This Halloween, I decided to make a stuffed pull apart bread super creepy. The filling is made with cream cheese, Turkey Bacon, hot Sauce, Olives & Parsley. The super airy yeast dough is divided and stuffed with the filling. Normally this makes a great party appetizer, but for Halloween it got a green egg wash and a creepy eye made with little Quail eggs.

If you don’t want to use Quail Eggs (they can be a pain to peel), you can use anything else that will hold up to heat.

Creepy Cheesy Eyes

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Ingredients Method

Ingredients
  

Filling
  • 450 gms Cream Cheese
  • 1 tbsp hot Sauce
  • 1/2 cup cooked and crumbled Bacon
  • 2 tbsps chopped Parsley
  • 1 tbsp chopped green Olives
  • 2 tbsps sliced green Spring Onion
Extras
  • 18 Quail Eggs boiled peeled & halves
  • Food coloring – Green & Black
  • 2 tbsps Egg white
Yeast dough
  • 2 tsps active Yeast
  • 1 tbsp Sugar
  • 1/2 cup warm Water
  • 1.5 cups warm Milk
  • 3 tbsps Butter
  • 1 tsp Baking powder
  • Salt to taste
  • 3.5 cups pre sifted all purpose Flour
  • 1 tbsp of dried Oregano optional
Non Yeast Dough
  • 1 cup Flour
  • Add 1 tsp Baking powder
  • Salt to taste
  • Pinch Oregano
  • Water as required
  • Divide the yeast dough

Method
 

  1. Warm up the cheese in the microwave and mix in all of the filling ingredients
  2. Using a mini ice cream scoop, divide and freeze
  3. Prepare the quail eggs and keep aside
  4. To prepare the yeast dough, allow the yeast to froth with the sugar and warm water
  5. Add this to your mixing bowl once it is frothy together with the warm milk and butter
  6. Add in the baking powder & salt and the flour in additions
  7. Add the oregano
  8. Once the dough forms into a ball, add it to an oiled bowl, cover and leave in a warm spot to rise
  9. In the meantime, prepare the non yeast dough by mixing those ingredients together to form a dough
  10. Divide the yeast dough once it’s doubled into 30 gm balls
  11. Cover and allow to proof for another 15 mins
  12. Remove the cheese filling from the freezer and add the flour dough around it
  13. Roll between your palms to make it round and smooth
  14. Brush with green food color mixed with egg white – optional
  15. Add a half quail on top of each egg
  16. Roll out the non yeast dough – cut out eyelid shapes and use it to secure the egg
  17. Touch up with the green color
  18. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45 mins
  19. Paint in the irises