6 Types of Bread to Complement Your Holiday Dinner
![Grape Focaccia GRAPE FOCACCIA
Bobby Flay
Cooking Channel
Milk, Sugar, Active Dry Yeast, Allpurpose
Flour, Extravirgin
Olive Oil, Fine Sea Salt, Red
Grapes, Raw Sugar, Coarse Sea Salt, Rosemary](http://cook.fnr.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/cook/fullset/2014/3/19/0/CCBAB408-Grape-Focaccia-Recipe_s4x3.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.616.462.suffix/1409944853895.jpeg)
Matt Armendariz, 2014, Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved.
Gathering 'round the table for a big holiday dinner requires a lot of prep work, and one item tends to get overlooked in the madness of Christmas meal planning: bread. It's tempting to buy premade canned dough, but aside from the biggest problem — your being terrified when the can pops open before you're ready — it really takes down the quality of the meal. Don't settle for store-bought. Try a few of our favorite holiday bread ideas, starting with gorgeous grape-studded rosemary focaccia (pictured above).
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Matt Armendariz, 2014, Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved.
Make at least half a dozen baskets of these bad boys, because the slightly garlicky biscuits filled with melty cheese and bacon will fly off the table faster than Rudolph leading the sled.
![ALTON_BROWN_CREAMED_CORNBREAD_H.jpg](http://cook.fnr.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/cook/fullset/2013/9/3/0/FN_alton-creamed-corn-cornbread_s4x3.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.616.462.suffix/1378238787285.jpeg)
Matt Armendariz, 2013, Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved.
Break out the can of creamed corn for your secret ingredient. Baking in a cast-iron skillet gives this cornbread the ideal crunchy edges.
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Have an hour? You can make impressive, fluffy, buttery rolls to pass around, and then use them to make sandwiches out of leftovers after the big dinner.
![BUTTERY GARLIC HERB KNOTS
Kelsey Nixon
Cooking Channel
Unsalted Butter, Thyme Leaves, Rosemary Leaves, Parmesan, Garlic, Bench Flour, Kosher
Salt, Active Dry Yeast, Sugar, Olive Oil, Bread Flour](http://cook.fnr.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/cook/fullset/2011/8/16/0/CCKEL213_Buttery-Herb-Garlic-Knots_s4x3.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.616.462.suffix/1416846901030.jpeg)
Matt Armendariz, 2014, Television Food Network, G.P. All Rights Reserved.
Made with simple pizza dough, these vampire killers may make you twist and shout at the table.
![A loaf of Brown Pumpkin Bread with one slice removed that is placed on a plain white surface](http://cook.fnr.sndimg.com/content/dam/images/cook/fullset/2012/9/24/0/GC_alton-brown-pumpkin-bread_s4x3.jpg.rend.hgtvcom.616.462.suffix/1357924554150.jpeg)
Tara Donne, Food Network
For a slightly sweeter bread option, serve warm, cinnamon-spiced pumpkin bread. It doubles up on the gourd with shredded fresh pumpkin and pumpkin seeds .
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