Halloween Recipes

Halloween Party Recipes, halloween party food

 
Spooky Sandwiches

Halloween pastry cutters are becoming more readily available.  Use these to cut pumpkin, bat, witch or ghost shapes from sandwiches.  This is a quick and very easy way to adapt normal sandwiches into Halloween Party Food.

 
Slimy Bug Sludge

Make green (and / or yellow) jelly in separate bowls.  Once set turn out onto a large plate or a clean cauldron and mash together.  Add some jelly worms and other bug sweets to your sludge and stir them in well.  Serve with a ladle – this is particularly effective from a cauldron.

 

Witches Nails

A great use of your left over pumpkin seeds!
  
Ingredients: 
150g raw, washed pumpkin seeds from your carved out pumpkin
1 tbsp butter, melted
1 tsp crushed garlic
1/4 tsp salt
1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

  
Instructions:
1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/gas mark 4.
2. Combine all the ingredients in a bowl and spread evenly in a roasting tray and bake, stirring occasionally, until lightly toasted. Cool and serve.
 

Toffee Apples

A quick and easy version of the kids' favourite 
 
Ingredients:  
5 medium-sized dessert apples
450g soft caramel sweets
2 tbsp water

  
Instructions:
1. Wash and thoroughly dry the apples, and stick a wooden skewer through the stem end.

2. Slowly heat the caramel sweets in a double boiler or over a bain marie until melted and smooth. Dip the apples in the toffee and swirl until completely coated.

3. Lay on greaseproof paper or stand upright in a flower holder then place in the fridge to harden.
 
  

Crack and Crunch Bones! 

Bone shaped meringues that crack and crunch as you eat them!

Ingredients:

4 Large egg whites
2 cups incing sugar

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 250F (130C, Gas Mark 1/2).

1. In a large bowl, beat the egg whites until stiff. Gradually add the sugar, one tablespoon at a time. Keep beating and adding sugar until you have a meringue.  

Line baking trays with paper. Using a piping bag with a plain nozzle pipe a straight meringue bone line (approximately 4 inches long). Pipe a meringue ball at the end of each bone. If necessary shape bones further using a small knife.

Bake for approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes or until bones have dried out. 

Remove from oven and let cool on paper

halloweenishere.com has some great halloween recipes.  Very American ingredients but some innovative ideas.