Cook Up Some Scary Halloween Food

Blend trick with treat...thrill your guests with spooky food items this Halloween. Cook up some ghoulish dishes to add a tinge of horror to your Halloween dinner. It can be anything, ranging from a bleeding heart to witch's fingers. Shock your guests with home made scary food. Just remember that your aim is to make your guests uncomfortable at Halloween dinner. Do not ever try to be a benevolent host at your Halloween party. Let them smell the eerie flavor of the food.

Cook up scary eyeballs. Dissolve lemon gelatin in water and add marshmallows, pineapple juice, and cream cheese to it. Cool the mixture and fold in mayo. Then pour the mixture in round ice cube trays to get the eyeball shape. Use liquid food coloring for the decoration. Be creative. Use black food colorings for the pupils and dip the ball in a small pool of food coloring to get your desired colored irises.

You can hear the scream of your guests as you place a bleeding heart on their plates. It gives out the red, glossy effect, fruity smell, taste of sweet blood and a cold, wiggly touch to your guests. Add red syrup to get the impression of oozing blood. The impact is heightened if served on a white plate. It is easy to cook and you can start by adding packaged gelatin dessert and unflavored gelatin to boil water. Stir it constantly and then cool the solution. Then stir it in the condensed milk and check out that gradually it will acquire the color of skinned flesh. Or...you may even try out some other easy recipes.

Take a bowl and beat butter, sugar, egg, almond extract and vanilla together in flour, baking soda and salt. Refrigerate the mixture. Then mold each cookie in the shape of finger. Press almond firmly at one end to get the shape of nails. Squeeze the center of the cookie to create a knuckle shape. You can even use paring knife to make slashes in several places to form knuckle. Try out the tricks to get a spooky dish on this Halloween. Creepy witch's fingers would be frightful enough to shock your guests at Halloween dinner party.

Get witch's hat and broomsticks from the same mixture. So, go for it as you can cook two items from same preparation. This is definitely a time saving recipe idea. Cook the mixture of sugar, molasses, water and salt in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Stir the mixture until sugar get dissolved. Cook to 270 degrees Fahrenheit (soft-crack stage on a candy thermometer). Then remove the item from heat and stir in butter. Pour glaze over popcorn and mix well. If you want to have witch's hat, then, pack the mixture into a large buttered funnel. Mold it in the shape of hat and make a pointed cone with your hands. Cool the mixture. Add candy corn for the decoration of the brim of the hat. If you want to go for broomsticks, then, take one cup of the mixture to mold it into a broom head. Insert wooden skewer for handle. Wrap it up with licorice string. Cut the strings to make broom straws.

Do not miss the preparation of ghost cookies for this Halloween dinner. Take a large bowl and mix
granulated sugar, brown sugar, peanut butter, butter, shortening and egg until well blended. Then, stir it in flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt until blended. Cover the mixture and refrigerate for at least 3 hours. Heat oven to 375°F. Divide dough in half. Roll each half of dough 1/8 inch thick. Cut with 3x2-inch ghost-shaped cookie cutter. Hang the ghost cookies for a better effect and for that cut a hole at top of each cookie with a sharp knife. Ghosts do not look scary without their colored eyes. So, cut out holes to make eyes and you can even color the eyeballs for more scary impact on your guests. Spread glaze on cookies and decorate it with candies. Do not forget to thread strings through holes to hang your ghost cookies. Enjoy cookies with Halloween ghosts.

Just be creative and try to mold the mixtures and solutions in the shapes you want to. It's all about adding horror to your tasty food items. Do not get spooked by your guests due to lack of preparation. Try out these recipes for this Halloween and be sure that you are on the more safe side as far as both the tricking and the treating are concerned.

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