You can put the treat into trick-or-treat with some easy but tasty Halloween recipes. Halloween is now considered to be a fun occasion, not a frightful ritual…and celebrations can be bright and breezy, nor dark and doleful! The Halloween delights coming out of your kitchen can only add to the festive atmosphere, and they can be created from the most basic of elements. For example, humble cupcakes can be transformed into a beautifully bewitching batch!
Slightly Scary Cupcakes
Cupcakes are quick and cheap to make, and at Halloween time they become a blank canvas for some creepily creative frosting! A white chocolate skeleton piped onto dark chocolate frosting is the prime example. In the same way that anything goes with Halloween costumes these days, you can do whatever you like with your cupcakes, depending on the age and ‘scare threshold’ of your children!
Spook-ghetti
Wriggling white worms, swimming in blood! Or skinny intestines wallowing in tummy-mato sauce! The success of this dish depends more on how you label it than how you cook it, but it’s all in good fun. Top with eyeballs that look suspiciously like meatballs and you have a delicious if somewhat stomach-turning Halloween feast.
Petrifying Pumpkin Pie
What else are you going to do with all that pumpkin you scoop out of your Jack O’Lantern? And there’s nothing to stop you decorating your pumpkin pie to look a Jack O’Lantern as well. Serve with home-made ice cream, colored to look suitably ghoulish, and you have the natural dessert to serve after your Spook-ghetti.
Devils On Horseback
Otherwise known as prunes wrapped in bacon…and sinfully delicious. Devils On Horseback are better suited for more grown up Halloween occasions. Kids might consider the prune and bacon combo a match made in hell…but adults will find them a match made in heaven. On a similar theme, devilled eggs…or devilled anything…are a hit at more mature Halloween celebrations.
Horribly Healthy
If you don’t want Halloween to be all about candy, and want to maintain a modicum of healthy eating, sticks of carrot and celery are great. Not on their own, of course, but in the company of a ghoulish looking dip…think guacamole! By letting your imagination you can create all sorts of spooky looking dips to go with those healthy vegetable sticks…beetroot and sun dried tomato instantly come to mind! Those red colors are bloodthirsty hues.
Bubble, Bubble, Toil and Trouble
A big brew of bubbling soup is just the thing if things are a little cooler on Halloween evening. Pea soup can be disgustingly green and, of course, that left over pumpkin can be used as well. Serve with toasted bread cut into scary shapes.
Broccoli
All kids are scared of broccoli. Just cook it as you usually would and you have a spooky side dish just ready to go!
It really is very easy to cook up a delightfully diabolical Halloween feast! Many of the ingredients are staples that are already in your kitchen, so the expense is limited. However, your imagination shouldn’t be. Let the creative juices flow, and make this the most tasteful Halloween yet!
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Sophie Olver is a mother of two daughters and co-owner of MADC’S, designers and creators of the best quality children’s sleepwear available in Australia, if not the world. At www. mad-cs.com.au, bedtime is not the end of the day but rather the beginning of the next adventure!
