Fun recipes for Halloween party treats
It’s the spookiest time of the year again! The whole family prepares for the Halloween day decorating the house and front yard, preparing Halloween costumes and planning Halloween parties. We picked some of the scariest and fun yet family-friendly recipes for kids and/or family Halloween party. Make sure you involve kids in preparation of these Halloween party treats –they are fun to make and fun to eat!
- Spooky Spider
What you need:
· 2 tbspn smooth peanut butter
· 2 tbspn icing sugar
· 2 tbspn graham cracker crumbs
· 2 tbspn coconut
· liquorice
· raisins or dried blueberries
Preparation:
To make one Halloween spider: mix peanut butter, sugar and crumbs together and form a ball. Divide the ball to make 2 balls, one slightly smaller than the other. Roll balls in coconut and place smaller ball on top of larger one (the smaller ball with be the head). and Add 8 liquorice legs and 8 raisin eyes.
- Apples with Worms
What you need:
· 6 large apples - Rome Beauty, Golden Delicious, or Jonagold
· 1/2 cup raisins or currants
· 1/2 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped
· 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
· 1/4 cup water
· 2 tablespoons butter
· 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
· 6 wiggly candy worms
Preparation:
Preheat oven to 375°F. Wash apples. Remove cores to 1/2 inch of the bottom of the apples removing the seeds and saving the top of each apple. Make the holes about 3/4-inch to an inch wide. Alternatively, core apples from blossom ends, leaving stem ends intact.
In a small bowl, combine the sugar, cinnamon, currants/raisins, and pecans/walnuts. Place apples in a baking pan. Stuff each apple with this mixture. Top with a dot of butter and place the top with a stem. Add boiling water to the baking pan
Bake, uncovered, until apples are tender when pierced and skin begins to crack, 30 to 40 minutes.
Remove apples from oven; cool in pan at least 10 minutes or let cool to room temperature. Set each apple in a small bowl and baste the apple with the pan juices.
In the top of each apple, cut a hole large enough for one of the candy worms and tuck one end into each apple, leaving most of the worm dangling.
You can serve with whipped topping or whipped cream.
- Vampire Punch with Floating Hands
What you need:
· 1 litre bottle of sparkling cider, chilled
· 1 large bottle of cranberry juice cocktail, chilled
· 1-liter bottle club soda or sparkling water, chilled
· For Spice Syrup
· 2 cinnamon sticks
· 5 whole cloves
· 3 tablespoons finely chopped peeled fresh ginger
· 1/3 cup water
· 1/3 cup sugar
Preparation:
Make spice syrup inch: In a small saucepan bring syrup ingredients to a boil, stirring until sugar is dissolved, and simmer, covered, 5 minutes. Let syrup cool. Syrup can be made 1 week ahead and chilled, kept in a covered container or bottle in the refrigerator
To make the Vampire punch: in the large bowl combine Punch ingredients and strain syrup through a fine sieve or cheese cloth into punch. Stir punch and add lots of ice (see our Halloween ice-making tip below). Makes about 13 cups.
To make floating hands: use food grade plastic gloves (get some in a dollar store, and make sure to wash before using; these gloved are made of clear plastic and have to talk on them). Fill gloves with water (you may use mix of water and cranberry juice), tie them up and freeze. When frozen, remove glove and let them float in your punch bowl!
- Bloody Popcorn
What you need:
· Popcorn
· For salty popcorn - red coloured season salt
· For spicy popcorn – paprika
· For sweet popcorn - icing sugar and cinnamon
Preparation:
Prepare popcorn. Using butter spray, lightly spray the popcorn and mix as you spray so it's all covered. Sprinkle with paprika / red coloured season salt / icing sugar and cinnamon. Mix as you do this to coat all kernels.
- Eyeball Potion
What you need:
· 8 ounces frozen whipped topping, thawed
· blueberries or raisins
· 1 1/2 cups boiling water
· 1 large package gelatine - any red flavor
· 1 cup cold water
· ice cubes
Preparation:
Using a small ice-cream scoop, place 2 scoops whipped topping into each of 10 dessert dishes for "eyeballs." Place a blueberry or raisin in each scoop for the "pupil." Freeze 30 minutes, or until firm
Meanwhile, stir boiling water into gelatine in large bowl for at least two minutes until completely dissolved
Mix cold water and ice cubes to make 2 1/2 cups. Add to gelatine, stirring until slightly thickened. Remove any remaining ice
Pour about 1/2 cup gelatine around the two "eyeballs" in each dish, leaving the top of the "eyeballs" exposed and refrigerate for 1-1/2 hours, or until firm
- Buggy Swamp Slime
What you need:
· green Jell-O
· gummy bugs
Preparation:
Make green Jell-O. Put some of it in clear plastic containers and put some aside. When the jello starts to solidify, add various gummy bugs. Beat the rest of the jello to a froth and add to the top of the slime. Let set.
- Witches' Fingers
What you need:
· 1 cup Butter, softened
· 1 cup Icing sugar
· 1 Egg
· 1 tsp Almond extract
· 1 tsp Vanilla
· 2 2/3 cups Flour
· 1 tsp Baking soda or powder (optional)
· 1 tsp Salt
· 3/4 cup Almonds, whole blanched
· 1 Tube red decorator gel (optional)
Preparation:
Gross everyone out with these creepy cookies.
In bowl, beat together butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla. Beat in flour, baking soda (optional), and salt. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Working with one quarter of the dough at a time and keeping remainder refrigerated, roll heaping teaspoonful of dough into finger shape for each cookie. Press almond firmly into 1 end for nail. Squeeze in centre to create knuckle shape. Using paring knife, make slashes in several places to form knuckle.
Place on lightly greased baking sheets; bake in 325F (160C) oven for 20-25 minutes or until pale golden. Let cool and remove from baking sheets. You may want to decorate with red decorator gel to create "blood" effect.
Makes about 60 fingers
Enjoy!
Web site used to collect the recipes:
http://food.ivillage.com/recipefinder
http://southernfood.about.com
www.halloweenkitchen.com
www.britta.com
www.cooks.com