Instead of the usual sandwiches, at Halloween why not surprise the kids with
these spooky snacks!
Pumpkin crackers
A round cracker with a slice of red cheese cut into circle on top. Decorate
to look like a pumpkin with either soft cheese piped or a white cheese cut
into shapes.
Skull sandwiches
Cut two slices of bread into skull shapes. Cut eye and mouth shapes into the
top slice. Spread with butter. Spread the bottom slice thickly with jam and
place the top slice on letting the jam ooze through the gaps.
Devil egg eyes
Slice a hard boiled egg in two. Scoop out the yolk and in a separate bowl
mix in some mayonnaise. Spoon egg mixture back into boiled egg. To make the
eye look bloodshot use tomato ketchup.
Ice scream eyes
Scope of raspberry ripple ice cream with a cherry on top. Add strawberry sauce
for more blood.
Bat wings
Arrange chicken wings on a plate to look like bats.
Dried scabs
Simply a bowl of dried fruit. Red berries and raisins look good.
Blood and guts
Make up a red jelly and allow to set. Chop up jelly and add red fruits for
a gory look.
Fangs
Slices of peeled apple with a strawberry (blood) sauce.
Witches fingers
Simply cocktail sausages with red or green peppers. Cut a small (1cm) slice
out of the top of the sausage to form a shelf for the finger nail to rest.
Cut the pepper into finger nail shapes and add a bit of soft cheese on the
back to stick it onto the sausage.
Witch heads
Cover
a fairy cake with green butter icing (or add green food colouring to cake
mixture – a lot less messy and time consuming). Cover an ice cream
cone in melted chocolate and allow to set. Add a little spare butter icing
to the base of the cone to stick it to a chocolate digestive to form a hat.
Cut up some liquorice laces and add to the top of the fairy cake to form
hair. Place the hat on top. Use dolly mixtures for eyes and pipe black icing
to form
the rest of the face.
Blood
Any red fruit juice or squash.
Mud
Chocolate milkshake, mixed with ice cream and crushed chocolate flakes.
Lastly why not serve up crisps in a bowl with plastic skeleton or bats for
decoration.
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Rachael Willerton publishes b4 school an online magazine for parents with fantastic
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(10-23-2006)
