Spooky Halloween Meal

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Recipes and Ideas for a Creepy Halloween Dinner

Our Halloween tradition for the last six years has been to create a Spooky Halloween Meal for my grade-school-aged daughters. We always hold the Halloween dinner at my parents house.

This lens contains the menu of items and recipes that we have used over the years in making our child-friendly Halloween Dinner. Also included are several bonus recipes, with link and even more ideas to help you plan your own kid-friendly Halloween Dinner.

Our Halloween Tradition - A Spooky Halloween Meal

Over the past 6 years we've developed the tradition of going over to my parents' house and making a Spooky Halloween Meal.

The girls are finally getting old enough to help now with the cooking and the decorating. We usually hang up a spider web with spiders and streamers.

For food we start with some of our favorites and maybe add in something a bit different every year.

The menu here is the original one that I printed out for everyone the first year we prepared a spooky Halloween Dinner. I have included the recipes for our Halloween Meal.

Over the years my cooking techniques with the girls have evolved to emphasize two things: fast and healthy while we still have some fun.

Why a Spooky Halloween Meal Tradition?

The Tradition of celebrating Halloween by preparing a Spooky Halloween Meal at my parents started because we need to vacate our house on Halloween to escape the Trick or Treaters.

Since I've been teaching nutrition, I don't believe I should be passing out candy. Since we don't want the house to be egged, I don't try to make a teaching point and pass out healthy Halloween treats.

It has been easier and a lot more relaxing to spend a fun evening making and eating creepy foods over at my parents.

Our Spooky Halloween Menu

A Spooky Halloween Meal

  • 1Appetizers
    * Chopped Fingers
    * Barbed Porcupines - Hedgehogs Spikes
    * Iguana Eyes and Blood Drops
    * Caramel Crud and Axed Apples
    * Bonus: Wrapped Mummies
  • 2Salad & Vegetables
    * Scythed Grass with Pumpkin Parts
    * Sea Greens Salad with Toxic Mushrooms & Jack-o-Lantern Rings
    * Bonus: Frankenstein or Goblin Brains
    * Bonus: Zombie Brain and Heart
  • 3Main Meals - Squid Inspired
    * Octopus (Squid) Stew
    * Bonus - Black Pasta or Black Pasta Salad
  • 4Dessert
    * Wormy Apple Cobbler (Baked Apples)
    * Grave Digger's Dirt Cake
    * Bonus: Severed Lady Fingers
    * Bonus: Halloween Cookies
    * Booberry Brew
    * Cauldron Coffee

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Appetizers

Chopped Fingers

Bread sticks

Barbed Porcupines - Hedgehog Spikes

Cheese and Pretzels

Iguana Eyes and Blood Drops

Pomegranate Airls and Grapes

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Caramel Crud with Axed Apples

Caramel Sauce with Apple Slices

Halloween Serving Dishes and Trays

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Halloween Serving Platters

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More Devilish Halloween Treats

Two Devilishly Good Sandwich Spreads for Halloween
Devilishly Good Sandwich Spreads for Halloween Photo Print
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These Devilish Spreads look to be bits of diced ham and slices of peppers on top of a sandwich spread. They have been made more festive by putting them into Halloween cups and decorating with bugs.

Salad & Vegetables

Scythed Grass with Pumpkin Parts

French Cut Green Beans and Baby Carrots

Sea Greens Salad with Toxic Mushrooms & Jack-o-Lantern Rings

Mixed Green Salad

Bonus: Frankenstein or Goblin Brains

Cauliflower and Broccoli Flowerettes

Frankenstein or Goblin brains can be either of two vegetables, both of which look a bit like brains.

    For white goblin or mummy brains, use cauliflower.

    For green Frankenstein or Wicked Witch if the West brains, use broccoli.

Break Cauliflower and/or Broccoli into flowerettes.

To enhance the "brain" effect of the food, steam the vegetables whole rather than chopping into pieces.

If possible, serve the broccoli on a stem, so it looks like the brain on a brainstem

Images Cauliflower by Helmut Gevert and Broccoli by Robert Owen-Wahl

Bonus: Zombie Brain or Heart

Molded Jello

You can serve up edible 'Brain' or 'Heart' with your Halloween Meal with these fun molds.

Fill the mold with your favorite flavor of gelatin or jello.

    For Red Heart Jello - Use Strawberry or Cherry Flavor.

