Halloween Party Help!

I give my daughter a Halloween bash every year and each year we find creative food options for picky kids. One item that goes over big are "mummy hotdogs," which are hotdogs wrapped in crescent rolls. Wrap the (un-cooked) hot dogs with crescent roll dough and pop in the oven. Add poppy seed eyes and a mustard drawn mouth. These are cute and tasty. Make it real creepy by using black food coloring in the ketchup for dipping the mummies and fries. Have fun.

One that we did one year was apple slices with peanut butter (or yu can use caramel if you are making them in advance).. on them and we used candy corn for vampire teeth with mini marshmellows in between.. the kids LOVED them!

Mummies: hot dogs wrapped in bread-dough such as Pillsbury biscuit dough is a hit with my kids.
Baby carrots with the tip dipped in dressing so they look like fingers. I think I saw them more pointed than how they usually come so they may have been cut

We found great plastic molds from oriental trading that look like scary hands and a brain, we made red colored ice out of them and floated them in the punch bowl. Check out Blisstree.com they have a list of 50 party snacks for halloween and they are GREAT!

Check out familyfun.com- lots of great ideas for all occasions. Have fun!

If you are already going to dip pretzels, you should make thme into bones. Stick mini marshmellows on the ends (long ways) to resemble the nobby ends of a leg bone and dip in white or milk chocolate. See recipe below.

http://www.epicurious.com/articlesguides/holidays/hallowe...

check out the taste of home website. it is a magazine with tons of recipes etc. they have a whole small recipe book with halloween recipes!

Hi, my son loves to help make skeleton hands. We make them using food service gloves. You make popcorn and then put it in the gloves. To make the fingernails you can put a candy corn in the tip of each glove. Another great spot for recipes is www.allrecipes.com. Good luck with your party. T.

you could make hands
you would need:
plastic gloves (clear)
popcorn(microwave, or packaged)
candy corn
you would place the candy corn in each finger( this would represent fingernails, and then place the popcorn in the gloves to fill up.

We're going to be doing one here, too. I found great stuff here: http://thelongthread.com/?page_id=2593

Also, Somewhere I have a recipe but in a nutshell, you make sugar cookie dough and roll it into snakes that look like fingers & cut the right length for a finger. Add blanched almonds at one end for fingernails. Then bake. Make red icing & put "blood" on the other end. Creepy, & fun.

Have fun!
D.

check out Family Fun magazine, you can check online. I'm such a geek when it comes to the Halloween treats!

Last year I bought the breadsticks in a tube, snipped the ends a bit and made "salty bones." i also took a mini watermelon and carved it into a brain.

Another cute one was to take pretzel rods and wrap a bit of fruit by the foot around one end, snip it to look like a broom.

I've got more if you want....

J.-

I love the web site called Family Fun. There is a wealth of information on it. I checked to make sure there were some creepy recipes and there are tons!

Here is the exact page to go to:

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/special/specialfeature/ha...

Have fun!

J.

Hi. I used to have Halloween parties when my boys were little. Hint:Use cake frosting as a "glue"... Favorites were: 1.Mounds candy bars with chow mein noodles for legs and mini m&m for eyes-looks like spiders. 2. Lift up the top half of the nutter butter as to resemble an open mouth(it will look like the top half is cracked in half), cut a tongue for a snake from a fruit roll up and insert, use mini m&m for eyes. 3. Mummy fingers- Wrap mozarella cheese sticks inn strips of flour tortillas, dot on eyes with food coloring and a toothpick. 4. Marshmallow eyes- On a large marshmallow-using a toothpick make crooked lines with red food coloring and stuff a raisin in the middle for the middle of the eye. 4. Witches fingers-Use the Philsbury breadstick dough, cut in thirds and shape, insert a slivered almond at the top to resemble a nail, bake and serve with pizza sauce. Have fun!!

I have recommended this website to all my family, friends, co-workers, and my son's teachers. My favorite is the homeade HALLOWEEN Costumes, Games, and Cake designs. I made a creepy, but delicious cake based on some of the pictures. Just type what your looking for in the search box. Have fun.

www.coolest-parties.com

I love the Kitty Litter Cake. Here is one link: http://www.fabulousfoods.com/index.php?option=com_resourc...

You can google it and get better pictures. It is really cool to serve it in a real kitty litter pan and scooper. If you can use Nutty Butter cookies, dip them in white chocolate then use two mini cho. chip to make eyes and they look like ghost. Also another gross one is to dip the thin pretzel sticks into white chocolate, then attach a mini marshmellow on each end and dip into melted butterscotch. They look like used q-tips. You can also use your ghost cookie cutters to make mini pizza. Just roll out the dough, cut shape, top with pizza sauce, cheese and sliced black olives for eyes, eyes removable if too gross to eat for some kids.

I like to make the mummy wraps with hot dogs wrapped in a crescent roll, you can use a little ketchup to make a face. You can also use the mimi hot dog and make smaller ones.

For my son's 5th birthday I found a recipe for eyeball cupcakes - he loved them! He liked helping me decorate. Here are a couple different versions (I used the one from epicurious):

http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/EYEBALL-CUPC...

http://kidscooking.about.com/od/halloweenrecipes/ss/eyeba...