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Red Potion Punch
Ingredients:
1.3 liters Apple Juice
1.3 liters Cranberry Juice
1.3 liters Lemon-Lime Soda
How to:
Mix all of the juices together and serve over crushed ice.
Remember to dilute with water for younger children!
Dot a miniature marshmallow with a bit of red food coloring,
and float marshmallow on the top of the punch for floating
eyeball effect!
Creepy Popcorn Hand Activity
Materials:
8 see through plastic gloves
Popcorn
Curling Ribbon
Plastic spider rings
How To:
Have each guest stuff the glove with popped popcorn. Tie off
the glove with Curling Ribbon, and Place a Plastic Spider
Ring on the Ring Finger. Its that simple!
Meathead
What you need:
A hollow skull (they sell these in Halloween shops. The top
comes off and there is a space inside for candy or whatever)
Cherry or strawberry Jell-O mix
Cold cuts (ham and turkey look good)
Red or green food coloring (optional)
Eyes (optional)
This recipe is rather labor intensive and must be done ahead
of time! First, we prepared some red ice (water and food
coloring mixture) although green ice or no color at all
should work equally as well. We also modified our skull
slightly by drilling holes from the internal compartment to
the outside of the skull to allow for drainage.
Second, wash the skull completely, making sure that it is
clean enough to eat off of (which is what you will be
doing). I worked in two sections and put each section into
zip-lock plastic bags after I was finished. It is important
to store everything in the *freezer* until maybe an hour
before you serve it.
Third, prepare your Jell-O. I make mine in several pans and
make sure it is only 1/4" thick. When it has set up, you
will be slicing it up into 2-3" strips which can be layered
over the skull sections.
Fourth, cut up your cold cuts. I typically use thin sliced
meats and cut them into 2x6" strips but almost anything will
work. If you use ham, the head will look more natural but
using turkey looks like a zombie head. You can experiment
with other meats and see how they look. Even using a
combination of meats looks good.
Fifth, once everything is prepared, take the two halves of
skull and pick one to work on. I decided to go all out and
grabbed a pair of those spring glasses (the ones with the
eyeballs on springs) and cut the eyes out. I washed them and
placed them into the eye sockets, which gave the skull a
very interesting look. Layer the slices of Jell-O over the
skull and on top of it, layer the sliced meat. The meat will
act as a bonding agent to hold the whole mess together. It
will probably take 10-15 layers of meat to make the head
look "natural" and will probably take some practice to get
it to look right. Personally, I've learned not to put the
meat down in any pattern, just to have it crisscross and go
any-which-way.
As each half of the skull is finished, put it into a
sealable plastic bag and put it into the freezer. This keeps
the meat and Jell-O cold but keeps the moisture in the meat
from freezing solid.
About an hour before serving, remove the pieces from the
freezer. Fill the skull with the ice that you had prepared
previously and seal the two ends of skull together with more
cold cuts. I suggest putting it into the refrigerator to let
any ice that had formed in the freezer time to melt. Place
it on a platter of lettuce and serve.
The effect it gives is quite interesting. As parts of the
meathead are cut away, both the red Jell-O are exposed and
parts of the skull. The Jell-O also does melt somewhat and
starts to ooze through the meat. As the ice inside the skull
melts, it drains through the holes that I previously
mentioned and starts to pool on the platter.
Blood Red Ice
For deep red ice, try
cherry koolaid. Can even be frozen inside a plastic glove,
now this really adds some snap to a punchbowl!
Mystery Punch
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 teaspoon ground ginger
2 quarts apple cider
3 cups water
12 ounce can of frozen orange juice concentrate
Stir all ingredients together until well blended. Chill 1
hour. Serve cold with blood red ice mold (above) To serve
warm, after chilling, bring mixture to a boil, then simmer
for 5 to 10 minutes.
Creepy Deviled Eggs
Start with deviled eggs,
then make nasty faces on the yolk part with sliced green
olives for eyes and green or red pepper for mouth and
eyebrows.
Strained Eyeballs
6 eggs, hardcooked, cooled,
and peeled
6 oz whipped cream cheese
12 green olives stuffed with pimientos
Red food coloring or ketchup
Halve eggs widthwise. Remove yolks and fill the hole with
cream cheese, smoothing surface as much as possible. Press
an olive into each cream cheese eyeball, pimiento up, for an
eerie green iris and red pupil. Dip a toothpick into ketchup
and draw broken blood vessels in the cream cheese.
Bug Bites
Color creamcheese green,
put pickle slice on cracker, add lump of cream cheese and
stick in two almond slices to look like wings. Opt: add
small olive pieces to look like eyes.
Moldy Dinner Rolls
For Halloween parties try baking
little dinner rolls and put in enough green food coloring
that they look totally molded. Gross looking but good.
Spider Bread
Bread dough or package of pre-made
rolls
(optional) poppy seeds, almond slivers
(hard core optional) pesto or cheese/sausage filling
Seperate dough into individual rolls. Using floured
scissors, cut each roll in two. Cut one part into four
longish strips (for legs) and lay them across the other
part, pinching in the center to get the ends to all stick
out the sides. Bake as directed.
You can use the poppy seeds for eyes and the almond slivers
for fangs. When I made them I filled the body part with
pesto, and sausage and cheese. Anything you'd put in a
calzone will work, but be careful it's not too runny 'cause
it'll leak out!
