It’s easy to make these bombs, stuffing cheesy, spicy chicken into pizza dough pockets. They’re baked in the oven in just 15 minutes, and ready to decorate for a scary good holiday. The key to having a fun and spooky Halloween meal is to use your creativity to make your food look like spiders, ghosts, and disassembled body parts! And while this may not be an everyday kind of recipe, it’s certainly on theme for Halloween. Just look at these cute spiders! My favorite part is the creepy articulated legs, made with pretzel sticks and black olives. My second favorite part is the tasty buffalo chicken filling, made with cream cheese, shredded cheese, cooked chicken, and buffalo wing sauce! Need more fun Halloween food ideas? Try my Halloween Spaghetti with mozzarella cheese eyeballs, or spooky Witch Finger Breadsticks.
Buffalo Chicken Bombs Recipe Highlights
Looking for even more easy Halloween appetizers? Check out my Halloween Taco Dip, or skip to dessert and bake up some Halloween Chocolate Cupcakes.
Key Ingredients
Here’s what you need to make these Buffalo Chicken Bombs for Halloween: Complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.
Pizza Dough: The outside of the bombs is made from pizza dough. You can use refrigerated pre-made dough (the kind that comes in a can works perfectly), or try my bread machine pizza dough recipe. Let the dough come to room temperature so that it’s easy to work with. Cooked Chicken: I’m actually using some leftover crispy chicken tenders to make these, but any kind of already cooked chicken will work. Feel free to cook up some frozen chicken fingers for this recipe. You can also poach chicken breasts and shred them or use rotisserie chicken. Buffalo Wing Sauce: Franks Buffalo Wing Sauce is very good, but if you like, you can make homemade wing sauce using my easy recipe. Be sure to use a wing sauce rather than just plain hot sauce, or your chicken will be too spicy! Cream Cheese: This gives the filling a wonderful creamy texture and helps to bind all of the ingredients together. Allow the cream cheese to come to room temperature before mixing. Shredded Cheese: For the best flavor and meltiness, use a combination of freshly shredded sharp cheddar and mozzarella cheeses. Black Food Coloring: You’ll need gel food coloring to make these chicken bombs a nice deep black color. We’ll mix the black coloring with butter and seasonings. Decorations: Pretzel sticks, pitted black olives, and will give these buffalo chicken bombs a fun spider disguise!
How To Make Buffalo Chicken Bombs Spiders
Start by preheating your oven to 400°F/200°C. Line a large baking sheet with aluminum foil and spray lightly with oil.
Recipe Tips
If the chicken mixture seems dry, add a little extra buffalo sauce to pull it together. Fuller is better. It will seem like you’re adding a lot of the filling to each ball of dough, but that is what will give the spider its shape! If it’s helpful, you can use your hands to press the filling together like a snowball before you add it to the dough. Create a good seal. If there are holes in the dough, the filling will ooze out! Pinch the seams of the pizza dough together to be sure that won’t happen. Use the tip of a small knife to help you add the details to each spider. The candy eyes will need a space to fit into, and it can be helpful to create tiny holes in the olives to get the pretzels into them easily. Skip the food coloring, and coat the bombs in poppy seeds before baking! To get them to stick, use a light coating of egg wash. You can also just omit the food coloring and leave these a natural color.
Storing Tips
These are going to be best if eaten right away, but if you need to store leftovers, keep them in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can reheat the buffalo chicken bombs (without the spider decorations) in the air fryer, or in the oven for a few minutes, just until heated through.
Can I make buffalo chicken bombs with crescent dough?
I don’t recommend using crescent roll dough for this recipe, as it’s very soft and won’t hold its shape well. The crescent dough is also already very buttery, so the layer of black garlic butter could make the bombs greasy.
What kind of chicken should I use?
You can use any kind of already cooked chicken. Breaded chicken, like chicken fingers or chicken tenders add a delicious texture to the filling. Non-breaded chicken breast will also be totally tasty!
Can I make these ahead of time?
Yes! Wrap the chicken mixture into the dough and store the balls in the refrigerator for up to 24 hours. When you’re ready to bake, continue with the rest of the recipe instructions. These spider-shaped Buffalo Chicken Bombs are going to be so fun for your Halloween party this year! Save this recipe for the occasion by Pinning it! © Little Sunny Kitchen
