Spooky Halloween Party Food

1. First is the Brown Spider. For this, you will need a few Ritz crackers, pretzel sticks, a pack of Hershey kisses, a tube or red and white cake frosting. Now take one cracker and spread it with some peanut butter. Then you put 4 pretzels and place this on each side to act as the spider's legs. Put another cracker on top to cover it up then spray it with cake frosting.

2. For the vegetarians out there, you can serve them Fungi Salad. For this, you will need spinach cream, lettuce, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes and red onions. Put the spinach in the refrigerator for 30 minutes to cool while you wash the other vegetables in cold water. Dry the lettuce using a paper towel and then cut the other vegetables into small pieces. Put this into bowl and then pour in cooled spinach cream.

3. Next is the Meatloaf Mice. For this, you will need some catsup, ground beef, turkey, onions, carrots, uncooked spaghetti noodles, spaghetti sauce, raisins, oatmeal, salt and paper.

When you have all these ingredients, start by cutting the carrot horizontally to make some mouse ears and vertically to make the mouse tail then steam until it becomes crisp tender.

Put the meat loaf on a baking sheet after you mix the rest of the ingredients and shaping it into a mice shaped loaf before throwing this into the oven. Bake for 45 minutes and when it is finished, cut little slits so you can put in the carrot ears and tail. Break the uncooked spaghetti noodles into small pieces so this will be the nose of the mouse. Pour the cooked spaghetti sauce and serve.

4. If you carved a pumpkin, then this recipe will make the most of the contents you removed since you are going to use it to make a pumpkin cake. Aside from the pumpkin, you will need some eggs, sugar, oil, all purpose flour, salt, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon, nut or raisins.

Put the eggs and sugar into the food processor until it is smooth. Add the other ingredients and stir until it is cooked. When it's done, turn the batter into two round cake molds that are greased and lightly floured. Put this in the oven at 350F for about 40 minutes. Unmold these and then stack it together. Put orange tinted frosting on top and then put it on the dinner table.

5. As for refreshments, you can serve sewage slurpers. You will need chocolate chip ice cream, chocolate syrup and club soda.

When the ice cream is easy to scoop, put this into glasses at least halfway. Now, pour in 3 tablespoons of chocolate syrup. Last, fill it to the top with club soda and stir well with a spoon. You can top it off with an unwrapped tootsie roll and a straw.

Whether you're hosting a Halloween party or just have a pack of hungry ghouls, it's fun to make creepy Halloween snacks. Here are five ideas that are sure to please.

1. Worms in Dirt

Ingredients

Orange or green Jello
Gummy worms
Crushed Oreo cookies
Clear plastic cups

Instructions

Prepare Jello as directed on package. Place a gummy worm in the bottom of each plastic cup. Pour Jello on top of the gummy worm, filling cup to about ½ to 1 inch from the top. Refrigerate until Jello is set. Add a layer of crumbled cookies to the top of each cup. Place a few gummy worms on top.

2. Halloween Snack Mix

Ingredients

Count Chocula or Frankenberry cereal (found in some stores around Halloween)
Candy corn
Raisins
Mini marshmallows
Small pretzels
Chocolate chips

Instructions

Mix ingredients in a large bowl or plastic pumpkin in proportions of your choice.

3. Jack O'Lantern Sandwiches

Ingredients

Whole wheat bread
Sliced ham, turkey or other sandwich meat
Sliced cheese
Mayonnaise

Instructions

Toast bread lightly. Assemble sandwiches, making sure the mayonnaise is on the bottom and the cheese on top. Use a pumpkin cookie cutter to cut a pumpkin shape out of each one. Remove the top slice of bread, and use a small triangular cutter or a knife to cut out eyes, nose and mouth. Replace the top piece of bread.

4. Fruit Eyeballs

Ingredients

Pitted dates
Cream cheese
Raisins or dried cranberries

Slice each date lengthwise. Stuff with cream cheese. Place a raisin or dried cranberry in the center for the pupil.

