"crabby" Bread!

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 5 rhodes frozen rolls, texas, thawed but still cold
• 1 toothpick, broken into 4 pieces
• 1 tablespoon butter, melted
• 1 egg, beaten
• paprika (optional)
• 1 pimento stuffed olive, halved
• crab dip (or any seafood-style dip, spread, etc.)
• cracker (optional)
• fresh dill sprig

Recipe

• 1 for the body, join 2 rolls together and press into a flat football shape. place body on a large sprayed baking sheet.
• 2 with the next roll, cut enough dough off to form 2 small eyes. roll each piece into a round ball and place on front of body. to secure eyes, stick a small piece of toothpick in each ball and then stick it into the body.
• 3 cut the rest of the roll in half to form 2 arms. place each arm to the side of the eyes but before the ends of the body.
• 4 cut another roll in half to form 2 claws. then cut each claw off-center almost in half and place at the end of each arm, putting the small part of the claw closest to the body. roll the last roll into a 12-inch rope. divide rope into 6 equal lengths for the legs. arrange 2 legs curving forward and 1 leg curving back on each side. tuck legs slightly under the body.
• 5 brush crab with melted butter, cover loosely with plastic wrap and let rise for 30-45 minutes, or til doubled. (i let mine rise for 1 hour, but 45 minutes would've been perfect, mine looked kinda fat, haha!).
• 6 brush crab with beaten egg and sprinkle lightly with paprika.
• 7 bake at 350° for 20 minutes.
• 8 toothpick olive halves onto ends of eyes of dough. cut-side facing outward.
• 9 place crab onto lettuce-lined platter.
• 10 place mound of your favorite crab dip between claws.
• 11 surround with decorative shells (or oysters on the half shell), crackers and fresh dill sprigs if desired!
• 12 i made this for me and my hubby for a "special treat" lunch! i'm allergic to crustaceans, so we had it with my lemon-dilled tuna salad and had a ball! it was so much fun tearing off the pieces and spreading them with tuna, instead of the plain 'ol plain 'ol tuna sandwiches!
• 13 you could make a nice seafood appetizer platter with this, too! shrimp cocktail and fried oysters would be a great addtion! (a nice mix of hot and cold!).
• 14 hope ya try it! :) it's really easy! and fun!