Update date: October 28, 2021.
Planning a “spooky celebration” for Halloween? Creative costumes and spooky decorations are just part of the festive atmosphere. Now is the time to stock up on food, snacks, and drinks for your Halloween party. The festive table should be disgusting, unappetizing and at the same time very tasty. If you think this is unrealistic, we are ready to dissuade you with the help of our crazy ideas for scary Halloween treats that can be easily prepared in 15 minutes!
Bottles with ghosts
Take clean glass bottles and stick scary faces cut out of black tissue paper on them. Fill the container with an orange drink - orange, carrot juice, Fanta. You can move away from the classic orange color and take any drink of a different color, experiment. Scary ghost bottles are ready!
Halloween Candy Ideas 2021
It is impossible to imagine this holiday without sweets and various treats. You can prepare such delicacies yourself by choosing one of the simple recipes. But the main idea of the dishes is that they have a non-standard and even frightening appearance.
For example, you can make such cool candies very easily.
Jelly with worms
Photo: lilluna
Make the jelly as directed in the instructions. Pour the jelly into cups and refrigerate for half an hour. Add the gummy worms hanging down the sides (this should be done when the jelly has cooled to prevent the worms from dissolving). Place back in the refrigerator until completely set. Add whipped cream and sprinkles before serving.
Jelly cake "Eye"
Try making a very simple but cool “Eye” cake. There are many options for this dessert, and it is made in literally 20 minutes .
Ingredients:
- There are two types of jelly - blue and black. You can prepare it yourself by adding dyes or syrup of a suitable color to the gelatin mixture.
- Gelatin – 15 g.
- Sour cream – 400 g.
- Sugar – 150 g.
- Vanilla sugar.
Step-by-step preparation:
- Prepare the jelly. Make the base for the pupil in one color and pour it into the cake container. Leave until hardened.
- Next, make jelly for the eye, pour it into the second layer, and leave until it hardens.
- Making a sour cream base. Beat sour cream with sugar, add vanilla and beat again.
- Pour the mixture into the mold and leave again until hardened.
- If desired, you can add jam to the third part of the cake, which will resemble blood.
You can also make interesting jelly desserts with eyes . To do this, just buy ready-made candies and put them in jelly.
Looks very interesting:
Banana ghosts and tangerine pumpkins
Photo: Pinterest
Stick a small piece of celery or cucumber into a peeled tangerine and you have a cute pumpkin! Cut the bananas in half, turn so the rounded part is upright, use chocolate chips to make the faces. Now you have a small army of Halloween ghosts!
Banana Ghosts
These bananas are ghost-pale thanks to the thick layer of white chocolate.
Cut the banana in half and then lengthwise to create four quarters. Insert a popsicle stick into the wide end of a banana, place on parchment paper and freeze for 24 hours. Add 100g white chocolate to a bowl and melt on the stove until smooth. Dip the frozen bananas into the chocolate and place them back on the parchment paper. Add dark chocolate chips for eyes while the white chocolate is still warm. Place back in the freezer for 2 hours.
Pumpkin Pie for Halloween 2021
We have already written about simple and very tasty pumpkin dishes. It is considered the main symbol of Halloween, so it is included in sweet and main dishes, it is included in salads, soups, and diet menus. It’s great if pumpkin becomes the queen of your table.
We offer a recipe for a delicious pie that even the little ones will love.
What will you need?
- 300 g pumpkin;
- 100 g butter;
- 150 g sugar;
- 3 eggs;
- 1 lemon;
- 1 cup wheat flour;
- 1 teaspoon of soda.
How to make your own pumpkin pie?
- First you need to peel the pumpkin and grate it on a fine grater. Squeeze out the juice.
- Remove the zest from the lemon and squeeze out the juice. There should be about 50 ml of fresh juice.
- Grind the butter together with the sugar. Add eggs to the mixture and mix.
- Add lemon zest, pumpkin, flour and soda dissolved in lemon juice to this mixture.
- Stir the mixture and place in the pie pan. It should be oiled.
- Bake for 40-45 minutes in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
- You can decorate your pie in a variety of ways. It all depends on your desire.
You can also cook the pie in a slow cooker, for which you just need to set the desired program.
You can also make delicious pumpkin muffins using this recipe as a basis.
Apple monsters
Another healthy Halloween treat idea for kids. Take the apples and use a knife to cut out the eyes, nose and creepy smile. Place these apple monsters in a container of clear drinks.
As you may have noticed, all of these snacks and drinks can be made in a hurry using a minimum of ingredients. Involve children in this “scary” activity and you will be surprised how many creative ideas swarm in their little heads, and they simply adore the theme of horror stories!
Author: Marina Verkhovtseva
Hello! I'm Marina, author of articles on the holiday portal RedMonkey. I really love the theme of weddings, parties, birthdays, and indeed any holidays. I am constantly looking for interesting ideas for a bright celebration and am happy to share them with you.
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Turkey pasta and meatballs - the all-seeing eye
To prepare minced meat you will need:
- minced turkey – 0.5 kg;
- grated cheese – ¼ cup;
- breadcrumbs - ¼ cup;
- ground black pepper – ¼ teaspoon;
- salt.