5. Witch Finger Cookies

Ingredients

1 c. softened butter
1 c. sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1 tsp. almond extract
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 ¾ c. flour
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
¾ c. whole blanched almonds
Red paste-type food coloring

Instructions

Preheat oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit. Mix dry ingredients except whole almonds. In a large bowl, beat butter, sugar, egg, and almond and vanilla extracts. Beat in dry ingredients. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes.

While waiting, dilute some of the red food coloring with water. Brush onto the almonds.

Remove one-fourth of the dough from the refrigerator at a time. Roll heaping teaspoons of dough into a finger shape, making them somewhat smaller than you want the finished cookie to be. Press an almond into one end as a fingernail. Squeeze the center of each cookie in slightly, and use a knife to make slashes for knuckles.

Place cookies on a greased cookie sheet. Bake 20 to 25 minutes or until pale golden brown. Let cool on wire rack.

Getting ready for a howling Halloween party this year? Spruce up your party this year with some icky, but yummy party food. Here are some fun food ideas for your ghostly Halloween party:

Snot cubes
Refrigerate yellow and green Jello (any flavors) in ice cube trays. Serve chilled.

Worms in snot
Make snot cubes, as directed above, out of Jello. Insert gummy worms in each cube of Jello then refrigerate. Serve chilled.

Bad apples
Using a small, sharp knife cut a small, round hole in one side of the top of an apple. Insert a gummy worm inside the hole. Create display of "bad apples" in a wooden bucket.

Monster Mash
In a large bowl, combine the following ingredients:

* 10 cups popcorn
* 1 pound plain M&M's
* 1-14 oz. jar dry roasted peanuts
* 1 cup raisins (optional)
* 1 cup Reece's pieces (found in baking isle by chocolate chips)

Bowl of Brains
Scramble several eggs. To get the gray brain color, mix in green, red, and blue food coloring as you beat the eggs before cooking them.

Buggy Ice Cubes
Insert gummy worms or raisins (for bugs) in ice trays with water and freeze. Insert frozen buggy ice cubes in your bowl of party punch.

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Beverages

You can always count on everyone being thirsty. All you need is some ordinary drinks dressed up a bit.

Punch - One way to wet their whistle is with punch. No matter what the flavor, you want it to look as scary as possible. Use food coloring to darken the punch (black cauldron bubble) or brighten it (bucket of blood punch). To add to the frightful appearance, fashion eyeballs, fingers, or what have you, out of fruit and ice cream and float your ghoulish creations on top of the punch.

Sodas - Ordinary sodas can take on the ghoulish for one night. Use decorative plastic Halloween cups for your sodas. Add different colored whipped cream to the top and orange, black and purple straws. For more adult beverages, add new labels to the cans and bottles in keeping with the theme of the night (for instance Witch's Brew, Dracula's Ale, Lager Of Lost Souls, or Blood Wine).

Finger Foods
In this case, we really may mean "finger foods." Start with these ideas and see how spooky you can get.

Witch fingers - This is one of the most popular ideas. You can use sugar cookie dough and shape it onto long, thin strips to resemble fingers. While the cookies cool, press half an almond in one end to look like a fingernail. Use red gel to fashion some dripping blood if you like.

Cupcake creations - If you are short on time, buy store cupcakes and add decorative magic. Black or orange icing plus sprinkles or pumpkin candy works for most kids. For older children, add Gummi worms, dirt sprinkles, and skeleton drawings in the icing or licorice strands to become spider legs.

Scary molds - Jell-O molds have been around for a long time. For Halloween use brain molds and also those for creeping hands or skulls. Instead of gelatin, try cheese to fashion the body part along with creepy add-ins like slivered almonds for scales, strawberry or raspberry glaze for blood. Then serve your scary snack with crackers.

You can get as creepy or disgusting as you want with the menu. The scarier, the better. The best part is that the recipes are easy, with many only requiring you use what you already have on hand or can buy cheaply. These Halloween snacks are creepy creativity at its finest!