| Put a little fun
into that Halloween dinner or party with some of these downright
delectable (or is that disgusting?) dishes!
Finger
foods (or should they be called 'food fingers?')
Roll
bread dough into long fingers and use a small bit of red sweet pepper
for the fingernail. Bake according to instructions on bread dough
package. Use salsa for the 'blood' dip.
Witches
Brew Punch
Mix up a batch
of lemonade from frozen concentrate or powdered mix. Add a few
drops of green food coloring to tint the punch. Added touch: drop a
gummy worm in each compartment of an ice cube tray, fill with water and
freeze. Then add the ice cubes to the witches brew!
Eyeball
Radishes
Peel radishes,
leaving thin streaks of red skin on the sides (representing blood
vessels). Scoop out a small hole in the center of each radish, then
stuff a green olive into each hole.
Swamp
Slime
Make lime green
gelatin and orange gelatin in two separate bowls and let it set
slightly. Add both gelatins to a clear glass bowl and mix slightly
to combine the colors. Add gummy bugs and worms, stir and refrigerate.
Serve with a dollop of whipped cream on top (put a gummy worm in the
whipped cream so it looks like it is crawling out of the gelatin.
Spider
Treats
(we
made this for my son's 'bug themed' birthday party and it was a hit!)
round
'Ritz' type crackers
peanut
butter
cheese
in a can
pretzel
sticks
raisins
Spread
one cracker with peanut butter or cheese. Break pretzel sticks in
half and place 8 half pretzel sticks on top of the peanut butter or
cheese to resemble legs. Spread peanut butter or cheese on another
cracker and place it on top of the first (peanut butter/cheese side
down). Use a dab of peanut butter to hold the raisin 'eyes' in
place on top of the second cracker.
Wormy
applesauce
(Another
treat from my son's birthday party)
Individual
cups of green pear applesauce
Gummy
candy worms
Open
the individual cups of applesauce and place one or two worms inside, so
it appears like they are crawling out of the applesauce.
Bug
Punch
Ice
cube trays
water
plastic
bugs
12 oz orange juice concentrate, frozen
12
oz. white grape juice
64 oz 7-Up soda or other lemon/lime
1 pint sherbet, lemon or lime
green food coloring
Freeze plastic bugs in water in ice cube trays. Mix together orange juice concentrate, white grape juice, 7-Up,
lemon or lime sherbet, and several drops of green food coloring in a
punch bowl. Drop frozen ice cubes into punch.
Edible
inchworms
Green
grapes
pretzel
sticks
carrot
slivers
toothpick
Assemble
three green grapes, using a pretzel stick to hold them together.
Using a toothpick, pierce two tiny holes on one grape at the end and
insert two carrot slivers for the worm's antenna.
Witch's
Hat
Keebler® fudge striped cookies,
Hershey® Kisses
A tube of orange decorator icing.
Turn cookies upside down so that the
striped chocolate side is down. Place a bit of frosting in the
center of the cookie to hold the unwrapped Kiss candy. Pipe a little
band and bow around the base of the Kiss. (Alternatively, you can use an
orange fruit roll, cut in a long strip, for the band of the hat.)
Here
are a few other ideas found on other websites:
Monsters,
witches hats and pumpkins made from Rice
Krispies
Mummies
made from pretzel rods and melted Dove
Promises milk chocolate bars
Halloween
Hands made from Jello
Jigglers
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