Eerie Eats For Your Halloween Party (updated)

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Introduction

Preparing for your Halloween bash? Here are some ideas from around the web (world-wide, not spider!) that you might want to add to your party menu for a great spooky spread. Food art such as this is amusing because of the creativity, imagination, and whimsy involved. You probably grew up with your mom telling you "Don't play with your food," but sometimes it's ok to break the rules. For detailed how-to instructions and recipes, click the provided links with the photos.

Halloween Hamburgers

www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/main/beef/halloween…

These open-faced sandwiches are made by cutting pieces of cheese into ghost or pumpkin shapes to place on hamburgers. Faces are made with bits of olives and peppers.

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Spider Web Dip Platter

www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/appetizers/dips/web…

Bean dip, guacomole, and sour cream form the spider web pattern on this dip. Serve it with tortilla chips.

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Bloody Eyeball Hors d'oeuvres

www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/appetizers/hors/eye…

These unnerving eyeballs are actually radishes stuffed with olives.

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Mice Candy

www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/dessert/sweets/mice…

These squeakers are made from a peanut butter, confectioner's sugar, cereal, nuts, and coconut dough that is shaped and then dipped in chocolate and decorated to look like mice.

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Mummy Cupcakes

allrecipes.com/Recipe/Carrot-Cupcakes-with-White-…

A carrot cake recipe and cream cheese icing are the beginnings of these mummy cupcakes.

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Spiderweb Cheesecake

allrecipes.com/Recipe/Spiderweb-Cheesecake/Detail…

A toothpick pulled through layers of melted chocolate creates the spider web design on this cheesecake.

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Witch's Brew

allrecipes.com/Recipe/Witches-Brew/Detail.aspx

A fake hand is frozen in a latex glove and slipped into the punch bowl for a ghoulish effect.

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Coffin Sandwiches

www.cooksrecipes.com/holiday/coffin_sandwiches_re…

Coffin shapes are cut from bread slices to form these simple ham sandwiches.

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Great Pumpkin Cake

www.cooksrecipes.com/holiday/great_pumpkin_cake_r…

This pumpkin shaped cake can be decorated with a Jack-0-Lantern face, if you wish, by flattening gum drops and cutting them in mouth, eye, and nose shapes.

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Eerie Eyeballs

www.britta.com/HW/HWr.html#eyeballs

Made from lemon jello, marshmallows, and cream cheese, these eyeballs can either be made using a melon baller or a ball shaped ice cube tray.

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Freaky Witches Fingers

www.britta.com/HW/HWr.html#fingers

Almonds form the nails for these creepy cookies.

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Brittle Meringue Bones

www.britta.com/HW/HWr.html#bones

These bones are made from an egg white meringue.

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Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Ghosts

www.halloweenkitchen.com/marshmallow_ghosts.html

Marshmallows on sticks are dipped in melted white chocolate and then decorated for these ghost treats.

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Jack-O-Lantern Pizza

www.halloweenkitchen.com/pumpkin_pizza.html

Use plenty of cheese on these pizzas that have pepperoni facial features.

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Ghosts In The Graveyard Cake

www.kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=recipe&m=recipe/kn…

Decorate a cake with Cool Whip ghosts and sandwich cookie gravestones for this Halloween dessert.

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Spooky Gloved Munch Mix

www.kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=recipe&m=recipe/kn…

Give your guests a "hand" with this snack mix stuffed inside plastic gloves.

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Ritz Spiders

www.kraftfoods.com/main.aspx?s=recipe&m=recipe/kn…

Ritz Crackers with a bit of decorating turn into edible spiders.

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Black Widow Spider Cupcakes

www.mydiyproject.com/diy/hd_halloween/article/0

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Black licorice legs and candy eyes are the finishing touches for these creepy crawly cupcakes.

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Green Snake and Orange Caterpillar

www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/side/potatoes/potat…

These colorful critters are made with mashed potatoes and food coloring. The potatoes are then shaped and decorated.

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Mashed Potato Mummies

www.fabulousfoods.com/recipes/side/potatoes/mashe…

Mashed potatoes are shaped into corn husks and decorated for these mummy side dishes.

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Ogre Boogers on a Stick

www.thefamilycorner.com/family/kids/recipes/hallo…

Pretzels, dipped in melted Cheeze Whiz with a bit of green food coloring added, create these disgusting items that are a favorite with kids.

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Frankenstein Centerpiece

www.hormel.com/templates/knowledge/knowledge.asp?…

Crackers, cheese, and pepperoni are the main ingredients that make up this creative centerpiece for your Halloween table.

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Frankenmallows

www.familycorner.com/family/kids/recipes/frankens…

Kids will love to make and eat these Frankenstein monsters that begin with marshmallows on sticks and green food coloring paste.

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Kitty Litter Cake

www.thefamilycorner.com/family/kids/recipes/hallo…

Crumbled cake, pudding, vanilla sandwich cookies, green food coloring, and some tootsie rolls come together to make this tasty, but truly GROSS, dessert for your Halloween blowout. Your guests won't soon forget this menu item.

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Black Bat Wings

www.perfectentertaining.com/halloween/hr185.html

Actually made from chicken in a special sauce, these "black bat wings" are truly intimidating.

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Meathead

cascade.mit.edu/halloween/meathead.html

A plastic skull is the base of this distressing entree. It is first layered with strips of red jello followed by strips of ham cold cuts, the yellow centers from hard boiled eggs add a nice jaundiced eye touch.

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Bugs In a Blanket

www.pillsbury.com/recipes/ShowRecipe.aspx?rid=379…

Sausages, breadstick dough, shoestring potatoes and ketchup and mustard are the ingredients needed for these creepy crawly sandwiches that are just right for small hands.

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