To prepare the marinade you will need:
- onions – 2 pcs.;
- ripe tomatoes – 1.2 kg;
- celery – 2 stalks;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- carrots – 2 pcs.;
- olives;
- salt and pepper;
- Bay leaf.
We start cooking with the marinade. To do this, take our ripe juicy tomatoes and remove the skin from them.
You can easily remove the skin from tomatoes by placing them in boiling water for a few minutes, then pouring them over with ice water. Don't forget to make a small cross-shaped cut on the tomato first.
In a frying pan, first fry the garlic and diced onion until transparent. Now add grated carrots and celery. After 10 minutes, you can pour the prepared tomato puree over the vegetables.
Don't forget to season the sauce with salt and pepper and add bay leaf.
Leave the sauce to simmer over low heat until thickened.
This may take a whole hour.
Therefore, let’s not waste time, but move on to preparing the meatballs themselves.
Mix all ingredients for meatballs.
Separately, cut the olives into discs.
These will be the eyes, which need to be carefully placed on each meatball, slightly pressed into the minced meat.
Pour the prepared sauce into a heat-resistant form and carefully place the meatballs in it.
Try to keep all eyes above the sauce level.
Cover the pan with foil and place in the oven for at least half an hour.
After this time, remove the dish and remove the foil. Bring the meatballs to readiness, uncovered, in the oven for another 10 minutes.
Boil the spaghetti and place the turkey meatballs with eyes on top. It is better to serve this dish hot and in portions.
Baked roll - the hand of a vampire
To prepare minced meat you will need:
- minced pork and beef – 700 gr.;
- chicken eggs – 2 pcs.;
- onions – 2 pcs.;
- carrots – 1 pc.;
- hard cheese – 100–150 gr.;
- ketchup;
- greenery;
- salt and pepper.
Prepare the base for meatloaf from ready-made minced meat, adding finely chopped onion, grated carrots, seasonings and herbs.
It is better to prepare the minced meat yourself from pieces of meat - this is a guarantee that the dish will turn out tasty.
We form a hand from the mass, laying out both the wrist itself and all the fingers. Now we cut out nail plates from the second bulb, which we put in their places. Stir the rest of the onion into a bone stump on the back side.
We coat the creepy hand with ketchup, and then cover it with sliced cheese.
The workpiece is ready - it’s time to send it to the oven, where it will spend the next 40 minutes at a temperature of at least 200 degrees.
Adjust the time depending on the capacity of your oven and make sure that the vampire hand roll does not burn.
Place the finished dish on a plate and serve immediately to the table, where hungry zombies and witches are eagerly awaiting treats.
Stuffed Spooky Peppers
To prepare the peppers you will need:
- spaghetti – 750–1000 gr.;
- minced meat – 1 kg;
- bell pepper – 10–15 pieces;
- tomato paste – 100 gr.;
- tomatoes – 2–3 pcs.;
- onion – 1 pc.;
- basil and oregano;
- salt and pepper.
In a heated frying pan, fry finely chopped onion and immediately add minced meat to it. We continue to cook over fairly high heat so that the water from the mass evaporates and the minced meat begins to fry. This will take 5–10 minutes, depending on the quality of the meat product.
Now add chopped tomatoes to the minced meat, from which we first remove the skins.
After frying the minced meat with tomatoes, add tomato paste and about half a liter of boiling water.
Salt, pepper, add all the seasonings and continue to simmer the meat sauce, now over low heat. It will take about another half hour to cook.
At this time, prepare the peppers themselves.
Take the number of peppers no less than the number of guests. Believe me, such a dish will not only be a wonderful decoration for Halloween - every guest will want to try the super scary pepper.
Cut off the tops and stems of the peppers and remove all the seeds. We rinse and use a very sharp knife to make holes in the shape of eyes and a lopsided mouth.
The peppers themselves do not need to be stewed or processed.
They will serve on the table as utensils, and not as an ingredient in the dish.
When the meat sauce is ready, boil the spaghetti in salted water and mix it with the minced meat.
Place the finished pasta with minced meat on the prepared peppers and, using a fork, pull the pasta out through the holes, giving the peppers an even more terrifying appearance.
Add more spaghetti to the peppers and sprinkle cheese on top.
Instead of spaghetti with minced meat, you can use pilaf or another hot dish as a filling for scary peppers.
Mystical mashed potatoes
This is not just a treat, it is a special substance for fortune telling. Mashed potatoes, of course, will be eaten after the ritual. But in order to do this, let’s think about how to combine two goals.
Firstly, we prepare the puree not according to the usual recipe, but add spinach or boiled carrots to the potatoes, which will give it an unnatural color.
Now we are engaged in secret predictions.
You can find food-grade plastic figures and place them in the resulting substance. Or you can cut out figures from raw vegetables yourself.
You can see how to do fortune telling on mashed potatoes and the meaning of the figurines in our article “Halloween: rites, rituals, fortune telling.”
And of course, try to arrange the mystical potatoes in an unusual way. Let it be a volcano with lava or a raging river.
Give your favorite dishes a spooky look. Surprise your guests with unusual Halloween recipes. Experiment with new, albeit creepy at first glance, tastes. And your vampires and witches, ghosts and zombies, Leprechauns and cats will not remain hungry, and will tell their friends for a long time about the most terribly delicious Halloween party.
