Halloween Foods

Appetizers

• Bat Wings with Swamp Dip* - marinated chicken wings with a sour cream/mustard dip
• Bumps On A Log - Celery filled with peanut butter and raisins
• Brain Soup - Make some "Matzo Ball Soup" or "Chicken and dumplings" and add green food coloring
• Creamy Pumpkin Dip
• Ghost Eaters Queso Blanco* - cut out colored tortillas with Halloween cutters and bake or fry. Serve with white cheese dip
• Hard-Boiled Egg Ghosts - cut out eyes & mouth, and stuff with black olive slices
• Healthy Eyeballs  - Take hard boiled eggs, remove shell and cut lengthwise. Scoop out yolk, and fill hole with whipped cream cheese. Use an olive with pimento for pupil. For the "bloodshot" look decorate with red food coloring and a toothpick.
• Pepitas (Roasted Pumpkin Seeds)
• Skeleton & Brain Dip* - arrange veggies as a skeleton with a bowl of dip for the head
• Spiced Bat Wings*  - Chicken wings with a spiced curry dry rub
• Spider Web Dip* - black bean & guacamole dip, decorated with sour cream spider web
• Spiderweb Munch* - rice krispy treat decorated with peanut butter spider web
• Zombie Eyeballs* - cheesy dough wrapped around stuffed olives. They're GREAT!

Beverages

• Floating Hand Punch - Float life-size zombie hands made from ice in your punchbowl. Buy a couple of latex or rubber gloves. Wash them thoroughly with dish soap and turn them inside out. Carefully pour in water. Fasten tightly at the wrist with a rubber band. The shape will turn out best if you hang the gloves, fingers down, from your freezer shelf. Freeze for at least one full day. To remove, run warm water over the gloves very briefly -- just long enough to loosen the gloves from the ice -- and carefully peel them off the frozen hands. The ice fingers break off easily, but that's okay - it just adds to the "zombie" effect.
• Bloody Mary - of course!
• Kool Aid Floating Hands* - frozen Kool-Aid "hands" floating in your favorite punch
• Wormy Ice Ring - prepare one 6-ounce can frozen pineapple-orange juice concentrate. Arrange chewy fruit worms in the bottom of a 4-cup ring mold. Pour juice into mold to almost cover worms. Do not allow the worms to float. Cover and place in freezer for 1 hour or until frozen. Add any remaining juice to mold. Cover and freeze until firm.

• Witch's Brew Punch - mix cranberry juice, frozen orange juice (with pulp), and ginger ale. Add green and blue food coloring until color becomes a disgusting gray color.

OR  Make some orange juice (with pulp) and add coloring

• Pumpkin Punch - Orange Kool-Aid and float plastic spiders in it. 


• Traditional Dry Ice -  Great for special effects.

• Ghoul-Ade*: mix orange and grape Kool-Aid for a black punch
• Slime Punch Ring - Freeze green punch in a gelatin mold along with plastic bugs, spiders and eyeballs. And place a few small glow sticks underneath the punch bowl -- when the lights are turned down, the brew will radiate in a mysterious and unearthly fashion.

• Turn your punchbowl into a steamy, smoky witch's cauldron!
• Buggy Ice Cubes - Make uncanny ice cubes with plastic bugs & spiders
• Punch Ice Cubes - If you're not using a punch bowl, use ice cube trays to freeze green, red, or orange-colored punch. They will look creepy yet delicious in a glass of any clear or light-colored beverage.
• Layered Drinks - Float creepy-colored liqueurs and mixers on top (some will sink to the bottom, but that's even creepier!). Try grenadine syrup (to look like blood!), crème de menthe or melon liqueur (to look like green slime!), or sour peach or orange schnapps (to look like pumpkin ooze).
• Gummy Shooters - Make a batch of gelatin shooters in red, green or black cherry flavors. When they are set but not yet firm, place a gummy worm "crawling" out of each one.
• Samples from the Mad Scientist's Lab - Buy plastic beakers from a party supply store or florist. Pour shots of brightly colored booze into them, and invite your guests to take part in your "experiments." (For the kids and non-drinkers in the bunch, serve vivid, fizzy drinks in the beakers. Try adding color to lemon-lime soda with food color or flavored syrup.)

Entrees and Sides

• Bat Sandwiches - cut dark bread into bat shapes and fill with your favorite filling
• Constricting Snake Bites* - ham sandwich baked in dough shaped like a snake
• Halloween Mummy Dogs* - wrap hot dogs in crescent rolls or pizza dough like mummies; add mustard eyes
• Jack-O'-Lantern Cheeseburger Pie* - double-crust cheeseburger pie
• Offer grilled hot dogs, popcorn and cheese puffs served from a caldron
• Witches Fingers: Long chicken strips
• Worm Casserole: 6 oz egg noodles and 8 oz spaghetti, cooked.   Mix with 1 Tablespoon butter and 1 1/2 cups grated cheddar cheese.  Bake until melted.  Sprinkle with bread crumbs (dirt) and bake until toasted.
• Zombie Meatloaf - shape your favorite meatloaf into a zombie shape; add eyes, nose & mouth. Use a dagger for serving utensil.

