Spicy Picnic Fried Bat Wings
Cold fried chicken is one of the best picnic foods around. It's easy to eat with one hand and somehow it tastes different but still delicious cold the next day sort of like pizza! These Halloween chicken wings aka bat wings get their colour from edible activated charcoal and are brined in buttermilk and given a spicy coating!
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Werewolf Paws
I saw this idea for Werewolf Paw cookies on Food.com and it was so clever! You can make these super simple by using your favourite single or sandwich cookie. Just make the hair and claws-too easy!
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Bloody Teeth and Bleeding Gums Cupcakes
Once upon a time a friend gave me a vampire teeth ice cube mould and I wondered if they would make for a gruesome cupcake topper. These bloody teeth and bleeding gums cupcakes are a bit sadistic dentist, a bit serial killer and feature gold fillings and realistic, rotting teeth! Cupcakes are perfect single serving items so they're not only picnic friendly but also COVID-19 friendly.
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Ants on Matcha Mochi Donuts
For these Halloween picnic donuts, I remembered back to one distinct picnic memory that I had and that was when I was a kid and we had ants all throughout our container of fried rice! These matcha mochi donuts are also gluten free if you have any GF eaters. For these matcha mochi donuts I made a creepy version of my blood orange mochi donuts because they keep fresher for longer than regular donuts and I made them 2 days ahead of time.
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Pumpkin Patch Strawberries
These Pumpkin Patch Strawberries are a Pinterest idea that I saw and loved so much. They're orange chocolate dipped strawberries on a bed of Oreo crumbs aka dirt with mint for the stems! It can be a bit painful to colour white chocolate as you need oil based colourings or powders so I used a pre-coloured chocolate. You can use orange candy melts but I wanted to use a better tasting quality chocolate so I used a Callebaut orange coloured chocolate.
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Maggot Infested Potato Salad
The great thing about picnics is being in the outdoors and eating delicious food. The bad things? When maggots aka get into your food! This is a simple potato salad with chives (for mold) and puffed rice for maggots!
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Ransom Finger Sandwiches
Long time readers know how much I love a good sandwich, especially an egg salad sandwich. These corpse finger sandwiches are cute and creepy plus what's a picnic without a sandwich? If egg salad isn't your thing, use any sort of filling you like.
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Candy Corn Kebabs
I ate my first candy corn last year and honestly, while it was cute, it just tasted like sugar. I get the nostalgia though and they're inextricably linked to Halloween in America. I decided to make a tastier version, call it the Aussie version of candy corn - fruit kebabs (another Pinterest find) using pineapple, rockmelon and banana. I wanted to use fresh pineapple but it didn't ripen in time and tinned also works.
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