Bleeding Heart Jello
The Preparation:
The heart is made from red jello with a some evaporated milk
added to make it opaque. The blood is honey or kyro syrup
with red food coloring added. Place the 'blood' in a small
ziplock plastic bag and submerged in the jello. I guess you
could use any mold for the jello but a heart shape really
looks special.
The Presentation:
A heart shaped mold sits innocently on a platter. When
pierced with a sharp knife it oozes blood red sauce. The
effect is disgusting , but not bad tasting. When you've
gathered everyone around for the cutting, be sure to use a
fairly sharp knife so it pierces the bag. Also, the best
effect is when the center of the heart is pierced, then the
knife is twisted. This oozes blood out of the "wound" and
looks gross!! If you have a "hearty" crowd that wants to dig
in, just remember to remove the bag!
Chuckie's Upchuck
2 teaspoons of butter or
margerine
2 medium onions chopped
16 ounces of cream style corn
2-10 ounce cans of cream of mushroom soup
2 cups milk
Whatever leftover vegetables you have in the fridge!
(tomatoes, green beans, mushrooms, cauliflower, etc)
Saute onions in the butter. Add everything else and bring it
to a boil. Simmer 5 minutes. Serve immediately with a barf
bag of course!
Tounges on Toast
8 slices white bread
8 slices bologna
Mustard
Cut each slice of bread into the shape of lips, with a slit
in the middle. Cut the bologna into strips that look like
tounges. Insert the bologna into the slits in the lips (so
it looks like the tounges are hanging out of the mouths).
Cover the bread with mustard and broil until the bread is
golden brown.
Dead Man's Meatloaf
Use your favorite recipe, but instead
of shaping it into a log shape it into a corpse. Legs
together, arms folded across chest. Bake as usual, but
before serving, stab the poor guy in the heart and dump
ketchup on him. Guaranteed to gross out just about anyone!
Gnarled Witches Fingers
1 T veg oil
4 boneless chicken breasts
1 cup flour
1 egg, beaten
1 c bread crumbs
Pitted black olives, halved lengthwise
Shredded lettuce
Grease cookie sheet with oil, set aside. Carefully cut
chicken breasts partway to create five fingers (the uncut
part will be the palm of the hand). Slice them a little
crooked for effect. Dust in flour, dip in egg, coat in bread
crumbs, broil 5 minutes each side til golden and cooked
through. Trim the tips with the olive fingernails and serve
on lettuce
Worms au Gratin
Worms: 6-7 oz egg noodles,
cooked with 8 oz spaghetti, broken into short pieces
Toss with: 2 T butter or margerine and 1 1/2 cups grated
process cheese or cheddar
Place in greased casserole.
Dirt: 2 slices whole wheat bread, toasted, crumbled into
tiny crumbs, 1 T butter or margarine, melted and 1/4 tsp
salt
Mix dirt ingredients together, sprinkle over worms. Place
under broiler for 5 minutes.
Finger Sandwiches or
Handwiches
Spread soft white bread with red
colored creamcheese and roll up and squish them lengthwise
in your hand. They come out looking like bony fingers. Put
cut up olive on tip for the fingernail.
Cupcake Rats
Take a toy rubber or plastic mouse/rat
and mold pieces of aluminum foil by pressing the foil over
the top of the rat, forming a foil cup that has the shape of
the rat on the inside, leave the bottom open and pull the
toy rat out. Make a bunch of these aluminum rat cups. Use
some additional foil to form legs so the molds sit open side
up on a cookie sheet. Spray the inside of the foil rat molds
with non-stick cooking spray and fill with chocolate cake
batter following the instructions on the box. Leaving the
molds on the cookie sheet for support, bake the rat cakes in
the oven, again follow box instructions, you may find it
helps to over bake them a bit. When finished baking, let
cool and pull off the foil mold and trim the bottom of the
cupcake rat with a knife so it sits flat. Use red cake icing
in the little squeeze tubes to inject (from the bottom) the
insides with a little gooey "blood", use licorice whips for
a tail and red cake decorating beads for eyes. You usually
will only get one rat per mold so make plenty of the foil
molds, they're easy to do. You can make these into bats by
adding wings made from Fruit Roll-Ups and leaving off the
tail.
Kitty Litter Cake
This is a long recipe, but so
real-like. If you have a cat, you may have a problem with
the first taste!
1 spice cake or german chocolate box cake mix
1 white cake mix
1 lg. pkg. vanilla instant pudding mix
green food color
12 small tootsie rolls
1 new kitty litter box
1 new pooper scooper
1 pkg. vanilla sandwich cookies
Prepare cake mixes. Prepare pudding and chill till ready to
use. Crumble cookies in small batches in food processor. Set
aside all but about 1/4 cup. To the 1/4 cup crumbs add a few
drops of green color. Mix with fork or toss in a jar.
Crumble cooled cakes into large bowl. Toss with half of the
remaining cookie crumbs and chilled pudding (just enough to
moisten, not soggy) Put into litter box
Put 3 unwrapped tootsie rolls in microwave and het till
pliable and shape ends so no longer blunt, curving
slightly...Repeat with 3 more and bury in the mixture.
Sprinkle other half of crumbs over top, scatter the green
crumbs over top (supposed to look like chlorophyll in
litter)
Heat 3 tootsie rolls in microwave until melted and scrape on
top of cake, sprinkle with crumbs. Take one toosie roll and
drape over side of pan, sprinkle with crumbs.
Place box on newspaper and sprinkle cookie crumbs around.
Serve with new pooper scooper. |
