Easy Halloween Party Food

Mummy Dogs


This is a childhood favorite and always the most popular of our Halloween spreads! Cut crescent roll dough into thin strips and wrap around hot dogs. Bake according to crescent package directions and use ketchup or mustard for eyes. I cut my hot dogs in half to make them bite-sized.
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Quarter apples and take a wedge out of the center of each quarter. Dunk them in water with a little lemon juice to prevent browning. Use slivered almonds for teeth (I toasted mine for color and taste!) Eyes are optional. I stuck pretzel rods in and attached candy eyes with peanut butter.
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Easy peasy! Plain cheese pizza, just make a ring of cheddar around the outside edge and mozzerella in the center. Cut into wedges to make the candy corns.

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Cheesy Fingers


Super kid friendly- who doesn’t love string cheese?? Again, I cut them in half to make them kid-sized. Use the flat side of a knife to make the knuckle marks and attach slivered almonds with a dab of cream cheese for the nails. I also used a knife to shave off just a bit of the cheese at an angle before attaching the almond.
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Chocolate Cherry Mice

You’ll need marichino cherries for this one. Make sure you buy ones with stems. Drain them and dry them well with paper towells. Dip in almond bark, or chocolate bark. When they are semi dry, attach a chocolate chip for a nose, slivered almonds for ears, and little candies or sprinkles for eyes.
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Dirt n’ Worms


Another classic. Use chocolate pudding for your mud and put some crushed oreos on top for dirt. Hide those gummy worms in there for eeek factor!
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Pumpkin Sammies


This is a great staple for a Halloween party spread because it pleases both kids and adults and is something with substance! Use Halloween cookie cutters to cut your bread. I like to fill some with peanut butter or cream cheese and orange-colored jam (like peach or apricot) for the kiddos, and something more sophisticated like Teriyaki Chicken Salad for the grown ups!

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Nutty Ghosts


Nutter Butters are naturally ghost shaped, which make them perfect for dipping! Give them a bath in some almond bark and put on a couple of mini chocolate chips for eyes. And might I add that white chocolate covered Nutter Butters taste really good!

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Witches Wands


Dipped Pretzel Rods are instantly transformed into “Witches Wands” with a little Halloween pizazz! Put them in containers with candy corns to hold them up. The little mini buckets pictured are from the Target dollar section. SO cute!
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Spidey Cookies


Red hots and licorice turn oreos into creepy (but kinda cute) spiders. Shoestring licorice is hard to find these days, but Twizzlers makes “Pull-Apart” candy that works perfectly.
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Spider Web Dip


This trick works for pretty much any dip that you could pipe sour cream on top of! I always do a basic 7-Layer taco dip. Put some sour cream in a plastic baggie with the end snipped off and use it to draw a web pattern. Throw on a fake spider or two and your favorite party dip is instantly creepy!
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Slimy Worms on a Bun


My son seriously thought these looked too gross to eat-he wouldn’t even touch it! Just slice hotdogs and drop them into boiling water for just a minute or two and they’ll curl a bit. Dunk them in some bbq sauce and you have slimy worms :)
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Witch Hats


One of the easiest Halloween tricks (and treats!). Place a Hershey’s Kiss on top of a Keebler Fudge Strip Cookie and you have a little hat. Use the little tubes of frosting you can buy in the grocery store baking isle. Pipe a ring around the outside of the bottom of the kiss and press onto the cookie. It will squeeze out and make the ring around the kiss. Then pipe on the bow.

 

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Halloween Cupcakes (Sugar Free)

Cook/Prep Time

Prep time: 8 min

Cook time: 20 min

Ready in: 28 min

Yields: 12 Regular sized Cupcakes

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon Salt
• 1 teaspoon Baking soda
• 1 teaspoon Vinegar, (ADD LAST)
• 1 1/2 Cups Flour
• 1/2 cup Melted Butter, (Can Sub - Veg Oil)
• 2/3 cup Agave
• 2/3 cup Milk, (Can sub with milk substitute)
• 1/3 cup Cocoa powder

Baking Instructions

1. As always, Preheat your oven to 350 Degrees.
2. Get your paper liners and/or butter grease your pans if your not using silicone bake trays.
3. Mix Batter until it is smooth and bubbly with air, your mix should be free of nasty flour clumps and ready to pour into your molds within 4 minutes by hand or about 60 seconds by machine (on high)

Whip up some spooky frosting!

You can also make your own frosting, and use some all natural food dye to add those creepy colors kids crave! Googly eyes, and black licorice go a long way for some spooky, tasty halloween treats that are sure to satisfy and school function, home party or even at the office.
Who needs an excuse for sugar free cupcakes :)
All you need to whip up your own frosting (Icing, Ganache)
1/4 Cup of Heavy cream (per color)
3 Oz Of Butter (not melted)
2 Oz O Unsweetened Shaved Bulk Chocolate
and then a third cup of agave

Then after heating the cream and agave together, stirring often until it comes to a boil.
shut off the heat source and add your shaved chocolate to the mix
stirring until the chocolate is completely melted.
This is where the fun begins, pour your chocolate cream mix into a bowl, then add in 1 tbsp of the unmelted butter at a time and work it into the mix until the icing becomes creamy
Repeat process for each color of frosting

Marshmallows make great eyes when dotted with mini chocolate chips (can use unsweetened)

Try this great tip:

By adding a little honey to the mix you can make frosting that stays in the shape you cast it, in other words spiders legs and squid's tentacles stay where you put them and don't fall apart like most store bought icing's.
Honey is a great natural sweetener for pies, cakes, teas and almost everything you use sugar for.
Substituting sugar and eggs is a great way to share share with other family members and seniors who may not be able to handle sugar or have allergies to those types of foods.
(Remember add the wet mix to the dry mix, the vinegar and baking soda are used in place of eggs for those with egg allergies, you can replace them with 2 egg whites from large eggs if you wish).