• Brain Salad - Make green Jell-O, add red food coloring until the desired color, add tiny fruit pieces.  If you don't happen to have a "brain" mold in the cabinet, you can make one. Use a mixing bowl for the stand, shape heavy-duty foil into desired shape. Place in bowl, fill with Jell-O.

Treats

Cookies

• Candy-Filled Witches' Hats* - witches' hats made from waffle cones & cookies
• Gingerbread zombies and vampires - gingerbread cookies decorated with bloodshot eyes, candy corn fangs, and widow's peaks
• Nutter Butter Ghost Cookies* - dip Nutter Butters in white chocolate, then add eyes
• Spider Cookies: Use Oreo cookies. Lift top put three strands of licorice across cookie and put top back on.  Use two dots of icing to anchor red hots for eyes
• Spidery Cookie Wreaths - braided butter cookie wreaths decorated with icing spiders
• Witch Fingers* - dye sugar cookie dough green or purple and shape it into small thin logs; flatten slightly, press a blanched almond or almond slice into one end for fingernails, and bake as usual. Once cool, dribble red gel icing onto the bases of the fingers for that "recently severed" look.
• Witches Hats - You will need a Keebler fudge striped cookie (or similar), a Hershey Kiss and orange decorator icing for each hat. Turn cookie upside down so that the chocolate side is up. Use the orange decorator icing to pipe around the hole in the center. Place an unwrapped Kiss on the icing circle. Finish by piping around the base of the kiss and drawing a little bow.

Cakes

• Bat Cupcakes - use chocolate covered graham crackers, pressing one corner down into the frosting to make the wings, or carefully trim into wing shapes.
• Kitty Litter Cake -  gross-looking and fun,  tootsie roll logs look like the real thing!
• Ghost Cake - unmold sheet cake, and cut into the shape of a ghost, frost with white frosting, and use black gumdrops or frosting for eyes.
• Graveyard Cake - Bake a cake in a 9x13 inch baking pan, and decorate it to look like a graveyard by using square shortbread cookies for tombstones. Write R.I.P. on them with small tubes of frosting or melted chocolate. Use green decorating sugar over chocolate frosting to make grass and use chocolate cookie crumbs to make dirt for the graves.
• Jack-o-Lantern Cake - Place a  jack-o-lantern stencil (they come with the pumpkin carving tools) carefully over the top of any cake. Dust with confectioners' sugar or orange decorating sugar
• Pumpkin Patch Dirt Cake - chocolate cake and frosting, decorated with green tube icing "vines" and candy pumpkins
• Spider Cupcakes - frost cupcakes with black colored frosting. Attach black licorice for legs and small pieces of colored gumdrops or red hot candies for glowing eyes.

Candies

• Caramel Apples

Molded and Frozen Desserts

• Creepy Crawly Gelatin - gelatin molded with gummy worms
• Frozen Halloween Dessert - orange sherbet in a chocolate crumb crust
• Frozen Jack-O'-Lanterns - hollowed out oranges filled with ice cream

Misc. Snacks and Desserts

• Rice Krispie Ghost Treats - shape Rice Krispie Treats into standing ghost shapes, then dip in white chocolate
• Halloween Kitty - shape Rice Krispie Treats into cat shape, decorate with licorice strings
• Halloween Spider* - Shape Rice Krispie Treats into a spider shape
• Popcorn Witch's Hat and Broomsticks - shaped & decorated Rice Krispie Treats
  
   

Decorations and Embellishments

• Black Frosting - mix some blue food coloring into chocolate frosting.
• White Chocolate Ghost Decorations - melt white chocolate chips or candy coating in the microwave (stir frequently). Spoon small blobs onto waxed paper, and use the back of a spoon or your finger to spread the frosting into ghost shapes. If the chocolate is too thick or starts to seize, stir in a little vegetable oil. Make eyes with pieces of candy or holes with a drinking straw while it is still warm, and then refrigerate until set. Peel the ghosts off of the paper, and place them around your cake, on top of cupcakes or even onto freshly frosted cookies.
• Chocolate Spider Decorations - You can melt chocolate chips or candy coating, and then stir in blue food coloring. Spoon blobs onto waxed paper and before it sets, place pretzels or licorice whips sticking out to make legs for scary spiders or gross bugs.

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