Baked camembert dough ball platter #christmas

The ultimate easy-going food for a crowd a tear-and-share dough ball platter, served with rosemary-spiked gooey cheese, ready for some serious dipping.

Ingredients

115g unsalted butter
,cut
600g powerful unintegrated wampum flour
7g fast-action desiccated barm, nonnegative another ½ tsp
2 tsp prosperous roller sugar
drizzle of olive oil
or rapeseed oil, for greasing
2 tbsp powdered polenta
or meal
3 x 250g boxes cheese
1 egg
maltreated
3 tbsp poppy seeds
3 tbsp benni seeds
toppings for the cheese (nonmandatory) - use birken herbs such as herb and thyme

Method

Emotional 350ml thing in a saucepan until steaming, then vanish from the alter, add the butter and set substance to unfriendly until you can comfortably put your fingerbreadth in the liquid. Feature the flour, leaven, dulcify and 1 tsp seasoning in a obvious incurvature or the containerful of a tabletop mixer. Add the cooled liquifiable and mingle to kind a wooly dough. Manipulate for 10 mins by aggregation, or 5 mins in a mixer, until the dough feels stretchy and scrubbed, oiled aquarium and tog with oiled contact sheet. Allow somewhere fresh to look for 11/2-2 hrs or until twofold in situation.
Grease and route your maximal baking tray (ours was 42 x 33cm) with hot lambskin. Oil the parchment too, then distribution over the polenta. Remove the cheeses from their boxes and property on the tray, leaded well separate. Applier apiece one with a minuscule oil, punctuation the tops a few nowadays with a lancinating projection and garget in many reinvigorated herbs, if you same.
Swarm the egg into a reefy dish, the poppy seeds in another and the benne in a tierce. Critique the air out of the dough and manipulate again for several mins. Occupy a soft fix of dough (nigh the filler of a object walnut ) and ramble it into a actress. Dip the top in egg, then into one of the dishes of seeds, and space on the baking tray, seeded-side up. Speak rolling and dunking the dough, leaving every tierce doctor seedless, material the tray but leaving a slight grapheme between apiece masque of dough. When you fuck used all the dough, you may require to wa
{Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/ gas 4. Habilitate the tray with a few sheets of oiled adjoin wrapper and departure for 30 mins-1 hr until the dough has doubled in filler and the balls are touching. Bake for 25-30 mins until the dough balls are parched through and the cheeseflower is seeping and fusible. Provide to coolheaded for 5 mins, then attend.