Dead Mans Dip

How-to: Dead Man's Dip
Follow this step-by-step instructional for the season's most devilish dish
Want to really impress your guests at this year's Halloween party? Follow our easy directions for a brilliant bread coffin.


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Step 1:
Using a serrated knife, horizontally slice through top third of bread loaf, keeping top of bread attached along the long side opposite you; this will be the coffin lid.


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Step 2:
Carefully raise lid three-quarters open. Insert a skewer through bread top at each back corner of the lid, carefully threading each skewer through the bottom part of the loaf. This will keep lid open.


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Step 3:
Using kitchen shears, snip top of skewers flush with bread lid.


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Step 4:
Following the contours of the loaf, and starting 12 in. in from loaf edges, score a rectangle in cut surface of bread bottom with a small knife.


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Step 5:
Carefully discard bread from inside the rectangle, leaving a 12-in. bread wall on all sides and a hollow into which to put the dip.


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Step 6:
Hollow out bread from coffin lid.


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Step 7:
Insert 3 or 4 toothpicks into breadstick along one length


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Step 8:
Attach breadstick handle to front of coffin.


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Step 9:
Take the prepared dip (Dead Man's Dip Recipe) and carefully spoon half the mixture into the coffin. For added effect, take a clean, plastic skeleton and place on top of dip. Spoon remaining dip on top of the body of the skeleton and serve.


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