Spaghetti Mummy
During Halloween Mummies seem to be the order of the day here (see Mummy Hot Dogs) and when I saw a picture of this in Claire Crespo's The Secret Life of Food, I knew this was a definite winner. It's easy too and can be done with pre bought sauce and pasta (and you'd better believe I used pre bought with the amount of prep I had to do).
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Flayed Skin Face
Happy Halloween! This creepy flayed skin face started off its life as a pirate skull as I needed a skull base on which to make my flayed skin face. I simply bought 1/2 a kilo or 1lb of shaved ham and arranged it on top of the skull and added some eyeballs and voila that was the simplest and easiest dish!
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Creepy Crawly Cake
This Halloween Creepy Crawly Cake started off it's life as chocolate and zucchini cake as it was part of the monthly column I was writing for Webchild. I found these fabulous creepy crawlies at Aldi (a place I find some surprisingly good stuff) and there were centipedes, rats and snakes in the mix. I could have done a regular chocolate cake but I knew that it would be even more gruesome with the green bits of zucchini in it.
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Slimy Witch's Cauldron Pudding
This Halloween chocolate "slime" pudding is not quite as gruesome or unappealing as it sounds, this is simply a white chocolate custard pudding using the green white chocolate candy melts that Barbara sent me. Of course you could use white chocolate and green food colouring which is just as easy. Just know that serving this in mini cauldrons is quite necessary for the whole effect!
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Bat Bon Bons
I made these as I was sent some boxes of Rondnoirs for the Tobie Puttock Dinner of Discovery. As soon as I saw them I knew I wanted to incorporate them into my Halloween party. Little did I realise that Mr NQN was a huge fan of these and ate my whole supply so they sent me some more which I promptly hid (near the cleaning products - somewhere where I know he never ventures!). They're fiddly though and tying them up in the branches using invisible thread is a tad tedious and if I were to do it again, I'd perhaps glue them to a Halloween background.
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Butterbeer
You can't have a magical Halloween party without some sort of Harry Potter food and Butterbeer is the easiest drink to make! I based this recipe from Alexandra from Chefspiration who made Butterbeer to commemorate the new Harry Potter movie. I wasn't able to find butterscotch syrup so I bought a vanilla syrup and used apricot nectar to give it the right colour.
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So tell me Dear Reader, what did you do this Halloween? Do you celeberate it?