puffy and brown. I normally check reviews, but with two little ones and making dinner at the same time – I just didn’t take the time. My mistake. Cook lower and slower.
Went to make this..put it in the oven..my office gave a code error of 2 (oven too high) and door locked! It would have burnt my oven out! Please post next time, that maybe convection ovens need to have it much lower? 350F seems way too high even for regular oven.
Easy to make… but super sticky… not easy for kids. 🙁 Not sure if it was me or just they way these recipes work.
I should have read the reviews first 🙁 just spent all morning doing my baby and toddlers footprints and handprints and put them in the oven. Went to check on them and they were puffed up like huge balloons. Waaaay to hot of a temp!
My grandmother used to do up this recipe for all the grandchildren. We loved decorating them and hanging them on the Christmas tree. She baked them at 200 degrees for about 2 hours, checking them every half hour to make sure they weren’t turning brown. To not get puffy ones, she set another cookie sheet on top of the ornaments before baking. Be sure and use parchment between cookie sheet and ornaments. It keeps them flat and they turn out very well. What a wonderful memory. This year I’m making them with my grandchildren and great-grandchildren!! Oh, and make sure you knead it very well, adding a little more water if needed. The kneading helps to keep it from cracking while baking. Have fun!!!
I used to make this for my kids when they were little. My granddaughter and I are going to mix this up today…it’s funny to see the reviews claiming they were too sweet! LOL it’s clay not a cookie to eat!!!
really fun
To avoid the dough getting poofy when baked, poke some small holes over the top of the craft you are making. The holes do not have to be deep. I made hand prints with my two boys for Mothers day presents for their Grandmas and they loved it! I made sure to poke around the outside and inside of the prints and after baking you couldn’t even tell I had done so, and they turned out perfect.
This recipe has the exact same ingredients as the “Dough Ornament Recipe” and “Ornament Dough” recipes. My suggestions: Note that 5 cups of dough is a lot! I halved the recipe and still had a lot more than I needed. You might as well make a small amount, it is easy to mix up more later if you want. Keep the dough in a bowl covered with a damp dishtowel when you are not working with it. You might find adding a small amount of additional water to the piece you are working with helping. The longer you knead the dough, the better. I tried making 3-D bird ornaments but they ended up cracking as the outside dries long before the inside can. I made flat ones as well and that seems the only way to go. I cooked them at 200 * F (it took several hours) and avoided puffing problems. I submitted photos of my finished product, see additional comments on the one of the birds hanging in the tree. One last thing– these are fragile! I broke off two of the tails– but superglue works to put them back together.
My kids loved decorating these for the christmas tree.
I made this recipe while teaching a class of young chefs (5-11 yr olds). It was very easy and the consistency turned out excellent for playing with. At home my daughters did bake their own creations at 200 deg. for about 2 hours. Afterward we painted them and hung them for decoration. This was a great recipe for the class because the kids were able to prepare it, play with it, and then bake it at home.
Yum! Everyone said these were the best sugar cookies they ever tasted! A little too sweet for my taste though..however, I will never make sugar cookies another way again! Thanks! PS you should give it a more appealing name..
I am so glad to find this recipe my mom has always made this for me as a child its so nice to have it now for my kids
This is a fun recipe to make with kids. However, you definitely need to add more water than the recipe states. Also, you might want to bake at a lower temperature than the recipe states — 350 degrees causes a lot of browning and the ornaments do not stay flat.