Scary Spooky Halloween Food

Halloween food really takes the cake! Every festival has its own specialty – Easter Eggs, Christmas pudding and the tiered Wedding Cake vying with the Birthday Cake. Halloween recipes are choc-a-bloc with the makings of a witch’s brew that will thrill and delight all.

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Halloween is a time of great get-togethers and as such the Halloween party food is in equal doses soul shuddering and mouth watering. There are a shivering type of Halloween cakes – graveyard cakes, spider cupcakes and spine chilling Halloween desserts.

The creepy-crawly cakes have a cobweb design. The swirls of white chocolate can be drawn out with a toothpick to give a spidery effect. Raisins can be used as gleaming eyes. A carrot cupcake recipe can be sued to make mummy cupcakes. Special moulds are available for making pumpkin cakes. These are layered cakes with the outside covered with orange frosted icing drippings. Two Bundt cakes can be baked and sandwiched together with the top slightly flattened to look like a pumpkin.

A spidery cheesecake will delight both young and old. The white flat surface is designed into webs with swirls of brown chocolate. Liquorices can be used for legs and gumdrops for the eyes. Amongst the many types of Halloween food with slight innovations and changes can be baked the haunted graveyard cake with cookies resembling tombstones and cats and ghosts made from candy.

The most popular is the ghost cake having flaming red eyes. Eggshell halves make up the eyes by soaking two cubes of sugar in alcohol and placing these inside the shells. Just before serving touch a lighted match near the shells and watch the fun of the ‘eyes’ lighting up with a fiery glow.

Apart from cakes there are many other items to eat, like pumpkin seeds. While carving out the pumpkins, the seeds are kept aside. These can be substituted with peanuts also for making peanut brittle. The pumpkin seeds can be roasted, toasted or spiced with cinnamon and salt or sugar. The seeds are washed and cleaned before being placed on a clean baking tray. Sprinkle with salt before baking.

Halloween food is incomplete without spooky drinks. It is the only time of the year when it is permitted for the drinks to look ghastly. This is the time for gross goodies. The gory punch is perfect for the touch of eerie ghastliness.

To make a slimy looking green punch the trick is to freeze it in gelatin mould shaped like spiders, eyeballs or bugs. Glow sticks can be placed below it. With lights turned off the punch will begin to glow in the dark.

To make floating zombie hands that float, latex gloves are required. After washing and turning them inside out carefully fill these gloves with water. Fasten the wrists tightly with rubber bands. Hang them with fingers pointing downwards from the freezer shelf. Just before the party, ease out the gloves by running these under running water and then place it on the punch bowls. There is nothing to worry if a finger or two breaks off because it will add just another shiver to the gory effect.

Keeping dry ice below the punch bowl containing favourite fruit juices can create a smoky cauldron of witch’s brew. When hot water is poured on the dry ice, smoke will come out. But care should be taken that dry ice does not get into the punch or that children touch it.

The Halloween food table will be incomplete without blood spouting forth from a fountain. The trick is to make a blood red juice from gelatin coloured shooters and pass it through a fountain that can be hired from any party supplier firm.

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