Free Bread Cornucopia Recipes for Thanksgiving

Looking for something different for decorating your home for Thanksgiving? A bread cornucopia can be that one thing that is different from all the other decorations for this time of year. The bread cornucopias are easy to make and can take just a few hours of your afternoon depending on which method you choose to use.

What else can you do with the bread cornucopias?

Mantle. If you have a wide enough mantle, you can place the cornucopia on it and fill with fall flowers. This would make a nice Earthy piece of decor for you living room, den, or bedroom.

Hall or living room tables. If you plan to use it on one of these tables, you can make your own fall sachets filled with cloves, dried lemons and oranges, cinnamon sticks, and other fall spices. This will fill your home with an aromatic scent that is all natural.

Bird feeder. Since this is made from the same style of breads often feed to ducks and geese, fill the inside with bird feed and hang in a tree. Sure the squirrels may help themselves to the bird feed and bread, but it is more natural and festive for your outside friends too.

Candy holder. Even with Halloween coming before Thanksgiving, a bread cornucopia can be made for holding your trick-or-treat candy or candy for the family.

Trick or Treat bag. This would be a different type of carrier for your kids candy on Halloween night. The downside of it could be the rain or dampness on Halloween if you live in an area that is prone to rain on Halloween.

What can you fill the bread cornucopias with for your dining room table?

Plastic gourds, pumpkins, and fall vegetables. These can be bought at any craft store, Wal-Mart, Target, and some grocery stores. These items will be in the fall or Thanksgiving sections.

Rolls. Depending on the type of rolls you will be serving for your Thanksgiving dinner will determine what you are placing in there.

Cookies. You could also make a second bread cornucopia for a dessert table and fill with cookies in a Thanksgiving theme. Pillsbury often has the tube or precut Thanksgiving cookies you can bake yourself. If you find you may not have time for even those, Thanksgiving or fall prebaked cookies can be used.

Unshelled nuts. Bags or loose unshelled nuts can be bought to fill your cornucopia with. They can also be used to fill around the shell for further decorating of your table.

Bread Cornucopia Recipes for Thanksgiving

There are three different recipes listed below for making a bread cornucopia for Thanksgiving. Each uses different types of breads to make the baskets. Depending on how much time and money you want to spend on this project may determine which one to use.

Cornucpia

This bread cornucopia version uses rolls of bread sticks that can be bought at any grocery store. Since this is made for a decoration for Thanksgiving, the cheap store brand can be used.

In the picture on the link for the recipe, it shows vegetables lining the platter around the cornucopia.

Bread Cornucopia

This bread cornucopia uses homemade bread dough. The form for the cornucopia for baking uses an aluminum foil roasting pan and foil.

The person who made this cornucopia from bread includes pictures of the process and ones of the finish product using fall foods. In the comments section Juggling Frogs also gives tips for what she did with the bread cornucopia for when she makes it several days before Thanksgiving.

How to Make a Bread Cornucopia for Thanksgiving

Jessica show how to make a bread cornucopia in this video. She uses frozen bread loaves. These are the ones you can find in the freezer section at the grocery store that are unbaked.

The ingredients are listed below the video. She preheated the oven at 500 degrees and turned the oven down to 450 degrees and baked until golden brown.