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Creepy, kooky, mysterious and ooky! Serve guests a big brain, eyeballs and worms at your Halloween party.
Of course, we're suggesting fun food that looks like body parts and creatures...did we mention Witches' Fingers and Orange Pepper Jack-O-Lanterns filled with Black & Green Olive Tapenade.
Read on, if you dare, to find 10 devilishly delicious party food recipes and ideas for Fright Night.
Create a spider web design made out of sour cream on top of guacamole
or my crowd-pleasing Triple Layer Guacamole, Egg and Cream Cheese Torte
(recipe below).
Makes about appetizer 100 servings
Ingredients
- 2(8- oz. ) packages cream cheese, softened
- 1 cup finely chopped red onion
- 16 eggs, hard-boiled, coarsely chopped
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 4 large, ripe avocados, mashed
- 1/2 clove garlic, minced
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- Salt & pepper
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- Plastic spiders
Steps
- Add cream cheese and onion into a bowl and mix until blended.
- In another bowl, mix together eggs, mayonnaise, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper until thoroughly combined. Cover and set aside.
- In another bowl, mix together avocados, garlic and lemon juice, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper until thoroughly combined.
- Layer ingredients into a 10-inch spring-form pan. Spread egg mixture on bottom and smooth top surface until even.
- Spread 1/2 of the avocado mixture on top of egg and smooth top surface until even.
- Spread cream cheese mixture on top of avocado and smooth top surface until even.
- Spread remaining avocado mixture on top of cream cheese and smooth top surface until even.
- Spoon sour cream into a plastic needle nose bottle or a pastry bag fitted with a no. 7 round tip and pipe a spider web design on top surface of torte. Chill until firm.
- When ready to serve, place the torte on a serving platter. Undo the spring-form pan latch. Carefully run a knife around the edge of the torte to loosen from the pan. Gently lift off the pan's collar. Wipe the side of the serving tray if necessary. Garnish with plastic spiders and serve with crackers.
Take a close peek at the photo with the RIP and ghost cookies on a tray (shown at the top) and you'll see hard-boiled eggs with blue pupils and bloodshot eyes (instructions below).
Steps
- Place raw eggs in a pot and add water filling to 1 inch above eggs.
- Bring to a boil over medium-high and cook for 10-15 minutes.
- Remove from heat and immediately run cold water in the pot.
- Cool eggs to the touch and peel off shells.
- Cut eggs in half, crosswise.
- Remove yolk and mix in a bowl with a little mayo and blue food coloring.
- Put cut egg white halves, cut side down on dish, so rounded part is on top.
- Spread blue yolk on top of egg white to make the iris of an eye and use a sliced black olive for the pupil.
Halloween party finger food, literally. Form zesty cookie dough into creepy witch fingers and use a blanched almond for the fingernail (recipe below).
Makes about 48 cookies
Ingredients
- 1 Cup butter, softened
- 1 Cup(s) powdered sugar
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 2 Tsp lemon juice
- 2 2/3 Cup(s) all-purpose flour
- 1 Tsp baking soda
- 1 Pinch of salt
- 1 Cup whole, blanched almonds
Steps
- Add butter and powdered sugar into a mixing bowl and beat until smooth. Beat in egg and lemon juice. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt and stir into mixture until combined. Cover and chill for 1 hour.
- Preheat oven to 325F. Spray baking sheets with light coat of nonstick cooking spray.
- Form fingers from 1 tablespoon of dough, by rolling dough with clean hands. Use a knife to score lines for the finger’s knuckle. Press an almond firmly into the dough for a fingernail.
- Place cookies on prepared baking sheet and cook for 20 minutes until golden brown. Cool for five minutes and place cookies on a rack to cool completely. Arrange on a spooky platter and serve.
Get smart with this Halloween party food. Fill a plastic brain mold with a pretty pink shrimp dip for the ultimate gross-out grub on Halloween (recipe below).
Makes about 100 appetizer servings.
Ingredients
- 1 Cup(s) mayonaise plus 1 tablespoon
- 1 can (10 ¾-oz.) cream of mushroom soup
- 1 package (8 oz.) of cream cheese, softened
- 1 envelope of Knox unflavored gelatin, dissolved in 1/4 cup hot water
- 1/2 Cup minced scallions
- 1 1/2 Lbs cooked bay shrimp
- 1 Tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 Tsp Worcestershire sauce
- 1 Pinch salt
Steps
- Use 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise to grease a 6-cup brain mold or a bunch of mini brain molds; set aside.
- Pour contents of soup can in a medium saucepan and heat over medium until warm. Stir in cream cheese until melted. Stir in dissolved gelatin with water until blended. Add remaining ingredients and mix well.
- Remove from heat and pour into brain mold. Chill until firm. Unmold on to a platter and serve with crackers.
Hollow an orange pepper and carve a Jack-O-Lantern face in the side.
Fill with tapenade and serve with crackers as a tasty appetizer (recipe
below).
Makes 2 1/2 cup.
Ingredients
- 1/3 Cup olive oil
- 2 (8-oz.) cans button mushrooms
- 1 Tsp dry mustard
- 1 Tbsp mustard seed
- 1/2 Tsp crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 (6-oz.) can large black olives, pitted
- 1 Cup green olives stuffed with pimentos
- 1/2 Tsp salt
- 1/2 Tsp pepper
- 3 orange bell peppers
Steps
- Cook oil, mushrooms, dry mustard, mustard seed and red pepper flakes in a small saucepan over medium heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
- Place mushroom mixture and olives in a food processor and until olives are finely minced.
- Cut tops of orange peppers and use a spoon to scrape out seed and inner membrane. Use a sharp knife to cut out Jack-O-Latern facial features in the side of the pepper.
- Spoon tapenade into Jack-O-Lantern peppers and serve with thin baguette slices or crackers in a basket.
- Make a Jack-O-Lantern face on frozen cheese pizza by using pepperoni slices cut into triangles for the eyes, an olive for a nose, and a green pepper sliver for the mouth.
- Arrange face ingredients and cook pizza according to manufacturer's instructions.
Use a pumpkin-shaped cookie cutter to stamp out cookies, sandwiches, and cheese slices to melt on burgers.
- Fill clear plastic cups with chocolate pudding and top with a layer of Oreo cookie crumbs for dirt.
- Add gummy worms coming out of the dirt.
Ice a cookie with chocolate frosting and place a Hershey's Kiss in the center to make a witch hat.
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