Hot Crab Dip Baked In A Bread Bowl Kid Friendly Things To Do Recipes

WARM SKILLET CRAB DIP IN A SOURDOUGH BREAD BOWL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425F.
• In a large bowl with a hand mixer or the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, mix together the cream cheese, sour cream, mayonnaise, lemon juice, horseradish, Worcestershire, dry mustard and Old Bay seasoning and some salt and pepper, until well combined. Add the shredded cheese, green onion and crab, mixing on low (or with a spoon), just until combined. Set aside or spoon into a bowl, cover and refrigerate if making ahead.
• With a serrated knife, cut a round out of the top of your Sourdough bread round, leaving 1 - 1/2 inches around the outside of the round and about 1 1/2 inches deep. Gently pull the slice out of the top of the bread and set aside. Cut slices around the outside of the bread round, slicing down in about 1 inch intervals, slicing about 2/3 of the way down the side. Place bread round into your skillet. *Cut the round that you removed from the top into cubes and toast or serve plain with your finished bowl.
• Spoon your dip into the hollowed out center (it may sit above the top of the bread at this point but that's ok). Once filled, gently pull the slices around the outside outwards a bit. This will allow them to toast, but will also make your hollow a little bigger, so your dip should drop down into the bowl some more.
• Loosely cover top of bread bowl with a piece of aluminum foil and place into preheated oven. Bake for 15 minutes (or more if your dip was cold from the fridge). Remove from oven. Remove and discard aluminum foil. Sprinkle top of dip (and onto the tops of the bread as well), with the additional shredded cheese for topping. Return to the oven and bake a further 10 minutes, or until dip is warm and cheese is golden. *If toasting additional bread cubes, scatter on a baking sheet and place on the rack under the bread bowl for the last few minutes of baking (after the cheese has been added).
• Garnish with additional diced green onion and serve warm in the skillet. **Wrap the hot skillet handle if sering hot from the oven, just so no one is tempted to grab a hold of it!

HOT CRAB DIP IN A ROUND LOAF

Steps:

• Mix together and set aside.
• Take round loaf of bread (sour dough) and cut small circle out of top of bread (do not throw it away).
• Cut away the center of the bread to make a hollow space inside (keep insides as well).
• Place crab meat mixture inside bread.
• Put the lid you sliced off back on.
• Bake at 350° for 1 hour and serve hot with remaining bread or extra baguette.
• If extra filling, place in casserole dish and bake beside bread.

HOT CRAB DIP I

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Combine the cream cheese, milk, mayonnaise, horseradish, crab meat and Old Bay Seasoning ™. Mix until creamy. Spread mixture into an 8x12 inch baking dish, and bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 35 to 40 minutes.
• Cut a circle out of the top of the bread and scoop out the inside. Tear the inside into pieces for dipping.
• Remove mixture from oven and spoon into hollowed bread. Cover the top with the shredded cheese and more seasoning. Place the bread bowl on a medium baking sheet, and bake in the preheated oven 45 minutes, or until the cheese is melted. Serve hot with bread pieces on the side.

CRAB DIP IN A BREAD BOWL

Steps:

• If you purchase bakery round bread, omit the next few steps.
• BREAD BOWL:Mix both bread mixes together according to manufacturer's instructions.
• Let rise until double in bulk.
• With non-stick cooking spray, spray the inside of a 9" or 1" springform pan.
• Knead dough and place in pan, pressing down as evenly flat as possible.
• Let rise 1 to 2 hours until dough reaches the top of the pan.
• Bake about 50-65 minutes at 350 degrees, until completely cooked.
• Run knife around edge of loaf, and let cool completely.
• Remove outer pan rim.
• Cut a thin top layer from the bread and remove most of the bread inside, leaving a"shell" of bread to form your bowl.
• Place bread on serving tray (large enough to hold crackers or bread cubes around it).
• DIP:In mixer, mix cream cheese with all other ingredients except chili sauce and crab.
• When well blended, add chili sauce and mix until blended.
• Gently stir in crab meat.
• Spoon into shallow baking dish and bake until warm in the center.
• Cool until not hot to the touch.
• Spoon crab dip into bread bowl on serving tray; sprinkle bacon and almonds on top, and surround with assorted crackers and a few sprigs of greenery for garnish.