Halloween party food?

Question

Am doing a halloween/birthday party for my son (10) his friends and some adult friends. Foodwise, do you think I should do traditional party food with some halloween twists or just something in the oven, like a meat stew and a curry? If it's party food can anyone suggest some spooky ideas?
Ideas so far include...

jelly hands made in rubber gloves (but would they taste bad?)
eyeball cakes
ghost cakes

I'm sure someone has some fab ideas = )

Answer 1

This is NOT a joke! This is great for Halloween!

CAKE INGREDIENTS:
1 box spice or German chocolate cake mix
1 box of white cake mix
1 package white sandwich cookies
1 large package vanilla instant pudding mix
A few drops green food coloring
12 small Tootsie Rolls or equivalent

SERVING "DISHES AND UTENSILS"
1 NEW cat-litter box
1 NEW cat-litter box liner
1 NEW pooper scooper

1) Prepare and bake cake mixes, according to directions, in any size pan. Prepare pudding and chill. Crumble cookies in small batches in blender or food processor. Add a few drops of green food coloring to 1 cup of cookie crumbs. Mix with a fork or shake in a jar. Set aside.

2) When cakes are at room temperature, crumble them into a large bowl. Toss with half of the remaining cookie crumbs and enough pudding to make the mixture moist but not soggy. Place liner in litter box and pour in mixture.

3) Unwrap 3 Tootsie Rolls and heat in a microwave until soft and pliable. Shape
the blunt ends into slightly curved point s. Repeat with three more rolls. Bury the rolls decoratively in the cake mixture. Sprinkle remaining white cookie crumbs over the mixture, then scatter green crumbs lightly over top.

4) Heat 5 more Tootsie Rolls until almost melted. Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with crumbs from the litter box. Heat the remaining Tootsie Roll until pliable and hang it over the edge of the box. Place box on a sheet of newspaper and serve with scooper. Enjoy!

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Answer 2

My mum always used to send things in to my school (when I was much younger!) for Halloween. I think the best thing is normal 'dressed up' as scary food so we used to have: Cat's eyeballs: Pickled onions Witches finger: Hot dogs Giant's toe nails: Crisps Witches broomsticks: Chocolate fingers Blood soup: Tomato soup You could also decorate pizza's (any bought cheese and tomato base) with various toppings to make them look like monsters: for example Pepper slices for eyebrows and angry mouth, pepperoni for eyes, and pineapple for a nose. You could also get your children to help with this! (if you have time!) You could do Halloween Horror Jelly - just jelly with Haribo Horror sweets in. (This may not be the best idea for being out of the fridge though!) Also a quick topping for icing the cupcakes that everyone is mentioning which is easy and quicker than the fiddly piping icing etc. Colour some butter icing or normal icing sugar green with a few drops of colouring and then place fizzy jelly snakes on top. They look really affective are relatively quick and taste jummy. Most supermarkets have these in their cheap sweets section! Hope you have fun!

Answer 3

I would suggest a buffet for all ages. of course reeses peices ( they are orange and brown) then you can make worms and eyeballs ( spaghetti and meatballs) you can carve a pumpkin and put fruit salad in it. Cut finger sandwiches in the shape of pumpkins and bats - use cookie cutters. ALso get some store bought sugar cookie dough and make sugar cookies and let the kids decorate their own, Get some colored frosting in tubes and get candy corn, sprinkles and other things for them to make. They will love it. Put on a scary music cd to set the mood. You can make a red punch and put funny ice cubes in it. Olives on toothpicks make good eyeball additions to sandwiches. Just as long as its not too much work on you it will be fun and something for your son to enjoy. ANy food that required the kids to help make or decorate is usually a big hit. make sure you cover the table/floor so if the icing gets dropped ( and it will ) that the carpet's not stained.

Answer 4

i think the jelly hands r a bad idea. who knows wuts in those gloves?

i once did this:
get some cookie dough (any flavour) and get cookie cutters that r puzzle pieces that actually fit together.

once cooked put pieces together.

with icing make a halloween design on the cookies.

let icing dry then with a knife cut around the puzzle pieces (so people can grab anyone they want) but make sure the picture on the cookies is still seen.


people loved mine. hope i helped.

Answer 5

Me and my mum used to do this for my little brother and his friends!

Hot dogs, bobbing apples (or toffee apples) were the basics.

Hot dog sausages can be cut in half and dipped in tomato ketchup so they look like severed fingers (YEUCH!). The buns can be cut open jaggedly to look like jagged teeth which have bitten the fingers off.

You should be able to get moulds for jellies etc in ghost and other sppoky shapes.

www.halloween.com

is a great place to get ideas.

There are loads of Halloween party recipes on this forum

http://www.halloween.com/bb/viewforum.php?f=5

Answer 6

Look at the website below, this girl always goes all out for halloween, this year I'm gonna have pumpkin cookies, black and orange mini muffins, and a witches pasta bake with slugs and batmeat. Its just pasta, with a creamy sauce made out of onions, mushrooms, chicken, cream of chicken soup, milk, cheese and food colouring, plus you put cheese and double cream on top.

Also, use cheese puffs, and call them witches toes!!!

Answer 7

hi you could do a finger buffet (literally!) or have fun with food colourings such as green sandwiches or blue trifle, in my experience with boys the more gore the better maybe use ketchup for fake gore or maybe combine do an adult curry but float false eyeballs etc in it good luck have fun x

Answer 8

one thing to do is a worn dig fill a basin with tinned spagetti about 15 tins of the cheap stuff in tom sauce, fill it with small wrapped toys and let the kids have a worn dig , you could make frozen hangs with the gloves with coloured water for putting in a punch, i done one which i drapped over a bowl before putting it in the freezer and it looked really cool, and the kids were impressed.

Answer 9

Get some Quail (or other small birds) cook which ever way you want but serve them as vampire bats. Leg of lamb (haunch of werewolf). Guaranteed to impress a 10 year old, just get your guests to work with you

Answer 10

Frog spawn jelly.
Add raisins to green jelly when it is half set so that they spread evenly through the jelly.
Goes down a treat.