I need new recipes for an orange/black dinner? Halloween inspired...?

Question

We have this dinner every year, around halloween for friends. Everything is orange and black (or close!) and this year, I am looking for some new recipes or ideas, so let your creative juices flow. No repeats! We've done the obvious, remember this has been going on for 7 years now. Thanks in advance!!!

i really like some of the ideas posted, but please know that i need incredibly creative items... not food coloring, and i should say that i am looking for entree's and side dishes, my dessert will definitely be the black rice pudding!!!!

Answer 1

you could go to receips.com and get a receipe for black bean soup and serve it with orange tortilla chips. I know around here (Mississippi) at our local sams club, you can buy orange and black tortilla chips during the halloween season. For a dessert, you could always do cupcakes and use food coloring and decorate them in a lot of different and cute ways. i did some one time and made a batch of orange cupcakes and iced some of them black and some green. then i made some black cupcakes and iced them orange and some green. It is amazing what you can do with food coloring. As far as the top of the cupcakes, you can do anything with them. I did some pumpkins, some withches, some scarcrows, some spiders, and so on. you just have to be creative.
You could also do a pumpkin cake. Use a round cake pan and bake you cake as usual (and as many layers as you want) and then use orange icing. Then, get some green icing to make
stem. They turn out so cute. Good luck and have fun.

Answer 2

I do a taco dip for all occasions. But it's really great for Halloween.
Use a round cookie sheet/pizza pan
Spread refried beans onto pan, on top of that put sour cream, then salsa, top it with finely shredded sharp cheddar cheese, and then use sliced black olives to form the eyes, nose and mouth of a jack o lantern.

Answer 3

How about Chipotle Spiced Black Bean Salad as your Veggie? You could do a blackend Chicken for meat. Pumpkin cookies sound great for dessert.

Answer 4

Food coloring

Answer 5

maybe make a pumpkin pie with cooked eggplant for the topping. It will go black but wont be burnt!

Answer 6

Spiderweb Brownies

4 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
3/4 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
3 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts
1 (7 ounce) jar marshmallow creme
1 (1 ounce) square semisweet chocolate
DIRECTIONS
In a saucepan over low heat, stir unsweetened chocolate and butter until chocolate is melted. Remove from the heat; stir in sugar. Cool for 10 minutes. Blend in eggs and vanilla. Stir in flour and nuts. Pour into a greased foil-lined 13-in. x 9-in. x 2-in. baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees F for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (do not overbake). Immediately drop marshmallow cream by spoonfuls over hot brownies; spread evenly. Cool on a wire rack. Lift out of the pan; remove foil. Place on a serving tray. For web decoration, melt semisweet chocolate and pour into a small resealable plastic bag. Cut a small hole in one corner of the bag; drizzle chocolate over creme in a spiderweb design.

Creepy Witches' Fingers

Yield: 5 dozen

1 cup Butter, softened
1 cup Icing sugar
1 Egg
1 tsp Almond extract
1 tsp Vanilla
2 2/3 cups Flour
1 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Salt
3/4 cup Almonds, whole blanched
1 Tube red decorator gel
(optional, not pictured)

Gross everyone out with these creepy cookies.
In bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking soda, and salt. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Working with one quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remainder refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoonful of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press almond firmly into 1 end for nail. Squeeze in centre to create knuckle shape. (Accompanying picture showed long rolled shape with bulge at centre for knuckle; you puff it out rather than squeeze it in.) Using paring knife, make slashes in several places to form knuckle.

Place on lightly greased baking sheets; bake in 325F (160C) oven for 20-25 minutes or until pale golden. Let cool for 3 minutes. Lift up almond, squeeze red decorator gel onto nail bed and press almond back in place, so gel oozes out from underneath. You can also make slashes in the finger and fill them with "blood."
(ed. note - I opted not to go for the bloody effect as you can see in my picture above, and my guests were still grossed out! - Britta)

Remove from baking sheets and let cool on racks. Repeat with remaining dough.

Answer 7

All I can think of is mashed sweet potato!!!

Answer 8

http://oldfashionedliving.com/holidays/halloweenfood2.html
http://recipes.bhg.com/recipes/recipedetail.jsp?recipeId=R069666
http://recipes.bhg.com/recipes/recipedetail.jsp?recipeId=R045855
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