Skeleton Bone Bread Rolls
For when you want your dinner rolls to be a bone chilling delight. These skeleton bone bread rolls are super soft and filled with a swirl of garlic, herbs and cheese.
Why you will love this recipe
- These can turn a simple meal into a spooky, cute Halloween treat.
- They taste great! Super soft buns, loaded with garlic, herbs and cheese. You cant go wrong here.
- They are a savory Halloween food! Halloween can be overloaded with sweets and desserts so I really like having some easy, savory recipes on hand for the spooky season too.
- These are perfect for parties and sharing with family and friends. You can double the recipe for a crowd, prepare these ahead of time and they will pair well with whatever else is on your party table.
How to serve your skeleton bone bread rolls
These tasty rolls are such a fun addition to any meal, and with Halloween fast approaching I like to add a little spookiness to as many meals as I can. These rolls are the perfect addition to do that!
Serve these up as a side dish with delicious spooky skull pizza, roasted tomato soup or some pumpkin pasta!
These bone bread rolls even work well as a bun for filling with your favourite sandwich or burger filling.
These would be absolutely adorable packed into lunch boxed as ham and cheese sandwiches for Halloween.
Ingredients and substitutions
Butter – I always use salted butter, its cheaper and its what I have on hand 99% of the time. If you use unsalted, then add about half a teaspoon of salt to compensate.
Yeast – Instant yeast is what I use most of the time but regular active yeast is fine too.
Sugar – I use icing sugar for these as it is much lighter and finer than regular granulated sugar. This helps keep the dough light and fluffy and it doesn’t change the taste. You can substitute this for regular granulated sugar or 3 tablespoons of honey if you do not have icing sugar on hand.
Flour – I use regular plain white baking flour. If you would rather use a high grade flour then feel free to. You can even mix and match with a little bit of whole meal flour if you like. If you do then you may just want to add an extra tablespoon of milk to keep these soft.
Cornflour – This is added to make the buns have a finer, softer crumb. You can switch it out for arrowroot or just use regular flour if you don’t have any on hand.
Garlic, herbs and cheese – Once you have tried this as a garlic filled bone bread roll, feel free to substitute these out for whatever spices and flavoring you like. You can even switch things up and turn these into cinnamon roll bones if you want a sweeter option!
Can you make these bone bread rolls in advance
Absolutely ! These are OK to make the day ahead as they are quite a soft bread. Store them in an airtight container in a cool dry place for up to 3 days.
You can also freeze the dough and make these just before serving. To do this you will need to prepare your rolls and place them in the freezer as soon as they are shaped. Freeze them on a baking tray and transfer them to an airtight container or snap lock bag to store. When you want to bake them you can place them onto a lined baking tray at room temperature. Allow them to defrost fully and rise to double the size (approx 3 hours depending on the weather). Once they are defrosted and have risen you can bake and serve them.
Skeleton Bone Bread Rolls
Ingredients
Method
- In a large bowl combine butter, milk, and yeast. Set aside for 10 minutes to allow the yeast to activate.
- Add the sugar and egg to your bowl and mix through.
- Add half of your flour and cornflour and mix together until well combined before adding in the remaining flour and mix well.
- Turn your dough out onto your bench top and knead for a minute or two, until it forms a smooth dough ball.
- Pour the oil into a clean bowl before placing your dough it the centre. Cover the surface of the dough with the oil and make deep indents into the dough using your fingertips. Set dough in a warm place to rise for 1 hour, or until doubled in size
- Knock down the dough and split into 6 evenly sized portions.
- Roll each section out into a long flat rectangle Repeat until all of the
- Mix together the butter, garlic and herbs. Brush this over your rolled out dough and then add a light sprinkling of cheese down the centre length of your rectangles.
- Next shape your bones. To do this roll your rectangles tightly into a long snake shape.
- Use kitchen scissors or a knife to split both of the ends of the dough in half about 7-8 cm deep into the dough. Take each end and roll outwards to form the shape of the bone.
- Place your shaped bone breads onto a lined baking tray and leave to rise in a warm place for about 45 minutes or until they have doubled in size.
- Once risen brush them well with a little bit of extra milk.
- Place into a preheated oven and cook at 160 degrees for 25 minutes or until fully baked through.
- Brush a little bit of butter on top of your rolls as soon as they some out of the oven.
- Serve warm.
Notes
Use these to make burgers, sandwiches etc
Thank you so much for taking the time to read through my Skeleton Bone Bread Rolls recipe. I hope you enjoy trying this out for yourself. Please feel free to add any questions or comments below. I am happy to help out wherever possible and I would love to hear how this recipe worked out for you.
