Editor's note: There are some really gory recipes here
for your Halloween enjoyment!
By Rachael
Willerton
Instead of the usual sandwiches at Halloween, why not surprise the kids
with these spooky snacks!
Pumpkin crackers
A round cracker with a slice of red cheese cut into circle on top.
Decorate to look like a pumpkin with either soft cheese piped or a white
cheese cut into shapes.
Skull sandwiches
Cut two slices of bread into skull shapes. Cut eye and mouth shapes into
the top slice. Spread with butter. Spread the bottom slice thickly with
jam and place the top slice on letting the jam ooze through the gaps.
Devil egg eyes
Slice a hard boiled egg in two. Scoop out the yolk and in a separate
bowl mix in some mayonnaise. Spoon egg mixture back into boiled egg. To
make the eye look bloodshot use tomato ketchup.
Ice scream eyes
Scope of raspberry ripple ice cream with a cherry on top. Add strawberry
sauce for more blood.
Bat wings
Arrange chicken wings on a plate to look like bats.
Dried scabs
Simply a bowl of dried fruit. Red berries and raisins look good.
Blood and guts
Make up a red jelly and allow to set. Chop up jelly and add red fruits
for a gory look.
Fangs
Slices of peeled apple with a strawberry (blood) sauce.
Witches fingers
Simply cocktail sausages with red or green peppers. Cut a small (1cm)
slice out of the top of the sausage to form a shelf for the finger nail
to rest. Cut the pepper into finger nail shapes and add a bit of soft
cheese on the back to stick it onto the sausage.
Witch heads
Cover a fairy cake with green butter icing (or add green food colouring
to cake mixture - a lot less messy and time consuming). Cover an ice
cream cone in melted chocolate and allow to set. Add a little spare
butter icing to the base of the cone to stick it to a chocolate
digestive to form a hat. Cut up some liquorice laces and add to the top
of the fairy cake to form hair. Place the hat on top. Use dolly mixtures
for eyes and pipe black icing to form the rest of the face.
Blood
Any red fruit juice or squash.
Mud
Chocolate milkshake, mixed with ice cream and crushed chocolate flakes.
Lastly why not serve up crisps in a bowl with plastic skeleton or bats
for decoration.
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