Halloween Recipes

Halloween recipes for a great halloween party.

The benefit of halloween recipes for a halloween party is that you don't need to wrap the food individually - you can present the food on platters surrounded by halloween decorations, for an added effect.

The fun part can be coming up with decorative names and labels that you place next to each platter.

Halloween Drinks

Handy Punch

Buy a latex rubber glove and wash it thoroughly. Turn it inside out so the smooth side is on the inside. Fill it with raspberry cordial, and freeze it until rock hard. Then mix together your favourite fruit juices to make a punch. Splash warm water over the glove until it is loose enough to take the glove off the ice. Place the icy hand in the punch. Place glow lights under the punch bowl to give it a spooky appearance.

Halloween Entrees

Devilled Chicken Wings

Oven-bake chicken wings in spicy sauce.

Skeleton Bread Bones

skeleton bread bones
  1. These were really easy.
  2. I used frozen sheets of butter puff pastry, from the supermarket.
  3. While the pastry is still frozen, cut with a knife and ruler into 8 rectangles.
  4. I used scissors to free-form cut out bone shapes.
  5. It is easiest while the pastry is still frozen, otherwise it gets sticky.
  6. Sprinkle with sugar (or grated cheese if you like savoury), and bake in oven as per directions on the packet.
  7. Great - both kids and dogs loved these skeleton bones.

Halloween Desserts and Lollies

Licorice Red-back Spiders

licorice spiders
  1. Buy black licorice and red snakes (or red licorice)
  2. Cut black licorice into thin strips for legs.
  3. Twist four strips over each other to make 8 legs.
  4. Experiment with a black loop of licorice for the body.
  5. Use the red snake or licorice to tie the legs together.

Witches Fingers

witches fingers
  1. As a shortcut, I used bought cookie dough from the supermarket.
  2. Shape dough into skinny long fingers.
  3. Mark some lines with a knife, for the knuckles
  4. Place a Smarty or M&M for the fingernails
  5. Back as per directions on the packet
  6. Note. This was an experiment that didn't really work out, as the purchased cookie dough expands quite a lot. It would work better with a traditional shortbread recipe.
  7. An alternative look is for a drop of red gel icing, with a sliver of blanched almond on top, to make it look like a fingernail with blood underneath.

Halloween Snacks

Coffin Corn Chips

Fill a small coffin-shaped box with CCs. Place a small plastic skeleton in the box on top of the corn chips. Place a small bowl of tomato salsa dip in the skeleton's hands.

Grape Eyeballs

Peel the skin off grapes.

 

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