Halloween food

Here we have some wickedly good Halloween recipes and food ideas for you - have great fun creating some spooky savouries, quivering thirst quenchers and devilish delights.

From egg eyeballs to a gruesome melon brain, from Vampire blood to witches fingers!

 

Melon brain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is a brilliantly simple but ever so effective idea for the centrepiece of your Halloween table.  Take a seedless watermelon and carefully peel off all the entire green rind, leaving the white rind showing. The best thing to use is a potato peeler - take great care though.

Now slice off the bottom of the melon so the 'brain' can sit flat on a plate and the rest is easier to carve.

Then score (use a toothpick or skewer) and carve out channels to look like a human brain. As you carve deeper the red flesh will be revealed underneath giving you a brilliantly gruesome effect.

Then let your little devils devour the lot!

The melon brain is a Team Netmums favourite.

 

 

Cheese eyeballs

 

 

 

 

 

 

                     2 cups grated Cheddar

                     1/2 cup butter

                     1 teaspoon paprika

                     1 cup plain flour

                      6 oz bottle pimento stuffed green olives

Combine the cheese and butter. Add paprika and flour and mix well. Take about a teaspoon of the mixture and form an 'eyeball' round an olive. Turn the olive in the 'eyeball' so it is starring outward. Line up the eyeballs on a greased cookie sheet and bake in a 400F (200C/gas6) over for 15 minutes. 

Eyeball eggs

 

 

 

 

 

 

                      Hard boiled eggs (halved)

                       Cream cheese

                       Stuffed olives

                       Tomato ketchup (optional)

Scoop the yolks out of the eggs and put in a bowl. Mash the yolks and add some cream cheese. Fill the centre of the egg whites with the yolk/cheese mixture and add an olive for the eyeball. If you have enough time put some ketchup in a bowl and use a cocktail stick to draw lines on the whites to make them look bloodshot.

For a quicker and easier idea cut boiled eggs in half and add a halved olive in the centre for the eyeball and use red food colouring to make the bloodshot veins!

 

Witches fingers

 

 

 

 

 

Cook some chicken or fish goujons and stick a 'finger nail' (a piece of flaked almond) on to the end of each goujon using a little bit of cream cheese.

Alternatively cut pizza into finger shapes and add a slice of pepper on the end for finger nails.

Or for a quick and simple idea roll slices of ham and add a flaked almond finger nail. Gruesomely good!

Marshmallow Ghosts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients

                       Flour for rolling

                       600g/1lb 5oz ready-to-roll icing

                       24 marshmallows

                       Food colouring pens

Method

1. Dust a board and rolling pin with corn flour and roll the icing out until it's the thickness of a pound coin.
2. Cut into 11cm/4½ inch rounds. Stack the marshmallows on top of each other in pairs and drape a round of icing over each stack to make a ghost.
3. Draw a face on each with the food colouring pens

 

Tangerine Pumpkins

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All you need is tangerines and a black pen. Simply draw faces on all the tangerines and you have an amazing mini pumpkin effect that is very healthy for the kids..