🕊️Ukrainian Easter Bread Doves Recipe (Holuby)
Learn how to make Ukrainian Easter Bread Doves (Holuby) with this easy to follow tutorial (with recipe) ! These cute edible ornamental doves are used to decorate Ukrainian Easter Baskets, Ukrainian Easter bread, Korovai (wedding bread) and symbolize spring.
Servings 30 doves
Calories 51kcal
Ingredients
- 1 cup boiling water
- 1 teaspoon cooking oil
- 1 teaspoon white sugar
- 1 egg
- 2 drops yellow food coloring
- 3 cups all- purpose flour
Egg Wash:
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 teaspoon water or milk
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F line a baking sheet with parchment paper
- Combine the first 5 ingredients. Add one cup flour. Mix well with a wooden spoon.
- Add another two cups flour. Knead by hand on a floured surface.
- If more flour is needed, add a little at a time. The dough should be thick, like play dough.
- Roll out the dough into snakes about the thickness of a finger; cut into 2 - 4 inch sections.
- Place one strip horizontally on your work surface; lay another strip on top like a cross
- Pull the arm of the strip beneath up and cross to the opposite side.
- Now pull the other (left) side across (left side becomes right, right side becomes left)
- Flatten and shape slightly as for wings, then use a plastic or regular knife to cut little feathers into tail
- Using the other (non-cutting side) of the knife blade, press feather impressions into wings
- Shape one end of the straight strip of dough like a head (pinch for a beak)
- Add a poppy seed or piece of a currant for eyes (I used pieces of currants- not the entire currant)
- Let rise for 5 minutes, then place the doves in a preheated oven for 10 minutes.
- Remove and brush with the beaten egg, which has been diluted with 1 teaspoon of water
- Return to the oven for another 10 minutes.
- Remove from oven. Cool for 5 minutes.
- Insert a toothpick on the bottom of each dove to enable insertion into decorative ritual breads (see photos in post).
Notes
*Note: I make mine quite large, but they can be made smaller
**Note: These directions can be copied and handed out if doing this with kids
Nutrition
Serving: 1dove | Calories: 51kcal | Carbohydrates: 10g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 1g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 11mg | Sodium: 5mg | Potassium: 17mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 16IU | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 1mg
