Thanksgiving Bread Cornucopia!

I have always wanted to try and make a cornucopia with Rhodes dough.  I bought a 3-foot long cornucopia at a bakery a couple of years ago and it ended up finding a place on everyone's head at Thanksgiving, rather than as a centerpiece.  We all looked like Dr. Suess characters.  In the spirit of that original cornucopia, I decided to try to make one last night. 

Step one: Make a form out of tinfoil and stuff it with tinfoil.  Spray it excessively with cooking spray. Leave it sitting on the counter for 2 hours while you go play and everyone can wonder what it is, but no one has the guts to ask.

Step Two:  Take thawed rolls and roll them out long and skinny.  This picture is three rolls attached together.  I found it better to do one or two at a time after this attempt. 

Step Three:  Start wrapping around the form.  This is a very awkward and difficult process.

Step four:  Skip whatever step four is.

Step five:  Have everyone join in the rolling. 

Eventually it will look like this.  Hopefully, yours will be more even.  I had little hands rolling rolls all sorts of sizes.

Step six:  I ran out of rolls, so the last two I twisted and formed a more finished edge.  You could braid it if you want. 

Step seven:  Cover and wait for it to rise (about 20-25 minutes), or do as I did, forget to cover it and have husband insist on taking you out to dinner that moment and leave it on the counter for 40 minutes.  Oops.

Step eight: Bake at 325 for 18 minutes.

Step nine:  Wish that you had done things tighter or used an egg/water wash to make things more sticky and formed on the edge.

Step ten:  Remove tinfoil and be proud that you have created a Beluga whale bread sculpture and not a cornucopia.

I keep thinking of that whale in Pinocchio.

Step eleven:  Stuff it with fruit to show off how much it can hold.

Step twelve:  You can fill it with your rolls for Thanksgiving, nuts, or fruit.  Happy Thanksgiving!!