At my school, we have a Halloween Dance and we need some cheap but tasty and fun Halloween treats, any ideas?

Question

I'm president and we don't have a fancy gourmet chef, tight budget, since we spent quite a bit on decorations and we need to keep the crowd pleasant and full up. If you're wondering, it's Pirate theme.

Uh, like I said, something CHEAP, and may I include easy to make, where we don't need to use the kitchen, or should I say cafeteria, for more than an hour to prepare food.

Answer 1

I would serve Sausage on a stick - but call them PEG-LEGGED PIGS. Those can be roasted /grilled earlier in the day - put in a roaster (your school cafeteria will have one) and then all you have to have are squirty bottles of mustard and catsup.

Roasted corn ears is very autumn yummy and can be prepared ahead and stored. You could call these something like S'CORNED BARNACLES OR DEADMAN'S EARS - Argh. Set out butter and different seasonings - like lemon pepper, salt & pepper, chili powder,etc.

I would also serve apples with caramel. This is so easy to do. Warm the caramel sauce in crockpot. Get bags of apples - wash and take off stickers (that's the hardest part). Get one of those apple sectioners. To serve - place in a paper nacho tray, cut the apple up and remove the core and spoon on the caramel sauce. It is soooooo good. Basically caramel apple without a stick and easier to eat. You could call these SHIPWRECKED APPLES.

The last of course is nachos. I would call them something like NEFARIOUS NACHOS!

I hope this helps you - These are all things I have prepared myself personally for school carnivals - they are easy, tasty and sell well - and they are something different than the standard hotdog and hamburger thing.

Answer 2

Last year I tried to make a recipe from memory that I had seen in a magazine. I completely messed it up but everyone loved my creation. I mixed popcorn, fritos and candy corn. It was really yummy. I've seen many recipes for treasure chest cake. I can't recall specifics but if you do a search maybe you can find one. Basically it is a rectangular cake and you make a lid out of cardboard or whatever and prop it up. put candy coins etc. inside. Or, you could make a box to look like a treasure chest and fill it with candy.
You could serve chicken legs and call them pirate peg legs. They could be fried or baked. You could serve round tortilla chips with nacho cheese and call them gold coins. Or slice potatoes into rounds. You can then fry or bake them and call them gold coins. Alternatively, make scalloped potatoes and call them gold coins.
I've seen several cool ideas for eyeballs. One was using boiled eggs. Paint thin veins on them using red food coloring. Then put a green olive slice for the colored part of the eye. Or you could make meatballs and put a dab of cream cheese or sour cream and a black or green olive on top of that for the colored part of the eye. I also saw some neat eyes I think on the family fun website. They used pudding mix and froze it in plastic eggs like you use at Easter. Then they put a gummy lifesaver on it. They were cute. Good luck. It sounds like fun.

Answer 3

This dip is really good with graham cracker sticks.


Cream Cheese-Pumpkin Dessert Dip

Recipe By : Joyce Rosencrans
Serving Size : 1 Preparation Time :0:00
Categories : Desserts

Amount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method
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1 8 oz. pkg. cream cheese -- softened
1 can pumpkin pie mix (not solid-pack pumpkin)
2 cups powdered sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon orange rind -- grated

Beat cream cheese in a mixing bowl until smooth; gradually add pumpkin
pie mix and beat well. Beat in the sugar, spices, and orange rind.
Serve as a dip or spread, with your favorite spice cookies, oatmeal
cookies, molasses cookies or gingersnaps.

Yield 3 cups dip.

Answer 4

Rootbeer floats would be cool to serve for drinks. It looks like ale. yar... gereric brand soda in the bottles and store brand vanilla icream all in a serving bowl. Though.... from past experiences, put the icecream in after the soda, or you'll get waaaay too much foam. Give the bowl a few stirs to make the creamy looking top layer.

Answer 5

TOXIC WASTE PUNCH Adults add your own zip!
For really great punch, put 7UP, multi color sherbet, orange, lemon and lime slices in a small punch bowl. Place this inside a larger punch bowl. In between the 2 bowls, add small amounts of dry ice (carefull, don't touch!). Soon the inner bowl will begin to boil and look like toxic waste.
3 days before fill plastic gloves with a small mixture of 7UP and multi-color sherbet to make hand shaped ice cubes out of punch. Peel off glove before putting in the punch!

Answer 6

lots of very cheap candy and you can design jello to look like a parrot or a pirate and you can buy hard candies and candy corn things like that and you can even make a cake that looks like a pirate! OK thats all I've got



I hope it helps



*Valerie

Answer 7

rice krispie treats using cookie cutters to cut out special shapes. trail mix, chips, punch, lunch meat roll ups(tortilla , mayo,lunch meat)

Answer 8

Popcorn balls are always a hit

Answer 9

orange carmel pop corn balls

Answer 10

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