Fun Halloween Food

These super simple spook-tacular Halloween snack ideas will be fun for all your party guests.

Pumpkin Veggie Tray

I of our clever readers came upward with this boo-rific idea!

What you'll need:

  • A big serving tray or cutting board
  • ane large bag of baby carrots
  • 1 cucumber
  • 1 head of broccoli
  • ane carton of your favorite veggie dip
  • Ramekins or minor bowls

How To:

  1. Create an outline for your pumpkin by laying some of the carrots out in an oblong circle. One time the carrot outline is to your liking, carefully fill in the circle with the rest of the carrots.
  2. Remove enough of the carrots to create a cucumber-filled smile. Gear up the carrots you removed on top of the other carrots within your pumpkin.
  3. Place halved cucumber slices in the infinite yous created for your carrot pumpkin's grin.
  4. Fill your ramekins with the veggie dip and shimmy them into identify where you lot desire the pumpkin'south eyes and nose to be.
  5. Slice off the stem of the broccoli head. Identify the broccoli at the top of your pumpkin.

Mini Pepperoni Pizza Pumpkin Faces

Thanks to Renee Bong of Lebanon, Connecticut for sharing this fun jack-o'-lantern recipe! "I prepared these for my daughter'south daycare political party. Even the picky eaters loved them and ate every bite!"

What you'll need:

  • 1 package of English muffins
  • 1 jar spaghetti sauce
  • i parcel of shredded mozzarella cheese
  • Approximately 20 slices of pepperoni

How To:

  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Separate English muffins into 12 halves and identify on ungreased baking canvas. Spread desired amount of pizza sauce on each one-half. Sprinkle each half with mozzarella cheese. Bake at 350° for eight to 10 minutes or until the cheese is mostly melted.
  2. While the English muffins bake, piece each piece of pepperoni into quarters, and and so slice off the curved border of each pepperoni quarter, creating a triangle.
  3. Remove the English language muffins from the oven and identify pepperoni triangles on each one, forming optics and a olfactory organ. Use the curved edge scraps of pepperoni to create a zigzagged rima oris.
  4. Render the English muffins to the oven and broil for 7-10 minutes, or until hot.

Witch's Please Snack Mix

Sharon Delaney-Chronis of South Milwaukee, Wisconsin sends this bewitching snack mix. "This makes a fun gift. Just place the mix in clear jars or containers and make a label listing all the 'creepy' ingredients. When using a jar, I draw on a blackness witch hat and spiders with a permanent marker."

What you lot'll need:

  • ane/2 cup small corn chips (butterfly wings)
  • 1/two loving cup sweetened flaked coconut (cobwebs)
  • i/2 cup red jelly beans (wild berries)
  • 1/2 cup raisins (ants)
  • 1/2 cup doughnut shaped oat cereal (owl rings)
  • 1/2 loving cup candy-coated chocolates (colored flies)
  • 1/2 cup chow mein noodles (earthworms)
  • 1/2 loving cup peanuts (squirrels' nuts)
  • 1/2 cup mini pretzels (bat bones)
  • 1/two cup sunflower kernels (birdseed)

How To:

    1. Mix together all the ingredients in a large bowl.
    2. Shop in an airtight container. Tape a listing on to the container of just the creepy ingredients (consider using shaky-looking handwriting or a spooky font).

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Originally Published: September 29, 2008