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Fun Halloween Party Food Ideas

Halloween food, Halloween party Food—kinwart

 

Getting ready for a howling Halloween party this year? Spruce up your party this year with some icky, but yummy party food. Here are some fun food ideas for your ghostly Halloween party:

 

Snot cubes
Refrigerate yellow and green Jello (any flavors) in ice cube trays. Serve chilled.

 

Worms in snot
Make snot cubes, as directed above, out of Jello. Insert gummy worms in each cube of Jello then refrigerate. Serve chilled.

 

Bad apples
Using a small, sharp knife cut a small, round hole in one side of the top of an apple. Insert a gummy worm inside the hole. Create display of “bad apples” in a wooden bucket.

 

Monster Mash
In a large bowl, combine the following ingredients:

 

* 10 cups popcorn
* 1 pound plain M&M’s
* 1-14 oz. jar dry roasted peanuts
* 1 cup raisins (optional)
* 1 cup Reece’s pieces (found in baking isle by chocolate chips)

 

Bowl of Brains
Scramble several eggs. To get the gray brain color, mix in green, red, and blue food coloring as you beat the eggs before cooking them.

 

Buggy Ice Cubes
Insert gummy worms or raisins (for bugs) in ice trays with water and freeze. Insert frozen buggy ice cubes in your bowl of party punch.

  

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Simple Halloween treats you Can Make in Minutes

 

 

Halloween is all about the treats. So, how can you make some fun treats at home that your little ones will love? It’s easier than you might think.

 

Do you have some Halloween Cookie Cutters? That’s all you’ll need to make these first three fun and memorable Halloween treats.

 

 

 

Terrifying Tortilla Chips: Start with some flour tortillas and spray a bit of canola oil on them. Sprinkle parmesan cheese or cinnamon and sugar on them. Then cut fun shapes out of the tortillas with a bat, ghost or pumpkin cookie cutter. Put the shapes into the oven for a crispy treat.

 

Spooky sandwiches: Make your favorite sandwich. Peanut butter and jelly works just fine. Then, using a cookie cutter, press hard into the sandwich and you’ll get a spooky treat. If you use a pumpkin shape cookie cutter, add licorice or candy corn to make eyes and nose on a jack-o-lantern face.

 

Creepy Cheese and Cold Cuts: Buy packaged cheese (the kind that you peel the plastic off). Also, buy some cold-cuts. Using a cookie cutter, make spooky shapes. Present the cheese and cold cuts on a platter as an appetizer – or have a sandwich smorgasbord and allow your guests to use the creepy cheese to make their own sandwiches.

 

Here are a few more last-minute ideas for Halloween fun.

 

Wicked Witch Fingers: Do you have some dough and almonds? Believe it or not, you can make witch fingers. Just stretch out the dough into a “finger-shape” including a knuckle. Then, take the almond and press it into the end to make the fingernail. You can experiment with different colors to make witch fingers creepier. “Paint” the fingernail with food coloring (grey or black is perfect), or make the dough a creepy green color. Oooh… spooky!

 

Green Anything: Take your favorite foods and add a drop of green food coloring to them. Are you in the mood for French toast? Make it green. How about pudding? Make it green. You can even serve green milk with your cookies. You’ll be the coolest mom on the block.

  

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Ten Spooky Snacks

 

Soon after school starts back, it’s time for Halloween. Most classrooms have some type of party where the children can dress up and possibly have snacks. If you've been asked to provide something to eat, choose from these ten spooky snacks you can make for your child’s classroom.

 

 

 

Think about what your child finds spooky, and then be playful with those things. Of course you don’t want to have gory, real-to-life items, but you can still plan for finger foods, cupcakes, or a bubbly concoction for a drink. Let your imagination run wild as you plan spooky snacks the children will love.

 

1. Did someone mention ‘finger foods’? Celery is the basis for these treats. Slice celery stalks into three-inch pieces. Then cut each piece in half. Use slices of cherry tomatoes or pimentos to create red fingernails.

 

2. You can also take hard-boiled eggs and create bloodshot eyes out of them. Leave the eggs whole and crack them a little bit, then place them back into water that has been colored red for a few minutes. This will give the red lines on the egg.

 

3. You can also make edible eyeballs out of powdered donut holes. Put a gummy lifesaver on it with red gel icing to help it stick, and then pipe red lines for bloodshot eyes.

 

4. Decorate cupcakes with any number of spooky candies that are available during this time of the year. Eyes, ugly teeth, bats, and skeletons can easily be found at this time of the year, so see what you can find.

 

5. Meatballs can be made to resemble brains, especially if you mix cheese, eggs, and breadcrumbs into the meat and then fry them. Cut the meatballs in half and place them on a plate. Squeeze some squiggles made out of squeeze cheese.

 

6. Create a bubbly drink by adding dry ice around the bowl that you make the punch in. Put small plastic toys like bats, spiders, and flies inside the ice cubes that will float in the drink.

 

7. Melt some chocolate chips in the microwave and put in dry chow mien noodles into them when they’re melted. Mix well. Spoon the mixture onto greased paper and then add mini M&Ms on them for eyes.

 

8. Make ‘ghost’ sandwiches by using a ghost cookie cutter on white bread. Fill the sandwiches with whatever you prefer, and then decorate the top with mini-chocolate chips for eyes for the ghost.

 

9. Pudding is always a hit with children. Make individual graveyards in disposable cups by filling them with chocolate pudding. Crumble up some chocolate cookies for dirt, add an oval-shaped cookie for the tombstone, and then put a dollop of whipped cream, decorated with mini M&Ms for eyes.

 

10. Jell-o is another favorite among children. Make some green jell-o according to the directions and then add some gummy worms, fish, or bugs before it sets. This will be a fun treat that’s not too spooky.

 

If Halloween is one of your child’s favorite holidays, creating ten spooky snacks might be something you’ll have to do. Use some of these ideas, along with some of your own, to treat your child and their friends to something sweet and just a little bit spooky.