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Halloween Spider Bread

Looking for fun healthy appetizer ideas for your kids Halloween party?
This cute Halloween Spider Bread makes a great savoury addition to your spooky themed table display.
Easier than you think and kids and adults both enjoy tearing him up bit by bit and dipping the delicious bread into the hole in his back, filled with your chosen dip?
Prep Time30 minutes
Active Time25 minutes
Proofing1 hour
Total Time1 hour 55 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Party, Sharing, Side Dish
Cuisine: British
Keyword: Bread, bread shapes, bread spider, children, cute, fun bread, Halloween, halloween bread, healthy, kids, parmesan, party food, Sharing bread
Yield: 12 people
Calories: 301kcal
Author: Luke and Kay - Flawless Food

Ingredients

  • 14 grams yeast 2 x 7g packets
  • 500 ml water warm
  • 2 tablespoon sugar either caster or granulated
  • 60 ml olive oil
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • 1 tablespoon basil dried
  • 1 tablespoon oregano dried
  • 2 teaspoon garlic powder
  • 45 grams Parmigiano Reggiano
  • 750 grams Strong Bread flour
  • 1 egg Whisked & mixed with 1 teaspoon of water for eggwash

To decorate

  • 1 teaspoon poppy seeds (optional sprinkle
  • 2 Edible eyes You can use fondant or olives instead?
  • 2 Fangs Use fondant dipped in red colouring or red peppers?

Your choice of dip we used our Homemade BBQ Sauce

Instructions

  • Place the yeast, warm water and white sugar into a bowl and mix together, set to one side for 5 mins.
    Yeast and warm water being poured into a silver mixing bowl
  • Stir in the olive oil, salt, herbs, garlic powder, cheese, 375 grams of the flour into the yeast mixture
    Olive oil,mixed herbs,garlic powder and Parmesan cheese in a silver mixing bowl
  • Once mixed together gradually mix the other 375 grams of flour to the mixture and form your dough ball
    Bread flour added to the herb mixture in a silver mixing bowl
  • Knead the bread dough ball for 10 mins until its smooth and elasticity
    kneading garlic & cheese bread mix
  • Place in an oiled bowl, turn the dough ball over to cover it with oil and cover the bowl with a damp towel, leave to rise for 1 hr
    leaving bread dough to rise for 1 hr in a silver bowl and a damp towel going over the top
  • Preheat the oven to 180°c Fan / 200°C/ 400° f / gas mark 6 whilst you shape the spider
    Once the bread has doubled in size, place it down on a flat surface and push down on the bread to release any excess air.
    Cut into half, then one of the halves in half again. You should have 3 dough pieces of dough (see image)
    Garlic & cheese herb bread mix cut into three quarters to make our Halloween Spider Bread
  • Roll the largest and one of the smaller dough into a ball. Place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
    This is the spiders head and body, leave a small gap for the legs to fit in between.
    Garlic & cheese herb dough shaped to be spider head and body for the spider bread
  • Divide the last dough ball into 4 pieces and roll into long thin sausage shapes. They will try to shrink whilst rolling, but can be stretched in the next step.
    Shaping garlic & cheese herb dough into legs for the Halloween spider bread
  • Place the four leg strips centrally between the head and body.
    Point 4 up either side of the head.
    Point the remaining 4 down eithwe side of his body
    Garlic & cheese herb dough shaped to Halloween Spider bread
  • Brush Egg wash over all exposed areas of the spider.
    Coating spider bread with egg before baking in the oven
  • (optional) Sprinkle with poppy seeds
    Bake in the oven for 25-30 mins, watch him grow and get darker!
    Spider Bread sprinkled with Poppy Seeds
  • Leave to cool for at least 15 minutes, then cut a hole in the spiders back big enough to fit a dipping dish in.
    Cutting a hole in spider bread back for dip to go into.
  • Pour your chosen dip in the dish, we used our Homemade BBQ Sauce.
    BBQ sauce poured in back of Halloween Spider Bread.
  • Animate your spider, we used fondant icing, dipped in red food colouring to create fangs and some edible eyes.
    Halloween Spider Bread on a wooden chopping board

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Nutrition

Calories: 301kcal | Carbohydrates: 51g | Protein: 8g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 3mg | Sodium: 646mg | Potassium: 87mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 48IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 66mg | Iron: 3mg