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How to Make the Nastiest Nibbles for Halloween

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Original ideas for Halloween party food

Just a few ideas for seasonal food that will tickle the fancy of your kids, and they are so simple that they can join in the fun and help to make them. You don't nead fancy equipment or loads of ingredients, just a few items from the store cupboard, a bit of time and loads of imagination. Get the children gathered around for a Halloween Nasty Nibbles.

GHOSTS ON TOAST

OK, so it's only fried or poached eggs on toast, but the children like the name so much they ask for it. A couple of dabs of tomato ketchup, which they can apply themselves, and you have a healthy and funny Halloween snack.

What you will need for the other nibbles


  • Coloured marzipan, pink, white and green or other halloween colours

  • Food colouring. Brown or black colour is needed but you can mix this if you have red and green or red, yellow and blue

  • Dates and prunes stoned

  • Flaked almonds

  • Liquorish (I forgot to put this in the pic!)

  • A fine paint brush

  • A container to mix the colour in

  • Things to make eyes - cake decorations, little sweets etc

A Can of worms

To make your worms cut off a piece of marzipan about the size of your thumb nail and roll it into a ball between the palms of your hand. Then, with the ball on one palm, gently roll it with the fingers of the other. You can see how my son is doing it below. If you get lumps in one place, gently roll them untill the whole worm is even. Make points at each end and there you are, ready for painting.

Mix up a dark brown or black colour, and holding your brush vertically, make little flicking movements to draw on the segments of your worm. Add eyes, (I know worms don't have eyes, but anyway ....) and there you go.

Sugary skulls

To make a skull use white marzipan. Roll it into a ball and squash the lower part of the ball between thumb and forefinger to make a 'chin'. Use the other end of the paintbrush to hollow out eyes and then using a shrp knife make a cut with a knife for the mouth. Pull the knife down to open the mouth up and then paint in the eyes, nose and teeth with the black food colour.

Blind date mice

Stuff your stoned dates with pink marzipan. Then, using the same techniques as you used for the worms, make the tails and push into the date. Make little ears by rolling tiny balls of pink marzipan and then squashing them into mouse-ear shapes with your fingers. Cut tiny slits in the dates and insert the ears. Finally, make eyes out of white or green marzipan or silver ball cake decorations and there you are, your three blind date mice. I put eyes onto mine, which was a mistake I think.

Squirmy liquorish spiders and fruit flies

Spiders

I bought a packet of liquorish rolls and used one of these for the body. I unrolled some of the liquorish and snipped this into strips for the legs and pushed them into the bodies with the help of matchsticks and toothpicks. Then I made marzipan heads and spotted on the eyes.

Fruit flies

I used dates for the fruit flies stuffed with pink marzipan. I cut then make a vertical cut along the back of the date to reveal the marzipan and make the date look like a beetles open back. I used flakes of almonds for the wings, liquorish for the legs and marzipan for the eyes. these are a bit fiddly for young children but my 12 year old son loved making them, and eating them. The dog ate the rest of my marzipan when we were not looking - so watch out!

And here are your finished nibbles

Use your imagination to add to this list. you could make all sorts of beasties and insects, monsters, bones, whole skelletons and a host of other fun things. Get the kids to make suggestions and I hope you enjoy making and eating these nibbles as much as we did.

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  • SereneSea Nov 25, 2011 @ 2:20 am | delete
    That's great , simple nibbles, scary and sweet.
  • JoshK47 Nov 4, 2011 @ 9:00 am | delete
    Awesome! I especially love ghosts on toast, but that may just be my love for alliteration.
  • SaintFrantic Nov 2, 2011 @ 4:24 am | delete
    That's just great.Wonder to eat it or to just watch it.
  • lestroischenes Nov 2, 2011 @ 8:43 am | delete
    Well, the kids know what to do with them! Thanks for dropping by SaintFrantic!
  • lestroischenes Nov 2, 2011 @ 8:43 am | delete
    Well, the kids know what to do with them! Thanks for dropping by SaintFrantic!
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