A Creepy Halloween Menu

At your upcoming Monster Mash, be sure to serve a creepy menu of snacks to your guests.  It’s quite easy when you transform ordinary every day snacks into ghoulish ones by simply renaming them.  Write the spooky names with chalk on black heavy cardstock and place next to each bowl of goodies:

1.     Baked Skeleton Bones (Pretzel Sticks)

2.     Bat Brains (Popcorn)

3.     Bloated Ants (Raisins)

4.     Boiled Lady Bugs (Red Jelly Beans)

5.     Braised Beetles (Milk Duds)

6.     Candied Spider Eggs (Gum Drops)

7.     Cheesy Owl Eyes (Puffed Cheese Balls)

8.     Chocolate-Dipped Houseflies (Chocolate-Covered Raisins)

9.     Compressed Cobwebs (Chex Brand or Similar Cereal)

10.  Crumbled Bat Wings (Blue Corn Chips)

11.  Deep Fried Fingernails (Bugles Brand Snacks)

12.  Dehydrated Dragon's Wings (Doritos)

13.  Dirty Shoelaces (Black Shoestring Licorice)

14.  Dried Seaweed (Chow Mein Noodles)

15.  Earthworm Knots (Miniature Pretzel Twists)

16.  Flattened Slugs (Corn Chips)

17.  Freeze Dried Drops of Blood (Red Hot Candies)

18.  Ghost Guts (Mini Marshmallow)

19.  Goblin's Belly Button Lint Balls (M & Ms, Any Style))

20.  Plops of Pigeon Poop (Yogurt Covered Raisins)

21.  Rat Claws (Shelled Sunflower Seeds)

22.  Roasted Snack Eyes (Peanuts)

23.  Shredded Lizard Gizzards (Coconut)

24.  Splintered Turkey Bones (Shoestrings Potato Chips)

25.  Toasted Cat's Eyes (Blanched Almonds)

26.  Vulture Toenails (Candy Corn)

27.  Witches' Warts (Chocolate Chips)

Other yummy treats to make that are also quite festive include:

Bat Wings, using one dozen chicken wings, create a marinade using 1 c. soy sauce, 1/3 c. honey, and 1 tsp. ginger. Marinate overnight and grill or BBQ.

Chocolate Spiders, melt some chocolate chips in the microwave. Add dry Chow Mein noodles to the melted chocolate and mix together. Spoon onto grease-proof paper as little blobs and add two mini M&Ms for eyes. Place in the fridge to cool.

Dip pretzel rods into chocolate and rolled in orange and black sprinkles for special Halloween Wands.

Rice Krispie Pumpkins: Add orange food coloring to the Rice Krispies and make a batch. When cool, roll into balls and decorate faces on them. Use shoelace licorice for a mouth, green gumdrop for the stem, mini M&Ms for the eyes, and a "red hot" for the nose!

An Edible Swamp.  Make a bowl of Jell-O and before it sets, add in gummy worms, bugs, and fish for a swampy treat.

Jack-O-Lanterns. Toast English Muffins, add orange food coloring to cream cheese to make a pumpkin spread. Spread the cream cheese on the English Muffin and have the kids take raisins and make pumpkin faces on them.

Jell-O Jigglers Make a batch of Jell-O Jigglers using orange and lime flavors. Use pumpkin, witch, and bat cookie cutters for a quick festive treat.

Scary Sugar Cookies. Use Halloween cookie cutters to create a batch of scary sugar cookies. A party activity can include having the kids decorate these Halloween characters.

Spooky Sandwiches.  Halloween cookie cutters can also be used to cut out spooky sandwiches.  Fill them with blackberry jam and cream cheese. Add chocolate chips for eyes!

Serve all sorts of gummy candies, i.e. worms, spiders, etc. You can throw these into a mix of popcorn and chocolate chips for Bugs in a Bowl.

Now, there’s a batty menu!