TRICKS, TREATS
&
BOO...TIFUL IDEAS
TRICKS
Food and drinks
A few
tastefully displayed
body parts on the table
will whet your guests' appetite.
Floating dismembered members
in the punch
is always a good idea
(fill well-washed latex gloves with water and freeze).
Freeze black pitted olives into ice-balls
(eye-balls?)
and
drop into Bloody Marys.
Be unusual with your usual party food:
Bloody popcorn
(mix a little red food dye in with the butter.)
Ghoulish green avocado dip
with plenty of chopped tomato.
Serve with hellishly fiery corn chips.
Tombstone sandwiches:
cut them to shape
(eat the leftover bits yourself!)
For the smaller guests
Ice Cream with bloody sauce
(raspberry or strawberry),
and
green jelly with gooey worms
will go down well
(drop the gummy worms in the jelly as it is cooling).
And to use up all that leftover pumpkin?
Pumpkin pie or soup, of course!
TREATS
Bloodshake:
~ 1 quart + 2 C buttermilk
~ 1 quart + 2 C vanilla ice cream
~ 3/4 C brown sugar
~ 3/4 C unsweetened pineapple chunks (reserve juice)
~ 3/4 C maraschino cherries
Combine first three ingredients,
and put reserved pineapple juice in a blender.
Blend until smooth and creamy.
Add more ice cream for a thicker drink.
Add pineapple and cherries,
and blend until cherries are chopped.
Serve!
Eyeballs:
~ 12 hard-cooked eggs
~ 1 can (4 1/2 oz) deviled ham
~ 1/3 C mayonnaise
~ 2 tsp. prepared mustard
~ 1/4 C drained sweet pickle relish
~ 12 pimento-stuffed olives, halved
Cut eggs lengthwise into halves.
Remove yolks; place in a small bowl.
Mash egg yolks with a fork,
and then mix in deviled ham,
mayonnaise,
mustard and pickle relish.
Season with salt and pepper.
Spoon the filling into the egg halves.
Garnish with the olive halves to make the
"eyeballs."
To make extra-scary bloodshot
"eyeballs",
use leftover ketchup packets
to drizzle over the eggs to make the
"eyeballs" more bloodshot.
Monster Eyes:
~ 1 container (8 oz) cream cheese
~ 6 mini bagels, split & toasted
~ 6 mini sweet pickles
~ decorative red icing
Spread cream cheese onto toasted bagels,
leaving the center holes in the bagels unfrosted.
Cut the mini-pickles crosswise in half;
insert (cut sides up) into the bagel holes.
Use red icing to add "veins" and "pupils"
on top of the cream cheese.
Dot the pickles with the icing as well.
Spiders
~ 1/4 C butter
~ 1 pkg. (12 oz) semisweet chocolate chips
~ 1 C butterscotch chips
~ 1/4 C creamy peanut butter
~ 4 C rice crispies cereal
~ Chow Mein noodles and red hot candies
Cover baking sheet with waxed paper.
Combine butter,
chocolate & butterscotch chips in a saucepan.
Stir over medium heat until the chips are melted
and the mix is well-blended.
Remove from heat.
Add the peanut butter and mix well.
Add the cereal, and stir to coat.
Drop mixture by rounded teaspoonfuls
onto baking sheet.
Insert the chow mein noodles for legs,
and add red hot candies for eyes.
Halloween Ghosts on Broomsticks:
1 lb White chocolate chips
1/2 c Tiny red cinnamon candies
12 Wooden sticks
Heat 2 inches of water to simmering,
not boiling, in the bottom of a double boiler.
Place the white chocolate chips
in the smaller pot
and set it over the pot of simmering water.
Cook on low heat,
stirring constantly
until the chocolate is fully melted.
Remove from the heat.
Cover 2 cookie sheets with waxed paper.
Arrange the wooden sticks on the waxed paper, 6 to a sheet.
Spoon ghost-shaped blobs of chocolate
onto the paper, partially covering each stick.
Press 2 candies into each ghost for eyes.
Freeze ghosts for 15 minutes,
or until hard.
Halloween Spiders
1 (12 Oz.) Pkg chocolate chips
1 md. Can chow mein noodles (may not need all of them)
Melt chocolate in microwave.
Stir in noodles.
Drop by spoonful onto waxed paper.
Add 2 M&M's for spider eyes.
NOTE: Add 2 to 4 tablespoons water,
if needed,
to thin chocolate
BOOOO TIFUL IDEAS
Idea #1
Serve your Halloween punch or spiced apple cider
from a large hollowed-out pumpkin.
Use a large ladle to serve in orange cups.
Idea
#2
Old tree trunks or cut sections of thick
limbs
make great stands
for your Jack O' Lanterns.
Idea #3
Hollow out mini pumpkins
and use as votive candle holders.
They are inexpensive and look really great,
you can even carve faces in them!
Idea
#4
Use clear food handlers plastic gloves
to freeze ice hands
to throw in the punch bowl.
It will keep it cold and look great!
Idea #5
Use apples for taper candle holders.
Choose small, round apples
that will sit stable on a flat surface
and remove the stems.
Cut a small round hole in the top of each apple -
deep and wide enough
to securely hold a taper candle.
Make sure the apples are shaped
so that they have a flat bottom,
so they won't tip over.
Idea
#6
Tie small glow sticks to string
attached to helium balloons
and let them sail over your house
for spooky lights in the sky.
Make sure to tie off the strings
to something solid
so they don 't get away!
Idea #7
Tie or sew glow-sticks
to your child's costume
so they can be seen more easily
in the dark.
You can also use reflective tape.
Idea #8
Instruct your children
not
to eat any treats
until they bring them home
to be examined by you.
Idea #9
Make sure
that any store bought costume
is fire retardant.
Nylon and other materials
used to make mass produced
Halloween costumes
is highly flammable.
Those made out of vinyl
can be particularly hazardous
Idea
#10
Using a rope type spider web,
add a giant spider!
If you place
a light source behind it,
a strobe or flicker light,
it will give the illusion
that the spider is moving!
Pam Gallo
Monster Mash Midi
