Christmas tree spinach dip breadsticks

January 25, 2022 Post a Comment

In today's post: Learn how to plough refrigerated dough into an adorable Christmas tree with these spinach dipped stuffed breadsticks! And be sure to check out the football version for game solar day and the sweet nutella version for Valentine'southward Twenty-four hour period!

As yous know, my favorite part nearly any vacation (after the meaningful stuff like family and togetherness, etc.) is the food. Really, my favorite part of any given day but might be the food, simply hey, to each her own. The Christmas season is especially fun because there are all sorts of opportunities for delicious little snacks that you mostly don't eat all year long. I mean, we've already gone through more cheeseballs in the past three weeks than we do for the entire rest of the year, and don't even get me started on Lil' Smokies! Anyway, I wanted to make a festive, but still like shooting fish in a barrel, vacation snack you could take to any party, so I came up with these Christmas tree spinach dip breadsticks.

They starting time with a refrigerated pizza crust, the kind that comes in a tube, so they're easy to brand and take merely over half an hour start to finish. And look how cute they turn out!

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How to brand Christmas tree spinach dip breadsticks

These Christmas tree breadsticks are the perfect party appetizer for the holidays! They're filled with spinach dip and topped with garlic butter.

12 oz Frozen chopped spinach thawed and squeezed dry
half-dozen oz foam cheese softened
2 cloves garlic, minced
1/ii teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/iv teaspoon chili pulverisation
1/4 teaspoon pepper
ane teaspoon Italian seasoning
one/two cup grated parmesan cheese
1 cup grated cheddar OR mozzarella cheese
1 tube refrigerated thin crust pizza crust
2 tablespoons butter
one/ii teaspoon Italian seasoning
ane/2 teaspoon garlic salt

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
In a bowl, crush together the spinach and cream cheese.
Add garlic, common salt, onion powder, chili powder, pepper, and Italian seasoning and beat out to combine.
Add parmesan cheese and i/2 of the cheddar or mozzarella cheese and beat to combine. (The other half of the cheddar or mozzarella cheese will be sprinkled over the filling when you shape the Christmas tree.)
Shape into Christmas tree as directed in the post.
Bake for about 22 minutes until quite gilded dark-brown on height and cooked through on the bottom.
Cook butter and stir in garlic salt and seasoning, then brush over breadsticks.
Serve warm.

Course: Appetizer, Bread

Cuisine: American

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You'll start past mixing upward the spinach dip ingredients. Make sure to thaw the frozen spinach (or simply defrost it in the microwave) and clasp it in handfuls to get nigh of the moisture out. Then use a hand or stand mixer to mix information technology with the softened foam cheese, garlic, seasonings, and cheeses.

Christmas Tree Breadsticks VIDEO

Adjacent, you can lookout man this video to come across how I shape the Christmas tree breadsticks. Written instructions follow:

Unroll the pizza crust on a piece of parchment newspaper. I used the "sparse" style pizza crust. Using a pizza slicer, cut the chaff equally shown beneath:

This gives you ane large triangle and 2 smaller ones. Transfer the smaller triangles to a 2d slice of parchment paper, placing the long side edges together, to make some other large triangle. The dough will stretch out a petty as y'all move it around – no biggie, just gently tug it into the shape you want, pressing the two halves together in the middle. This volition be the base of the breadsticks. I also gave the base of operations a short trivial torso.

Spread the spinach dip over the base.

Sprinkle on the remaining cheese, and then top with the first triangle of dough. You'll probable have to tug at the dough a trivial scrap to brand sure information technology completely covers the base of operations triangle.

Using a pizza cutter, cutting slices from the middle to each edge about every inch downward the triangle equally shown below. Don't slice all the way across; leave nearly an inch downwardly the middle of the tree intact.

Grab each "slice" and twist it to form a tree shape, every bit shown below. For the top piece that's very short you'll simply give it a half twist; every bit you go further down the tree and hit longer slices you'll requite them ii or three full twists.

Bake at 400 degrees for about 22 minutes until the bottom is completely cooked through. The pinnacle is going to get nice and browned, but make certain to bank check that the bottom is cooked through. If you are cooking on a heavy cookie sail, like I did, you may want to cook this on the lower rack in your oven.

In one case out of the oven you lot can move the breadsticks onto a pretty wood cutting board or charcuterie board for serving. Be sure to brush the breadsticks with melted butter, garlic salt, and seasonings.

Then serve it up while it's nevertheless warm. Everyone tin tear off a breadstick or two to enjoy.

Answers to questions almost the recipe

And so I've had lots of questions about this recipe, and I'll effort to answer them all right here!

Q: Can I make this in advance and rewarm at the party I'g taking it to?

A: I'grand sure you can, although I take non done so. This is a lot like a pizza, and similar pizzas will gustatory modality best directly out of the oven, so your best selection may exist to shape it right before you leave for the party and so bake it once yous get at that place. However, that's non e'er an pick. So you're next all-time bet would be to bake right before you leave and then wrap it in foil and just serve information technology warm-ish (still tastes only fine!) or pop it in the oven for just a few minutes to heat through at the party. Some readers have suggested blistering on a blistering stone and transporting on the warm stone to continue information technology hot.

Q: Can I shape this in advance and refrigerate or freeze until fourth dimension to bake?

A: Y'all can certainly requite it a try, merely I wouldn't recommend it. The refrigerated pizza dough from a tube that I used may not hold upwardly well to sitting in the refrigerator for a few hours before blistering.

Q: Tin I utilise a different type of dough? Homemade dough?

A: Of course! You'll just take to accommodate your blistering method a fleck. Bootleg pizza dough should work beautifully – simply let it ascent a fleck before shaping and and so picket it while baking as the bake time volition vary a bit with unlike dough recipes. You could also employ frozen Rhodes bread dough: you lot'll just demand to thaw it and allow it to rise before shaping.

Q: I tin can't notice the "thin" pizza crust, just regular. Can I use that?

A: Sure! Either you tin sprinkle it with flour and gently gyre it into a bit larger rectangle to brainstorm with, or yous can simply make a tree that's slightly smaller and a little thicker.

Q: I hate spinach. Tin can I apply a different filling?

A: Admittedly! I made a pretty tear&share bread using a pesto filling in this postal service, which was succulent! Other readers have recommended a buffalo chicken filling, which as well sounds yummy. Just avoid really runny fillings every bit they may leak out likewise much and make a mess.

Q: Can I use store-bought spinach dip instead of your recipe?

A: Yep, that should work just fine. The simply potential consequence is if your prepared dip is very runny – my recipe is quite thick to make sure it doesn't leak out while blistering.

Q: Can I use crescent roll dough, phyllo dough, or puff pastry instead of the pizza dough?

A: I haven't tried any of these options so I can't say for sure, but I'yard thinking it would work just fine with whatsoever of them! Only watch the melt time (and check some of the comments – readers are sharing different things they've tried).