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    Halloween party snack ideas?

    My little brother (13) talked me into helping him throw a Halloween party this year. I had no problem thinking up a bunch of sweet snacks that fit the Halloween theme (red jam filled blood cookies, ghost cupcakes, and so on), but I'm really stuck on what to do for some more savory snacks/finger foods that also sort of fit that theme. (Except for those mummy hot dog things, which I'd rather not do.) Anyone have any ideas/recipes for that sort of thing?

    Cheap decoration ideas are also welcome.
    Hearth and Hedge

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    Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

    For cheap decorations, crepe paper streamers & balloons - you can make a huge balloon spider w/crepe-paper streamer legs - or creepy single balloon ones like this one: http://familycrafts.about.com/od/spi...piderCraft.htm

    Since you've got some time, you could try Halloween-themed pinatas, too.

    As far as savory foods go, you probably don't need to theme them up too much - stuff like chili dogs, chicken wings/fingers, pigs-in-blankets (hot dogs or Lil Smokies wrapped in refrigerator breadstick dough & baked), nachos/nacho fries speak for themselves w/kids. Pizza always works, too. Actually, with some food coloring or sauces, pigs-in-blankets could probably be made into eyeballs or cut-off fingertips. And you can do popcorn balls in sweet or savory - go with the 'fall' thing along with the Halloween thing.
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      #3
      Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

      Those balloon spiders are pretty neat, I think I'll look into doing those. For anyone else looking for ideas, something else I came across was to cut eyes into cardboard tubes, stick a glowstick in there, and hide them in shrubs and such.

      I'm not going to do all the food in theme (because definitely going to be chips, salsa, and cheese dip, because I love any excuse to eat those things ), but I'd like to stick a few of those sorts of things in with the savory foods. Pig in blanket eyes might be fun to do. The hot dog mummies I mentioned are similar, but the dough is cut into thin strips to look like mummy wrappings - which is cute, but a pain to do for as many people as are coming. Eyes I think would be much easier, though!
      Hearth and Hedge

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        Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

        Ooh, I like the glowstick eyes!
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          #5
          Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

          ARGH! The kids interrupted me, but I had a whole list...and now its gone

          A new list...

          http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes-a...es/page-8.html (tomato soup in a test tube=vampire blood...you could do it with others too, in flasks and whatnot, and have a whole "mad scientist" set up)

          http://www.ourbestbites.com/2011/10/...en-party-food/ (check out the "bones"--breadsticks and "blood"--marinara)

          http://www.parenting.com/article/spo...ood-sandwiches (finger sammys)

          http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/spo...1-31af128e5a5b shepherds pie with mashed tater ghosts

          http://spoonful.com/recipes/mummy-meatloaf mummy meatloaf

          http://www.pillsbury.com/recipes/mou...3-db7cb08df217 meatloaf mice

          http://spoonful.com/recipes/pizza-mummies (get some mini bagels, and I think this would be awesome!)

          http://spoonful.com/recipes/black-bean-cat-crudites make your veggies look cool!

          http://spoonful.com/recipes/edible-eyeballs carrot eyeballs





          If you look through the halloween food lists, you can usually find one or two...
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            #6
            Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

            LOL, those mashed potato ghosts. I'm only ever going to make mashed potatoes like that again.

            Those bread stick bones are pretty neat, too, lots of good ideas, thanks!
            Hearth and Hedge

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              Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

              My wife makes Witch's hats cookies. You need Keebler fudge stripe cookies, orange chocolate wafers, and Hersheys kisses.

              On wax paper place the fudge stripe cookies upside down. Melt the orange chocolate in a double boiler and unwrap the Hershey kisses.
              Take a spoon full of the melted orange chocolate and make a ring of it around the hole of th cookie and place the Hershey kiss on top of the melted chocolate before it cools. The orange chocolate makes a hat band and holds the kiss in place.
              You may have to make a few to get the hang of it and you get to eat the mistakes!
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                Originally posted by Gardenia View Post
                LOL, those mashed potato ghosts. I'm only ever going to make mashed potatoes like that again.
                I know, right?

                The kids saw those and I was told this was the only way they would ever eat mashed potatoes from now on...
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                  #9
                  Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

                  Dubious trifle!

                  I saw this in a book YEARS ago so don't have the actual recipe, but I'm sure any one will do. That big thins is that it's dark in a variety of grotesque colours (blood red is in there, of course). And on top is a spider-web made with icing, complete with grape and licorice (or similar candy for the legs) spider and raisin flies.
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                    #10
                    Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

                    Originally posted by Monk View Post
                    My wife makes Witch's hats cookies. You need Keebler fudge stripe cookies, orange chocolate wafers, and Hersheys kisses.
                    I made these for a friend's Halloween party last year, they were cute. I also made little matching broomsticks to go with them, which were pretty easy. I used packaged peanut butter cookie mix, and you shape that into the straw shape for the broom (use a fork to make the texture), then push a mini pretzel stick into it for the handle. I piped on some melted chocolate to make the string part that holds the two sections of broom together. I think the original recipe wanted bigger cookies with the larger pretzel rods in the same way, but the small ones went better with the hats.
                    Hearth and Hedge

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                      Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

                      Originally posted by Gardenia View Post
                      I made these for a friend's Halloween party last year, they were cute. I also made little matching broomsticks to go with them, which were pretty easy. I used packaged peanut butter cookie mix, and you shape that into the straw shape for the broom (use a fork to make the texture), then push a mini pretzel stick into it for the handle. I piped on some melted chocolate to make the string part that holds the two sections of broom together. I think the original recipe wanted bigger cookies with the larger pretzel rods in the same way, but the small ones went better with the hats.
                      Ooh, you could probably do that with 'pizza pops'. They're kind of like raviolis on a stick. Something like these: http://www.thekitchn.com/latest-food...pizza-p-111108 - only shaped into Halloween shapes!
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                        Re: Halloween party snack ideas?

                        Originally posted by Gardenia View Post
                        I made these for a friend's Halloween party last year, they were cute. I also made little matching broomsticks to go with them, which were pretty easy. I used packaged peanut butter cookie mix, and you shape that into the straw shape for the broom (use a fork to make the texture), then push a mini pretzel stick into it for the handle. I piped on some melted chocolate to make the string part that holds the two sections of broom together. I think the original recipe wanted bigger cookies with the larger pretzel rods in the same way, but the small ones went better with the hats.
                        We'll have to give these a try, they sound like theyed look cool.
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