Halloween Tricks & Treats~ Super Fun Gross Out Food For The Kids

Whether you are having an all out Haloween Bash, or just want something a little extra-special to make Halloween (& the days leading up to it) more memorable- there are plenty of Spooktacular Halloween Recipes to choose from. I spend a good amount of time each October searching thru the seasonal magazines and websites for new recipes to try out, and add to our tried and true favorites. These are a few of the fun ones I found over at the Family Fun Magazine site.

There is never a shortage of sugar around Halloween, so I'm usually looking to balance it with some healthy but fun snacks. (With the exception of the last receipe! Which I just couldn't resist because they are so easy & cute & look so tasty!)

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Now... I want to add one extra little thing that many of us Pagan Parents do when we are making up our Family's Halloween Treats (that most of the other Folks would probably not be thinking of)- is that we add that extra dash of magick in. Food can be charmed for any possible purpose- and even better when the ingredient's natural properties are used.

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Spiced Apple Cider can be charmed for love, Carrots for clear sight, Yams for prosperity. Kids love this little practice, and it is a great excersize to get them thinking about the qualities they would like to bring into our lives- and the properties and symbolism in what we consume or use. And...its just plain fun! So give a bit of thought and intention into your food preparation & you can be killing two birds with one stone! (Figuratively speaking of course!)
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MINI MUMMY FACE PIZZAS

Disguises aren't just for the kids on Halloween. Surprise your family with these dressed-up, spooky-looking snacks for a Halloween treat. Kids can help by spooning the pizza sauce on the English muffin and making the mummy face with the cheese and vegetables.
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Ingredients:
English muffins
Pizza sauce
Black olives
Scallions
Red or green pepper
Cheese sticks or slices
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Instructions:
Heat the oven to 350º F. For each mummy, spread a tablespoon of pizza sauce onto half of an English muffin (toast it first, if you like).
Set olive slices in place for eyes and add round slices of green onion or bits of red or green pepper for pupils.
Lay strips of cheese (we used a pulled-apart cheese stick) across the muffin for the mummy?s wrappings.
Bake for about 10 minutes or until the cheese is melted and the muffin is toasty.
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CHEESY MONSTER FINGERS
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Partying in costume calls for easy-eating fare, and these cheesy monster digits fit the bill.

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Ingredients
Mozzarella string cheese
Green bell pepper
Cream cheese
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Instructions
Wearing plastic gloves or sandwich bags over your hands to keep the cheese as smudge-free as possible, use a paring knife (parents only) to cut each string in half and then carve a shallow area for a fingernail just below the rounded end of each half.
Mark the joint right below the nail as well as the knuckle joint by carving out tiny horizontal wedges of cheese, as pictured.
For the fingernails, slice a green bell pepper into 3/8-inch-wide strips. Set the strips skin side down on your work surface and trim the pulp so that it's about half as thick. Then cut the strips into ragged-topped nail shapes and stick them in place at the ends of the fingers with dabs of cream cheese.
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CRUNCHY EYEBALLS
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Set out a platter of these creepy peepers, and your Halloween party guests are bound to do a double take.

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Ingredients
Carrots
Cream cheese
Pitted black olives
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Instructions
Simply slice carrots into 1-inch-thick chunks, top each with a blob of cream cheese and one half of a pitted black olive, and serve.
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EYEBALLS ON A FORK

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These scary-good Halloween treats, prepared and eaten on the same fork, begin with a doughnut hole dunked in white chocolate.
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Ingredients
2 (11-ounce) bags white chocolate chips
12 doughnut holes
Semisweet chocolate chips
Tube of red decorator frosting
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Instructions
To coat a dozen doughnut holes, melt the white chocolate chips over low heat (and keep the chocolate warm while you work). With a fork, spear each doughnut hole and submerge it in the melted chocolate to coat it, then gently tap off any excess.
Stick a semisweet chocolate chip with its point cut off onto each doughnut hole, cut end first. Place the forks (handle side down) in a mug and allow the chocolate coating to harden.
Use a tube of red decorator frosting to add squiggly veins radiating out from the pupils.

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Have a Spooktacular Day!
~Danae <(:o) aka 'Crafty'