Day of the Dead Spiderbread by http://www.vegcooking.com
Category: Breads

This recipe is suitable for a: vegetarian/vegan diet.


Ingredients:
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½ cup (100g) margarine, softened
4 Tbsp. sugar ½ cup (100g) plus 2 Tbsp. 930ml) unbleached all-purpose flour
4 Tbsp. cornmeal
½ tsp. cinnamon
Pinch salt
Dash almond extract
1 oz. (25g) (1 square) semisweet chocolate


Instructions:
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Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (170 degrees C/Gas Mark 3). Cream the margarine and sugar together in a large bowl. Stir in the flour, cornmeal, cinnamon, salt and almond extract. Pat the dough into an 8-inch pie pan. Bake for 30 minutes, or until golden. With a knife, score the shortbread into 8 sections while it is still hot. When the shortbread is completely cool, place the chocolate in a plastic zipper-style sandwich bag. Close the bag tightly and microwave on high for 1 minute. Knead the bag until the chocolate is completely melted. Tightly fold down the top of the bag and snip a tiny piece (about 1/16 inch) off one bottom corner. Drizzle the chocolate over the shortbread in a spider web pattern (add a spooky spider, too, if you wish). Makes 8 servings.


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This seems interesting...and easy. I wonder how it would turn out if I used whole wheat flour instead....

I can't wait to make this! I saw the recipe last year and never got around to making it. Glad it popped up again or I may have forgotten.

I'm no professional cook (infact, I'm not very good at all) but I would guess that using whole wheat flour would probably just change the texture a little. But unless you've had it before, using the unbleached all-purpose, how would you know the difference? :)

I always just use whole wheat instead of what the recipe calls for because that's all that's ever in my house besides low quality, overly processed & bleached all-purpose... and everything always comes out fine.

This sounds yummy even without the chocolate topping!

Cool. It figures that I have all of the ingredients besides the cornmeal. If you make it, please let me know how it turns out.