The Perfect Halloween Bash with Edible Puke and Freaky Gummy Rum Punch

When it comes to celebrating Halloween adults typically look forward to the most festive bashes along with the creative aspect of the holiday which includes dressing up in the most expressive and award winning costume that the imagination can dream up. Party planning that includes a menu packed full of creepy treats is always a fun part of the process. Other elements to a successful Halloween party can include a pumpkin carving contest, most creepiest and inventive side dish, and a creative contest that offers prizes for categories that include the creepiest, funniest, sexiest, most inventive, and high tech costumes.

When sending out invitations include a special note to your invited guests that there will be various contests from the creepiest Halloween side dish to carving pumpkins and a best costume contest. This will give your guests an opportunity to prepare for the festive and spooky event filled evening while they dream up some of the best Halloween works of art that you have ever seen, both in the culinary and the fashion industries. This extra pocket of time will also allow them to hone their skills with the tools necessary in crafting their best designs in the pumpkin carving contest.

Small inexpensive prizes can be purchased from the Dollar store to give to the prize winners for each category. You can even wrap the gifts in black or orange holiday paper that fits the occasion perfectly. Stack the gifts on a table decorated with scary props and Halloween confetti that can be purchased at any party store. Orange and black balloons tied to the table will also create the atmosphere needed for the party mood. Don't forget to have monster music playing in the background so that your guests can boogie the night away while sipping on gummy rum punch.

Of course any great bash has to have delicious food, but this is a Halloween party so the creepy element added to the menu of treats is a big plus when it comes to memorable parties. Blood, bones, spiders, internal body parts, and green gooey things are perfectly acceptable and most likely welcome at this type of festivity, so allow your creative juices to travel into the unknown territory of totally freaky things and give your party the mood and setting for a night to remember.

The decorations should not to be out done by the food and special effects that can include everything from fog machines to eerie music, ghosts, chains, skeletons and hairy, wet, or slimy props that should be placed in various inconspicuous positions that aid in freaking your guests out and getting them into the mood for a night of frightful and horrifying encounters with their worst fears. Small plastic witches cauldrons can be purchased from the Dollar Store and placed around the room as serving bowls for chips or candy corn. A larger cauldron could also be used for serving the witches brew aka soup.

Gruesome Halloween Bash Recipes

Freaky Gummy-Rum Punch

1-46 oz. bottle Apricot Nectar
1-46 oz. bottle Pineapple Juice
1-2 liter bottle Ginger Ale
2 1/2 cups Rum
3-6 oz. cans Limeade Frozen concentrate
Lime slices
1 Glow Necklace
1 package gummy worms
Miniature Halloween props

Mix the ingredients together and pour the prepared punch into a large clear glass punch bowl. Place the bowl on top of a glow necklace so that the light shines through the punch bowl. Add the lime slices, gummy worms, plastic spiders, fingers and plastic eyeballs to the punch for the freakiest punch you have ever seen.

Prepared Spinach Hummus

1-15 ounce can of garbanzo beans
1/2 cup fresh spinach, chopped
1/4 cup tahini sauce *found in the Middle Eastern food section*
2 tablespoons garlic
3 tablespoons lemon juice
2 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 teaspoon salt

Put all of the ingredients in a food processor. If mixture is too thick, add 1 tablespoon water until desired consistency. The mixture should be smooth and creamy.

Haunted Graveyard Dip

Prepared hummus * See Above Recipe*
1 stalk of celery
1 bunch of fresh broccoli
1 bag of small bow-tie pretzels
4 large pretzel rods
6 hard boiled eggs, shells off
6 flat crackers
Black olives sliced
Edible marker * found at cake supply stores*
Extra vegetables for dipping

Spread the hummus in a 13x9 dish so that it looks like grass. Make a fence border with the bow-tie pretzels, using the 4 large pretzel rods in each corner as fence posts. Cut the celery tops off leaving three to four inches with the celery leaves intact for trees. Place the broccoli in small bunches around the top of the dip to look like bushes. Cut slits in the eggs to slide the sliced olives in the holes to make faces on the eggs to look like small ghosts. Write R.I.P., names and dates on the crackers to look like miniature headstones. Serve extra veggies on the side for dipping. To see a helpful guideline, go to: http://en.petitchef.com/recipes/the-haunted-graveyard-fid-498458

Black Barbecued Bat Wings

5 pounds chicken wings
2 cups ketchup
1 1/2 cups molasses
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar
3 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
2 tablespoons sugar
1 Tablespoon hot sauce
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
Black food paste coloring
Blue food paste coloring
Green food paste coloring
Ranch or blue cheese dressing
Celery sticks

Bake the chicken wings in a 375 degree oven for 40-45 minutes or until golden brown. Remove the chicken from the oven and turn the oven heat up to 425 degrees. Meanwhile put the ketchup, molasses, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, sugar, hot sauce, salt and pepper in a saucepan and simmer over medium low heat for 15 minutes. Begin adding a few drops of each of the colored food pastes to the barbecue sauce until it turns black. Toss the chicken and the sauce in a large bowl until completely covered in the black barbecue sauce. Place onto a shallow foil lined baking sheet and cook the chicken an additional 15 minutes. Serve with ranch or blue cheese and celery sticks.

The Puking Pumpkin and Guacamole Dip

4 ripe avocados
1 clove garlic, minced
1/2 tomato, finely chopped
1/4 cup finely chopped red onion
3 drops hot pepper sauce
2 Tablespoons lemon juice
1 small pumpkin carved
Black tortilla chips

Slice the avocados lengthwise and remove the pit and spoon out the avocado. In a bowl mash the avocados with a fork leaving them a bit chunky. Fold in the tomato, garlic, onion, pepper sauce and lemon juice. Stir until blended together thoroughly. Refrigerate for 1 hour. Spread the dip out onto a tray with the pumpkin placed on the tray as well with the dip coming out of the pumpkins mouth like he is puking onto the tray. Serve the chips in a cauldron.

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