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Homemade Witch Costume Idea for your Kid

Homemade Witch Costume Idea for your Kid

How to make a Halloween witch costume

Among the most popular Halloween symbols are the witches.

They're almost always green, disgusting, warty and use to wear pointy black hats and Halloween would not be what it is without witches.

How to make a witch with well-worn clothes:

• A black suit or
  A black skirt and a black long sleeved shirt
• A cape or a black jacket
• A conical hat
  --> you can even make your own conical hat out of a box of cereals
• A big green noose
• Some face painting

That's it!

A Few Halloween Pumpkin Poems

WHEN THE FROST IS ON THE PUNKIN

When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock,
And you hear the kyouck and gobble of the struttin' turkey-cock,
And the clackin' of the guineys and the cluckin' of the hens,
And the rooster's hallylooyer as he tiptoes on the fence;
O, it's then's the times a feller is a-feelin' at his best,
With the risin' sun to greet him from a night of peaceful rest,
As he leaves the house, bareheaded, and goes out to fed the stock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
They's something kindo' harty-like about the atmusfere
When the heat of summer's over and the cooling fall is here-
Of course we miss the flowers, and the blossoms on the trees,
And the mumble of the hummin'-birds and buzzin' of the bees;
But the air's so appetizin'; and the landscape through the haze
Of a crisp and sunny morning of the airly autumn days
Is a pictur' that no painter has the colorin' to mock-
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock.
The husky, rusty russel of the tossels of he corn,
And the raspin' of the tangled leaves, as golden as the morn;
The stubble in the furries-kindo' lonesome-like, but still
A-preachin' sermuns to us of the barns they growed to fill;
The strawstack in the medder, and the reaper in the shed;
The hosses in theyr stalls below-the clover over-head!-
O, it sets my heart a-clickin' like the tickin' of a clock,
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!
Then your apples is all gethered, and the one's a feller keeps
Is poured around the celler-floor in red and yeller heaps;
And your cider-makin's over, and your wimmern-folks is through
With their mince and apple-butter, and theyr souse and saussage, too!-
I don't know how to tell it--but ef sich a thing could be
As the Angels wantin' boardin', and they'd call around on me--
I'd want to 'commodate 'em--all the whole-indurin' flock--
When the frost is on the punkin and the fodder's in the shock!
James Whitcomb Riley (1849 - 1916 )

A NAUGHTY PUMPKIN'S FATE

A queer little pumpkin, a jolly fat fellow,
Stood close to his mother so rotund and yellow.
"What a stupid old place! how I long to aspire,"
Cried he, 'I was destined for something much higher."

'My son," said the mother, "pray do be content,
There's great satisfaction in life that's well spent!"
But he shrugged up his shoulders, this pumpkin, "tis true,
And acted just like some bad children will do.

With a shout and a whoop, in the garden they ran,
Tom and Ned, for they'd thought of the loveliest plan
To astonish their friends from the city, you see,
With a fine Jack-o"-lantern--"Ah, this one suits me!"

Neddie seized the bad pumpkin, and dug out his brains,
Til he felt so light-headed and brimful of pains;
Then two eyes, a long nise, and a mouth big and wide,
They cut in a minute, and laid him aside

Until night, when they hung him upon a stout limb,
With a candle inside; how his poor head did swim,
As they twisted him this way, then twirled him round that,
Till at last, with a crash, he fell on the ground flat.

A wreck of the once jolly, fat little fellow,
Who stood by his mother so rotund and yellow.
Just then a lean cow, who was passing that way,
Ate him up, just to finish HER "Thanksgiving Day."
           Author Unknown 

HALLOWEEN

The butcher knife goes in, first, at the top
And carves out the round stemmed lid,
The hole of which allows the hand to go
In to pull the gooey mess inside, out -
The walls scooped clean with a spoon.
A grim design decided on, that afternoon,
The eyes are the first to go,
Isosceles or trapezoid, the square nose,
The down-turned mouth with three
Hideous teeth and, sometimes,
Round ears.  At dusk it's
Lighted, the room behind it dark.
Outside, looking in, it looks like a
Pumpkin, it looks like ripeness
Is all.  Kids come, beckoned by
Fingers of shadows on leaf - strewn lawns
To trick or treat.  Standing at the open
Door, the sculptor, a warlock, drops
Penny candies into their bags, knowing
The message of winter, only the children,
Pretending to be ghosts, are real.
        Mac Hammond  (1926 - 1997 )  

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Halloween Cupcakes - Cupcake Decorating Ideas

 

Pumpkin Cupcakes

If you need a batch of quick and easy cupcakes for a Halloween party, this pumpkin design is the way to go. No need to call a bakery when you can whip up these simple treats in no time. Below you will find a list of supplies and directions for how to decorate a batch of pumpkin cupcakes.

Supplies:

• Cake mix
• Cupcake wrappers
• Orange colored icing
• Green gum drops
• Decorator tool or plastic bag

Directions:

1. Bake your desired flavor of cake mix in the oven according to the directions on the package. Let cool before applying the icing.
2. Make a batch of orange colored buttercream icing. With regular food coloring, you will need to add 3 drops of yellow and 2 drops of red. Repeat the drops if you desire a brighter shade of orange.
3. Fill the decorator tool or plastic bag with the orange icing and swirl around each cupcake. When you reach the middle, continue to squeeze out the icing and slowly lift up to create the pumpkin shape. Top the center of each cupcake with a green gum drop and enjoy!