Halloween Party food

Halloween Party Food

• Eyeballs – stuffed green olives, peeled grapes or peeled cheery tomatoes (bloody eyeballs)
• Fingers – pickled Gherkins (Goblins), small red hotdogs
• Moldy dip – color your favorite cheese dip with green food coloring or use guacamole
• Worms – have a large bowl of spaghetti with your favorite tomato sauce
• Witch's cauldron – hollow out a large round dark loaf of bread, leaving an inch of bread with the crust, and three quarter fill with your favorite dip. Invite guests to tear off pieces of the cauldron and dip into the center. You could also have a list of the ghoulish ingredients (eg frogs gizzards, snakes eyes, monster slime, bat blood etc).
• Bat's wings – coat chicken wings with your favorite honey and soy sauce marinade, and add black food coloring (or a mixture of red, blue and green) to the mixture. Grilled under a griller they should be black and glossy.
• Maggot casserole – add white long grain rice to your favorite casserole recipe.
• Monster heads – cut the tops off green capsicums and scoop out the seeds and membrane. Fill with your favorite stuffing and bake until cooked. Use a little blue food coloring to make the stuffing look like brains. Insert two asparagus spears into the top as antennae, cut two holes and use stuffed olives for eyes, and cut a hole for a mouth, adding a piece of carrot for a tongue.
• Moldy potato – add snipped chives and green food coloring to a bowl of mashed potato.
• Tombstone cake – bake a chocolate cake in a bar tin and turn it upside down or level it so the top is flat. Ice it with white icing to resemble a tombstone. Make a headstone or cross from white cardboard and write RIP in red paint dribbling it down to resemble blood. Mold a hand out of fondant icing and have it coming up out of the grave.

Halloween Drinks

• Bat punch – use black food coloring to darken your punch. If black food coloring is not available, red, blue and yellow mixed together will work almost as well.
• Blood punch – make up a raspberry punch with red cordial and soda and add extra red food coloring. Float bones from a plastic skeleton on top. Peeled grapes can be floated in the punch as eyeballs.
• Spooky ice cubes – freeze well-washed plastic bugs, beetles, spiders etc in ice cube trays and add to the punch. Raisins, sultanas and currents can be used instead of plastic bugs.

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