How to Make Spider Rolls

Making rolls for dinner? Is Halloween around the corner? Let's spice the common dinner roll up a little bit, and make the table squeal in frightful delight!

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Dinner rolls, in dough format
• Your hands
• egg wash
• poppyseeds or other dark seed seasoning
• baking sheet

1. Okay, so what kind of dinner roll are you supposed to use? You want a roll that comes in dough format, like, the Grands canned biscuits (the butter flavor is really good). Why? Because you are going to be shaping the dough into the shapes of spiders, so you want the biscuits or rolls flexible enough to deal with the manhadling.

2. Follow the directions for the rolls and preheat the oven. Separate the rolls out according to their preportioned cuts, and set four to the side - this is assuming the can is an eight roll count. You want to end up with an even number of heads and bodies.

3. Take the first four, and roll them gently in your palm until their round in shape. This will be the body of the spider.
   
   Take the other four rolls, and one at a time, cut them into two pieces, one third and two thirds in size. The one third piece will be the head, and you can roll this into a round ball, place against the body already on the baking sheet, push firmly into the body, and leave it there.

4. Taking the two thirds piece, break it into four equal parts, and roll into thin logs about an inch to an inch and a half or so in length. These are the legs.

5. 

   Place a leg on either side of the head, making a U shape around the head to create two legs up top. Take the other two legs and place one on either side of the body, pointing downward, to create two legs on the bottom.

6. Coat each spider in a light egg wash, and sprinkle lightly with poppyseeds or another dark seed seasoning to make a speckled effect on the spider. Bake according to the directions for the dough, and serve warm!

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful when removing the spiders from the baking sheet, you dont want any pieces to break off.
• Make sure to serve the spider rolls flat
• Some people are highly allergic to poppyseeds. Before serving the rolls make sure no one has any allergies
• This is going to sound weird, but poppyseeds metabolize in the body as a drug when taking a urine test. So...if by chance you're going to be taking a drug test in the forseeable future, skip the rolls. It's not worth the hassle

[mvalora]

on 9/9/2009 Fun idea for kids

[momose]

on 9/9/2009 This is creepily adorable! Thanks, ariadnescurse, for the spider rolls recipe. My grandson will love making these. Please write some more good articles for this Halloween. *****

[mommyhen42]

on 9/9/2009 OMG... this is so totally great!

[leanan]

on 10/22/2008 How cute!!!