    For a Pink Brain - Mix some sour cream or vanilla yogurt into the strawberry or cherry jello mix.

    For a Gray Brain - Mix red and green jello flavors add sour cream or vanilla yogurt to lighten.

    For a Green Brain - Start with lime jello. Add dark fruit to make the brain a bit creepier.
Brain and Heart Molds available at Amazon.

Brain Molds

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Candy Brain Molds on Amazon

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Heart Molds (Anatomic) on Amazon

Serve up a human heart as part of your Spooky Halloween Meal.
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Main Course

Octopus or Squid Stew

Whole Pea Soup with Sliced Hot Dogs

A RocketMom Lens for Octopus Stew

The Octopus Stew lens was created as a new Food and Cooking recipe lens as part of the Rocket Mom 10 Week 1 Challenge.
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Black Worms with Blood Sauce and Brain Bits

Black Pasta with Marinara Sauce and Meatballs

Black Worms and Bones

Squid Ink Black Pasta Salad

Black Pasta or Squid Ink Pasta

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Bone Cookie Cutters

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Dessert

Wormy Apple Cobbler or Barfing Baked Apples

Baked Apples with Spices

Grave Digger's Dirt Cake or Graveyard Cake

Chocolate Cake or Cupcakes with Decorations

Serving Bowls for Your Gravediggers Cake

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Graveyard Cakes, Grave Digger's Cakes and Worm Cakes

Here are just some of the many different variations on Graveyard Cake or Gravediggers Cake or Dirt Cake. Another Halloween variation is a Worm Cake.

Pictures used under a Creative Commons license from theranonagin, shawnzrossi, bennmoto, kkimpel and Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake.

Graveyard Cake by therangonagin
Gummy worm/dirt cake by shawnzrossi
The Garden Cake by bennymoto
Graveyard Cake by kkimpel
Lila's prize-winning dirt cupcakes, Winner, Exotic Decoration by Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake
Graveyard Cake by kkimpel
curated content from Flickr

Other Graveyard Cake and Dirt Cake Recipes

Spooky Graveyard Cake Redux
Spooky Graveyard Cake Recipe.
A different version of the Graveyard Cake
A different version of the Graveyard Cake this one with Ghosts!
Dirt cake/cupcakes
Recipe for Dirt Cake and a variation for dirt cupcakes from JustJENN recipes.

A Featured Lens on Making Graveyard Cake

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Bonus: Severed Lady Fingers

Lady Fingers and Assorted Berries

Another Lady Finger Recipe - Booberry Treat

This mixture of black cherries, strawberries and frozen mixed berries molded with lady fingers makes for a berrilicious, booberry treat.
Lady Finger Summer Pudding
Another recipe using berries and lady fingers.

Lady Fingers

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Halloween Lady's Finger Treat

Sugar Cookie Fingers

Make Sure You have all of your fingers when you leave.

This version can be made following the Chopped Fingers recipe and using sugar cookies in place of the bread sticks. Add some red icing after the cookies have baked to simulate blood.

Image modified from Dan McKay's Lady Finger. Creative Commons.

Bonus: Haunted Halloween Cookies

Sugar Cookies or Chocolate Sugar Cookies

Halloween Cookie Cutters

Halloween and Bone Cookie Cutters make it easy to create Halloween-themed shapes of bread, cheese, cookies etc.
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More Halloween Cookie Cutters

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Booberry Brew

Blueberry Flavored Sprite Punch

Halloween Punch Bowl Set

Halloween Skull & Bones Punch Bowl with Ladle, Black and Silver

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This Halloween Skull and Bones Ceramic Punch Bowl features multiple skeleton heads attached to the side which jiggle when moved. The silver ladle handle is boned-shaped.

A unique way to serve your Booberry Brew.

Blue Witch's Brew

Blueberry Smoothie

How to Make Floating Hands

Green Halloween Punch with Frozen Hands

Green Halloween Punch with Frozen Hands
Ginger Ale and Sprite punch with frozen hands.

Hand Molds on Amazon

Serve up some severed hands with these hand molds.
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Cauldron Coffee

Strong Coffee

Black Cauldron Stock Pot

T-Fal Specialty 12-Quart Nonstick Stock Pot, Black

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Serve your Cauldron Coffee in this black cauldron pot. When Halloween is over you can use this 12-quart Stock Pot for cooking soups and stocks.

Halloween Mugs for a Spooky Drink

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