Halloween Food And Snacks

Halloween is the only holiday where it’s okay if your food looks kind of scary. If you're planning a costume theme party, serve food that matches your theme.

Popcorn Pumpkins - In microwave melt 1/4 c. oleo and a 10 1/2 oz. bag of mini marshmallows on high for 1-2 min. to melt oleo and puff marshmallows. Stir in a 4 serving size orange Jell-O mix well. Pour over 3 qts of popped popcorn (12 cups) Have children grease their hands well and form the popcorn into a pumpkin. Use a green spearmint as a leaf and choc chips for the face. they taste good and are awesome to make.

Ghost Sandwiches - You'll need white bread, sandwich fixings, mini chocolate chips, and ghost cookie cutter. Use your cookie cutter to cut out ghost shapes from the white bread. Use deli meats/cheeses, p b & jelly or cheese spread to fill sandwiches. Use the mini-chocolate chips to add eyes and a mouth to the ghost.

Ghosts in the Graveyard – Use instant chocolate pudding, Oreo cookie crumbs, Cool Whip, cookies, icing, mini M&M's. Make a batch of instant chocolate pudding. Spread it into a pan. Sprinkle with Oreo cookie crumbs. Decorate cookies with icing to look like tombstones. Stick the "tombstones" into the pudding. Then use blobs of whip cream to make ghosts in the graveyard. Use mini M&M s for eyes.

Rice Krispie Pumpkins - Make rice krispies and add orange food coloring to the marshmallows. When cool roll into balls and then decorate faces on them. You can use shoelace licorice for a mouth, green gumdrop for the stem, M&M's or red hots for the eyes and nose or whatever you choose to use.

Spiders snack – Use ritz crackers, peanut butter, stick pretzels and raisins. Put a dab of peanut butter on a cracker. Break pretzels into approximately 3" pieces, and stick three on one side of the peanut butter and three on the other side for legs. Put two raisins at one end of cracker for eyes.

Witches Brew - Mix up a batch of lemonade from concentrate.  Add green food coloring to the lemonade to give it a spooky look.  Get a plastic witches cauldron and place a piece of dry ice in it.  Pour the "brew" over the dry ice and watch your kids delight!  

Non-Alcoholic – Buy soda syrups in dark colors like blackberry, blueberry, cola or black cherry. Mix with club soda, pour into a martini glass, and garnish with a peeled grape “eyeball.”

Bloody Mary - In a cocktail shaker, add vodka, tomato juice, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, ice and salt and pepper to taste. Shake well, then strain into a tall glass filled with ice cubes. Garnish with celery and lemon wedge.