Halloween is no longer only about receiving silly treats and candies on Halloween night. Halloween has turned into a full-day celebration, which people prepare ahead for weeks, in order to have the spookiest yet most fun night possible. So, instead of simply celebrating this creepy night by giving out candies, why not celebrate it by incorporating Halloween into all of your meals?
Below are some deliciously-spooky Halloween inspired meals, for a day filled with the magic that comes along with Halloween.
Below are some deliciously-spooky Halloween inspired meals, for a day filled with the magic that comes along with Halloween.
First off: Booooreakfast
To start off your Halloween morning right, why not make an Egg-sorcist?
Ingredients:
To start off your Halloween morning right, why not make an Egg-sorcist?
Ingredients:
- 1 hard-boiled egg
- 1 thick slice tomato
- 2 pimento-stuffed olives
- 1 peppercorn
- 3-4 twigs of cilantro
- mustard
- toothpicks
- Peel the shell off the hard-boiled egg and cut a thin slice from the bottom so that the egg can stand by itself
- Cut the egg in half and place a tomato slice between, and put a toothpick through the egg to hold it together. Leave part of the toothpick sticking out from the top of the head to hold the hair of the egg
- Break a toothpick in half and stick it in each eye sockets. Place olive eyes over the toothpicks.
- Poke the peppercorn for the nose. Dab mustard on the tomato slice in order to draw yellow teeth.
- Place cilantro on the top of the head for his green hair
And what about some Ghost Pancakes?
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- 2 cups of pancake mix
- mixing bowl
- whisk
- funnel-tipped condiment bottle
- ⅛ cup milk chocolate drops
- butter
- spatula
- Preheat your griddle to 350 degrees F or medium high heat
- Mix your pancake mix as instructed on the box
- Fill the condiment bottle with the pancake mix
- Grease the griddle with some butter
- Squeeze the condiment bottle with the pancake mix and draw your ghost
- Fill your ghost shape with more pancake mix
- Place the chocolate droplets as the ghost’s eyes
- Flip your ghost until it’s golden brown
- Repeat
Lunch/Dinner Time!
Eyeball Pasta
Ingredients:
Eyeball Pasta
Ingredients:
- 100g cherry tomatoes
- 50g pack mini mozzarella balls
- Basil leaf
- 400g green tagliatelle
- tomato sauce
- 4 tablespoons of fresh pesto
- Halve the cherry tomatoes and remove the seeds from the inside. Cut the mozzarella balls in half and place one half inside each tomato. Cut small circles from basil leaf and place each at the center of each mozzarella ball
- Boil the pasta and heat through the tomato sauce
- When the pasta is cooked, drain and stir through the pesto
- Divide into serving bowls and spoon over tomato sauce
- Arrange the eyeballs on top
Dessert Time
Candy Apples
Ingredients:
Candy Apples
Ingredients:
- 8 wooden craft sticks
- 8 medium apples
- 2 packages of caramel apple wraps
- 1 chocolate bar
- 16 ounces vanilla bark coating
- Orange food coloring
- Toppings: sprinkles, peanuts, etc.
- Insert craft sticks into apples. Cover each apple with 1 caramel wrap.
- Microwave at HIGH 15 to 20 seconds. Cool.
- Melt chocolate bar in a small pan over low heat.
- Dip each apple into chocolate; let dry
- Melt vanilla bark coating in a small pan over low heat; stir in orange food coloring
- Dip or drizzle each apple with vanilla coating mixture. Decorate with toppings.
Skeleton Cupcakes
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- 1 box of white cake mix
- 4 large egg whites
- 1 cup of milk
- ⅓ cup of canola oil
- 2 cans of vanilla frosting
- 18 marshmallows
- lollipop sticks
- black food coloring and decorating pen
- yogurt-covered mini pretzels
- Heat oven and line cupcake cups
- Beat cake mix, egg whites, milk and oil in a large bowl for 3 minutes until the batter is smooth.
- Divide batter among the cupcake cups
- Bake cupcakes 20 to 22 minutes. Wait for it to cool and remove cupcakes to rack to cool completely. Frost cupcakes with vanilla frosting.
- Flatten marshmallows with palm of your hand. Insert lollipop stick into each marshmallow.
- Draw skeleton mouth, nostrils and eyes with the black decorating pen along the bottom of each marshmallow
- Thread the stick end of the marshmallow head through the small hole of a pretzel, stoppin about ½ inch below the head.
- Secure pretzel in place with frosting. Add 2 more pretzels, lining them up resembling a rib cage.
- Stick the skeleton on top of the cupcake.
- To make the arms, carefully cut a pretzel in half and attach to the top rib with frosting.
Snacks!
Apple Bites
Ingredients:
Apple Bites
Ingredients:
- Apples
- Almonds
- Quarter and core an apple
- Cut a wedge from the skin side of each quarter
- Press almonds in place for teeth
Mwa-ha-ha Sandwich
Ingredients:
Ingredients:
- Sandwich
- Red Pepper
- Use a pairing knife to cut a sandwich into a skull or bite-size fingers
- Add red pepper nails
Information acquired from:
BREAKFAST
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=689
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=2639
DINNER/LUNCH
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12856/eyeball-pasta
DESSERT
http://www.delish.com/recipefinder/skeleton-cupcakes-recipe-122708
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/candy-apples-10000000258724/
SNACK
http://spoonful.com/recipes/apple-bites
http://spoonful.com/recipes/a-mwa-ha-ha-ha-midday-meal
By: Carolina Franco
BREAKFAST
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=689
http://www.mrbreakfast.com/superdisplay.asp?recipeid=2639
DINNER/LUNCH
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/12856/eyeball-pasta
DESSERT
http://www.delish.com/recipefinder/skeleton-cupcakes-recipe-122708
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/candy-apples-10000000258724/
SNACK
http://spoonful.com/recipes/apple-bites
http://spoonful.com/recipes/a-mwa-ha-ha-ha-midday-meal
By: Carolina Franco