Happy Halloween, delicious bread stick snakes excellent idea for your party table.
Today is Halloween, my kids are excited too much to celebrate Halloween, they were already planning for which costumes they are going to wear for months. How to decorate their little pumpkin? This year they got two days to wear their Halloween costumes
. Yesterday in our neighborhood there was a Halloween party, it was a small gathering with food, fun and games. My kids thoroughly enjoyed as they played lots of games and my son even enjoyed dancing.
Because of their enthusiasm towards Halloween I too started making treats. This “Bread Stick Snakes” is one of them. I made chocolate Fig mice too.
I tried this Bread sticks snake from Country living magazine. I tried twice, the first time using homemade pizza dough. I was thinking it will be similar to bread stick bone using homemade dough which I had made earlier.
I think I did too much curling and resulted in snakes that were too curly. And they turned out to be snakes that are bulky looking and getting too much to eat.
So decide to make it the second time using store-bought pizza dough as original recipe said.
I would love to make simple treats for kids without loaded sugar as they are getting a sugar overload with candy which they collect during trick-o-treat.
My kids like bread sticks especially those we get from Pizza Hut, so bread sticks are safe bet so decide to try them. I like to serve them with marinara sauce instead of soup.
Because my daughter likes to dip in marinara and then eat it, she told me mama I am going to eat tail of the snake and then head. It was really funny.
Points to remember while making the bread stick snakes?
It is really simple to make, first cut the refrigerated pizza dough into 2 inch slices of 12 pieces
Then try to roll them onto chop stick, make sure to make less twist otherwise your snake will too curly that is what I learned from my mistakes. Also baking time is different from the recipe so watch for your oven as they are different. Kids will enjoy these spooky cute treat.
How to make Bread Sticks Snakes ?
First unroll the pizza dough
Cut it into strips like this
Press one end of the stick and flaten it into shape of snake head
Black olives for eyes.
After baking the bread stick snakes
Bread sticks Snakes
Ingredients
- 13.8 oz refrigerated pizza dough
- 1-2 black olives for eyes
- 12 red chili pepper
- ¼ cup poppy seeds
- ¼ cup white sesame seeds
- ¼ cup olive oil
- Extra flour for dusting
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 350F
- Unroll 1 (13.8-oz.) tube refrigerated pizza dough;
- cut into 12 strips of 2 inch pieces on the long side and roll each into 12-inch ropes,
- tapering one end (for tail) and flattening the other end (for head).
- Wrap each rope in a spiral around a greased 10 ½-inch chopstick brushed with olive oil.
- Brush with olive oil and sprinkle body with poppy seeds and tails with sesame seeds.
- Cut black olives into small triangles and place on the head of each snake to make the eyes.
- Bake on two parchment paper-lined baking sheets at 350°F until golden brown, 11-15 minutes.
- Cool 3 minutes , before carefully removing chopsticks.
- While still warm, use a toothpick or knife tip to carefully thread dried chiles (cut into tongues) into the tip of the flat end of each snake to make the tongue.
- Serve with marinara sauce.
Nutrition
This is Swathi ( Dr. Ambujom Saraswathy Ph.D) from Zesty South Indian Kitchen who loves to explore cuisines from all over the world. Whenever possible I try to to give an Indian touch to several of the world cuisine, and has weakness for freshly baked bread. All the recipes you see here are created by me and approved after taste-test by my family.
Allyssa says
This is really easy to make and tasted super delicious! Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe! Will surely have this again, highly recommended!
beena says
Looks so good and scary.
Dawn @ Words Of Deliciousness says
I love these bread snakes. They are super cute. I am sure my grandkids would love these!!!
Swathi says
Thanks Dawn yes they are cute kids love it.
Elizabeth says
This is such a great idea, and a quick and easy way to do it too using ready made pizza dough. My kids would love this any time of year!
Swathi says
Yes I tried with homemade dough that doesn't work.
Christina | Christina's Cucina says
So much better than store-bought treats! Love these!
Amanda Mason says
Super fun idea and I love the other posts your listed showing other holiday ideas for Halloween! Thanks for posting this! Looks fantastic and it sounds like must try!
Swathi says
Give it a try.
Sandhya Ramakrishnan says
These snakes are so cute and the kids will love this for sure! I love how you have wrapped them to resemble actual snakes!
Platter Talk says
Great idea for kids at Halloween time. Mine would love them w/garlic and tomato sauce.
Swathi says
Yes they will be delicious with garlic tomato sauce.
Hema says
Bread stick snakes, they sort of look scary and cute at the same time, nice idea Swathi..
Lynda Hardy says
I love the snake breadsticks! I will definitely tuck this away to remember for next year!
veena says
Bread stick looks so scary perfect for the season
babitha says
they really look scary swathi