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snake breadsticks served with a pot of red chilli sauce for dipping
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Snake Breadsticks - Party Food Halloween or Harry Potter

These Spooky Snake Breadsticks make a perfect addition to your Halloween Party Food table. A great healthy appetiser idea to surprise the kids and grown-ups alike.
Step by step recipe to make your own breadsticks, how to shape and decorate them into snakes. Serve with your choice of sauce to dip your serpent into.
Also great for Harry Potter or reptile / zoo themed party food.
Prep Time10 minutes
Active Time20 minutes
Proofing Time1 hour
Total Time1 hour 30 minutes
Course: Appetizer, Party, Sharing, Starter
Cuisine: American, British
Keyword: breadstick snakes, food ideas, Halloween, Harry potter party theme food, kids healthy, party food, reptile theme food, snake bread, zoo theme
Yield: 12 Snakes
Calories: 184kcal
Author: Luke and Kay - Flawless Food

Equipment

Ingredients

Breadsticks

  • 5 grams (1 tsp) Dried Active Yeast 1x sachet
  • 170 ml (⅔ cup) Warm Water
  • 4 tablespoon Olive Oil
  • 330 grams (2 ⅔ cup) Plain Flour
  • 1 teaspoon Salt

Decoration, this is what we used but you can use whatever you like?

  • 2 Olives, chopped small for the eyes
  • ⅓ Orange Pepper (bell pepper) for the tongue
  • 6 drops Extra strong food colour gel we used green
  • 3 tablespoon water to mix food colour with
  • 1 tablespoon sesame or nigella seeds optional

Instructions

  • Mix warm water with yeast, stir together until it starts to bubble up, then add the olive oil.
    5 grams (1 tsp) Dried Active Yeast, 170 ml (⅔ cup) Warm Water, 4 tbsp Olive Oil
    Warm water, yeast, olive oil mixed together in a clear glass mixing bowl
  • Sieve the flour and then add the salt.
    330 grams (2 ⅔ cup) Plain Flour, 1 tsp Salt
    Sieving plain flour into a glass mixing bowl
  • Using a hand mixer with dough hook mix on slow until combined, then increase speed to medium speed for 5 minutes.
    If kneading by hand will take 10 minutes
    mixing the breadstick mixture with an electric hand mixer with dough hook attachment
  • Cover the dough in a bowl with cling film and let prove for 1 hr / until the dough has doubled in size.
    dough mixture in a glass bowl covered with a sheet of cling film
  • Place flour on a clean surface, give the dough a gently knead adding more flour if needed to remove stickiness.
    Kneading the dough with flour by hands
  • Weigh out and work with 50 gram pieces of dough at a time.
    A lump of dough mixture on a set of scales weighing in at 50 grams
  • Roll into a snake shape, thin one end for the tail and thicker the other end for the head
    rolling out the the dough mixture into a snake shape
  • Starting from the head end. Wrap the dough snake shape around a wooden kebab stick and place on a baking tray lined with parchment paper.
    Wrapping the snake figure dough around a wooden stick
  • Allow space between snakes on a tray. Shape the head before placing in the oven. Cook on 200°C fan/ 220°C/ 425°/ Gas mark 7 F for 15 minutes
    snake breadsticks wrapped around sticks on a baking tray ready to be cooked
  • Mix together water and green food colouring for painting the snakes
    3 tbsp water, 6 drops Extra strong food colour gel
    Mixing the green colouring with water in a white pot
  • Remove snakes and brush over the food colouring mixture, add seeds now if wanted? Then place back in the oven for a further 5 mins.
    1 tbsp sesame or nigella seeds
    Coating the snakes with green colouring using a black brush
  • Cut up black olive into small pieces for the snake eyes
    2 Olives, chopped small
    Cutting up small bits of black olive to make eyes for the snake bread sticks
  • Use an orange/ red pepper cut out the snake tongues
    ⅓ Orange Pepper (bell pepper)
    Making a snake tongues out of orange pepper with a silver knife
  • Once the snakes have cooled down, twist the kebab stick 360°. Then continue to twist as you pull out slowly from the snakes
    Twisting the stick away from the cooked breadsticks
  • Use the sharp end of a stick to poke a hole for the eyes and mouth, and place the olives for eyes and peppers for tongues into each snake
    Placing the the orange tongues in the snake heads
  • Serve with a dip and enjoy!!
    Dipping the breadstick into the chilli sauce in a white pot

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Nutrition

Calories: 184kcal | Carbohydrates: 25g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 7g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 235mg | Potassium: 42mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Calcium: 5mg | Iron: 2mg