Coffin Bread Recipe

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This chocolate coffin bread is a fun way to enjoy a healthier treat for Halloween!

It’s my favorite time of year!! I love the fall and everything that comes with it! Cooler days, sweaters, warm coffee shops, walks through the cool air, the crunch of the fallen leaves, the vibrant colors and most of all…. Halloween!

Yep, Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year. I know some don’t consider it to be a holiday, but we sure do in the McCauley household, and nobody is gonna tell us different!

We go all out! In fact, I think I decorate my house more for Halloween than for any other holiday. And not all that blood and gore stuff either. I’m more of a “Martha Stewart Halloween” kinda girl. With a young kid, the scary stuff isn’t really an option anyway. At least not for us. But even without a kid, I would still avoid all that icky stuff. That’s just not Halloween for me.

What IS Halloween for me, are recipes like this one! Check it out!

WHAT IS COFFIN BREAD?

Traditionally, coffin bread is a Taiwanese street food that is very much like a pot pie, but in a buttery, very thick piece of hollowed out and toasted bread. With that in mind, I thought I would apply that to the holiday and instead of making dinner, I’d make dessert! I made a loaf of chocolate sweet bread, cut it like a coffin, hollowed it out and put a plastic skeleton inside.

This could also be referred to as casket bread. Both have the same meaning. Typically, this is a savory dinner dish. But why stick with convention when you can enjoy a fun, Halloween treat that is also on the healthier side? Pssst…. you don’t have to tell anyone! They won’t know the difference!

What You’ll Need

• 6 large whole eggs
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ tsp. baking soda
• 1 cup Sucanat or coconut sugar
• 2 tsp. ground cinnamon
• 2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
• ½ tsp. ground allspice

HOW TO MAKE COFFIN BREAD

Making coffin bread is simply a matter of how you cut the loaf of sweet bread. First, you’ll want to bake your loaf of bread.

Then you’ll cut off small portions of the top two edges at an angle. Keep these top cuts smaller. You can always cut off more later if needed, but if you cut off too much, there’s no going back.

Now cut off the two bottom corners, but make these longer/larger cuts to fully form the coffin.

Next, you’ll turn the loaf on it’s side and cut off a full slice at about 1/2 inch thick to create the lid of your coffin. Set it aside.

Now you’ll want to carefully hollow out the coffin part of the loaf with a knife or spoon (or both), but don’t discard the bread you pull out. Transfer it to a bowl.

Follow the shape of the coffin, leaving about a 1/2 inch wall, all the way around. This does not have to be exact.

When you’re finished, it should look pretty close to this.

Finally, you’ll crumble the filling in the bowl to make the “dirt” that covers your skeleton.

Place your skeleton in the coffin, cover him with chocolatey “dirt”, and then set the lid at an angle, leaning against the coffin to make it look like the coffin was just opened.

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MORE SWEET BREAD RECIPES

• Zucchini Bread
• Mini Pumpkin Banana Bread Loaves
• Irish Spice Bread

Recipe from the Gracious Pantry® archives, originally posted 10/16/16.