Halloween Food

The highlight of any Halloween get together is spooky food. The following are some easy ideas for snacks to scare and delight your Halloween guests:

Mummy Dogs
Ingredients:
Hot Dogs
Canned crescent rolls
Procedure:
Prepare hot dogs in the usual manner. Unwrap crescent rolls, and separate each triangle of dough. Wrap each hot dog using one dough triangle leaving a small piece of the hot dog exposed. Place mummies on a cookie sheet and bake according to the instructions on the crescent roll package. Remove mummies from the oven and let cool. With a butter knife cut slits onto the exposed hot dog forming two eyes and a mouth.

Monster Heads
Ingredients:
Asparagus Stalks
Stuffed Peppers
Cheese
Stuffed Olives
Tooth Picks
Procedure:
Prepare stuffed peppers in the usual manner (cut off tops of peppers, fill with usual stuffed pepper filling - rice, veggies, ground turkey or beef etc., bake.) Cover tops of peppers with shredded cheese and place in oven until cheese melts. Steam asparagus stalks. Polk two stalks into the top of each pepper forming antennae. Take two olives per pepper and attach with tooth picks forming eyes. With a butter knife cut a slit in each pepper forming a mouth.

Worm Cakes
Ingredients:
Chocolate Cupcakes
Gummy Worms
Frosting
Procedure:
Prepare cupcakes in the usual manner. Cut a small hole in the top of each cupcake, and hollow out the middle (leaving the bottom intact.) Fill the cupcake with gummy worms, frost.

Bat Wings
Ingredients:
Beef Jerky
Procedure:
Place beef jerky in a bowl. Label 'Bat Wings' (that was pretty easy!)

Halloween Rice Krispy Treats
Ingredients:
Rice Krispies
Butter
Marshmallows
Food Coloring
Procedure:
Prepare Rice Krispy Treats in the usual manner, adding a few drops of food coloring to the marshmallow mixture.

Witch's Brew
Ingredients:
Frozen Orange Juice
Frozen Grape Juice
Sugar (optional)
Ginger Ale
Procedure:
Mix frozen juices replacing water with ginger ale. Add 1 cup of sugar (optional) The finished product should be black and bubbly.
(a fun idea is to place the punch bowl into a larger bowl - or plastic cauldron - filled with dry ice. This will make it look like there is a mist rising from the brew. BE SURE THE DRY ICE DOES NOT COME INTO CONTACT WITH THE BREW!)

Happy Halloween!