Halloween Food Ideas & Recipes

Halloween is party time by making your own healthy goodies for your family and friends. Halloween Party Food recipes should be fun, scary and a little gross. But most of all, Halloween Food should be yummy. You'll show one what a real treat is! We've provided some menus to make your gathering of spirits of all ages a smash hit. These recipes work just as well all season long. If you're hosting a children's Halloween party, you'll want to provide an assortment of easy, creative, inexpensive treats for the kids with little baking or hassle. Here are some great ideas for some spooktacular Halloween food.

Have a Ghoulish Halloween!!!

This recipe is a nice treat. First, you will need icing sugar, rectangular biscuites and a toothpick. Take your icing sugar and mix it with hot water until fairly runny. Dip each of your biscuits into the mixture and place onto a foiled tray. Take your toothpick and carve "R.I.P" out of the icing on every biscuit. Place in fridge for a few hours and presto! Your very own mini tombstones!

Buy a can of lychee fruits and simply stuff the little devils with Grapes (try mixing red and green grapes) or Olives. Serve in a hollowed out gourd. Serve this down with Vampire blood. Any red-coloured drink will do. Simply serve it in small pumpkin-type gourds that have been cleaned out. Use black liquorice for straws, and start sucking.

This is both a yummy Halloween Food and a Great Decoration to scare your friends. Use a clean rubber glove. Make a strong cherry or other red jello by using 3/4 of the recommended amount of water. Hang the glove over the sink by using clothes pins attached to thin strips of wood. When the jello has cooled pour into glove and place in the deep freeze. Be careful not to have the hand pressing against anything or it will ruin the shape. When the jello is frozen cut the glove off using small scissors. Keep your masterpiece in the fridge until ready to display.

Ingredients

1. 2 cups plain yogurt
2. 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3. 1 package frozen starwberries or raspberries, thawed
4. ice cubes

Method

1. Pint strawberry ice cream
2. Mix yogurt, vanilla, and berries in the blender.
3. Pour into tall glasses over ice cubes, or chill.
4. Top with a big spoonful of strawberry ice cream

Ingredients

1. 8 Hard Boiled Eggs
2. 4 1/2 tablespoons Mayonnaise
3. 6 large Lettuce leaves
4. 16 Pimiento stuffed olives
5. 1 tablespoon Chocolate sprinkles

Method

• Slice each egg in half lengthwise. With clean fingers, scoop out the yolks and put them in a small bowl.
• Mash the yolks with a fork until they are crumbly. Add mayonnaise and blend. Carefully fill the empty egg whites with yolk mixture.
• Cover a platter with lettuce leaves, setting a leaf or two aside for garnish. Arrange the egg halves, Yolk side down, on the leaves. These are your mice bodies.
• To give them each eyes and a nose, pull the pimento out of an olive and cut it into three sections, add to make the face.
• Cut thirty two thin, lengthwise strips from several of the green olives. Stick two of these strips end to end onto the back end of the mouse to form the tail. Make whiskers the same way. Out of the remaining olives, cut thirty two small triangular ear pieces.

Garnish

Tear small pieces of lettuce and position in front of the mice's mouths as if they have been eating. As a final touch, heap a pile of mouse droppings (chocolate sprinkles) on the platter.

Grate a raw beetroot into fine long strands. Chop smoked salmon into short, thin lengths. Carefully stir the two together with a wooden spoon until well mixed; the salmon will take on the deep red color of the beetroot.Mix a few drops of natural green food coloring into cream cheese until it takes on a suitably Halloween hue.

Spread the green cream cheese onto small shapes of brown bread, or german style black bread. You may like to use your Halloween Cookie Cutters to create spooky bread shapes! Spoon a little of the smoked salmon and beetroot mix onto the green cream cheese.This recipe is delicious, healthy and looks great at any Halloween party.

Prepare Rice Krispie Marshmallow treats according to the cereal box directions. Shape the warm mix into ghosts. Use a ghost cookie cutter if necessary. Add some white icing and mini chocolate chip eyes and the kids will enjoy eating the fun Halloween ghost treats!

Made from nothing more than a small, round seedless watermelon, this spooky cerebral creation is bound to turn heads.

Things Needed

• 1 small seedless watermelon
• Use a vegetable peeler to remove the entire green rind, exposing the inner white rind.

Method

Slice off the bottom of the melon to create a flat base that will keep it from rolling. With a toothpick, outline squiggly furrows that resemble the folded surface of a brain. Finally, carve narrow channels along the tracings with a sharp paring knife to expose the pink fruit beneath the rind.

A Halloween custom food which has survived unchanged to this day in Ireland is the baking (or more often nowadays the purchase) of a barmbrack (Irish "báirín breac"). This is a light fruit cake into which a plain ring is placed before baking. It is said that whoever finds this ring will find his or her true love during the following year.

Ingredients

• White icing
• Red shoestring licorice
• Candy corn
• Chocolate chips
• Cup Cakes

Method

• Frost the cupcakes with the white icing. Make sure there is no cupcake showing through.
• Cut the red licorice into six pieces, each about 1-1/2 inches long. Place three licorice pieces on each side of the cupcake to make whiskers for the cat.
• Cut off the bottom third of two pieces of candy corn. Press into the top of the cupcake to make ears.
• Add three chocolate chips to make the eyes and nose of the cat.

To make scary Halloween Skeleton Pizzas, all you need to do is first bake your pizza or bake boxed pizza. Either one works fine. Then cut the pizzas into skeleton head shapes or use a skeleton head cookie cutter. Use olives for eyes, nose, and mouth. Show your own creativity in decorating the Skeleton.