Recipes for Making the Best Halloween Party Food

Halloween is an exciting holiday for both children and adults. If you’re throwing a Halloween party, food is imperative. Have fun with it! Costumes aren’t the only means of dressing up, dress up your cupcakes with plastic spiders or make eerie vampire blood punch. Here are a few recipes that make great spooky Halloween treats!

Ghoulish Eyeballs
Recipe makes approximately 9 dozen eyeballs

3 cups lemon gelatin (can be sugar-free)
1 cup hot water
½ cup miniature marshmallows
1 cup pineapple juice
8 ounces cream cheese (can be lowfat)
1 cup mayonnaise (can be lowfat/fat free)

Dissolve gelatin in water in a double boiler. Add marshmallows and stir until melted. Remove mixture from heat. Add pineapple juice and cream cheese. Beat until blended well. Cool for five minutes and stir in mayo. If you have rounded ice cube trays, poor mixture in and leave to set in the refrigerator. Otherwise, poor mixture into a ceramic dish and leave to set. When the mixture is set, use a melonballer to scoop balls onto wax paper and set aside to decorate. To decorate use liquid food coloring and paint on irises and pupils. If in a hurry, dip the eyeball into food coloring to approximate an iris and only paint the pupil.

Salami and Cream Cheese Wraps (Witches Fingers)
Make as many as needed

Miniature sweet pickles
Cream Cheese
Sliced Salami
Toothpicks

Cut pickles into fourths lengthwise. Pickle lengths should be relatively similar to the length of the salami. Spread a thin layer of cream cheese on the salami and fold around the pickle. Secure with a tooth pick. Many party stores have Halloween inspired toothpicks for a decorative touch to this spooky snack.

Spooky Halloween Sandwiches
Make as many as needed

Sliced bread
Sandwich filling of choice
Condiments of choice
Metal Halloween inspired cookie cutters

Make sandwiches to taste, but make sure that the ingredients stick well so the sandwich doesn’t fall apart after cutting. After the sandwich is prepared, use a metal cookie cutter (plastic ones often wont cut through sandwich contents) to cut the edges of the bread off. Sandwiches can be secured with a toothpick if needed.

Boogers on a Stick (Here’s a gross one!)
Makes 3 dozen

8oz jar of Cheese whiz
3-4 drops Green food coloring
3 dozen Pretzel sticks

Melt cheese in microwave according to directions on jar or can. Allow to cool slightly. Add food coloring until cheese turns a gross booger-like green. Dip pretzels, one at a time, into cheese. Dip every twenty seconds until desired booger-effect is reached. Place on wax paper to cool.

Chocolate Blood Ooze Cupcakes

8 oz Cream Cheese
1 egg
1/3 cup Sugar
Red Food Coloring
1 pkg Chocolate Cake Mix

Prepare chocolate cake mix using directions on the box. Combine cream cheese, egg, and sugar and blend well. Add two drops of red food coloring and mix. Add food coloring until desired shade is reached. Fill cupcake liners half way with cupcake batter. Place one teaspoon of filling in the center of each. As the cupcakes bake, the batter will rise to surround the filling. Bake at 350 degrees for approximately 25 minutes.

Bug Juice
(Repeat recipe until desired amount is reached)

1 can green Hi-C
2-2liter Sprite
1 container Green Sherbet

Mix Hi-C and Sprite. Add Sherbet to keep mixture cool. Gummy worms add a nice touch. Make mixture with red fruit punch to make vampire’s blood!

Now you have enough recipes to make an entire Halloween feast! Get cooking, and have fun!

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