Spooky Food...with Recipes!

It's the end of our week long Halloween Pinterest Challenge!! It seemed to go by so quickly!!  We wouldn't be us if we didn't have a food post - and we have some great recipes to share. 

Let's start with dinner - we wanted simple food, that would be fun to make for a party.



Mummy Calzone: 
1 can crescent rolls
4 Tbsp Pizza sauce
1 cup Shredded cheese
1 cup of Toppings (We used salami, red peppers and green onions - but you can use anything you want.  Just chop them into smallish pieces.)
**The amount of toppings, cheese and sauce are estimated - use as much or little as you want.**

Lay the crescent rolls flat, with the large sections touching.  Press them together to form a solid bottom about halfway up.  Mix all your toppings together with the cheese.  Spread pizza sauce along the crust and spread the toppings out.  Tuck the bottom up and crisscross the ends over and then under the next piece.  We used a little of the extra thick sections for the head, and sliced salami for the eyes.  Bake at 350 degrees until golden brown - about 15 min.

Beth:  I love how well this turned out.  The original recipe called for making your own crust, which I didn't have time for.  The crescent rolls were perfect for a fast, easy alternative.  They are ready to eat in about 30 min and are fun for kids of all ages!!

Veggie Graveyard:
Any crust, Baked and Cooled - You can get or make any crust you want to.  We used crescent rolls, pressed together and rolled at the edges.
Ranch dressing
Chopped veggies
Chopped lettuce (We grabbed a chopped salad bag from the store - it had lettuce already cut into small pieces - but you can do it yourself)
Crackers shaped like headstones (We used Annie's Saltines)
Black 'ink' - You can dye ranch dressing, or use gel frosting if they aren't going to be eaten.

Cover the bottom of your baked and cooled crust with ranch dressing.  Spread the chopped lettuce out and top with chopped veggies.  Use the blank ink to write RIP on a few crackers, and place them in the veggies. Ta-Da Done!

Beth:  I'm sure you noticed there aren't any measurements - that's because you can make this in any size, with any amount of veggies.  It's fast, easy and even kids will want to eat their veggies on a 'pizza'.

Jack O'Lantern Cheeseball:
2 - 8oz room temp cream cheese
3 thinly sliced green onions, reserve about an inch of one the tops thick and thin.
1 - 8oz fine shredded cheddar cheese, divided 
1/4 cup small diced red bell pepper
2 slices of pepperoni for face

Mix the cream cheese, green onions, 1 1/4 cup cheddar cheese and bell pepper with a hand mixer.  Put mixture in refrigerator for 1 hour.  Roll the mixture into a ball, then press the remaining cheese onto the outside of the ball.  Take the 2 slices of pepperoni and cut into triangles for the faces, decorate how ever you like.  Use the reserved green onion tops to make a stem.  It's ready to eat! Serve with crackers - bread rounds and vegetables would be great with this too!

Felicia:  If you haven't figured it out yet I like pumpkins...a lot!  When I saw this on Pinterest it got pinned right away.  I actually also have a whole recipe book on cheese ball creations.  This was a perfect match!

Bat Wontons:
Wonton wrappers
Cream cheese - we used chive and onion cream cheese.
Oil for pan frying or deep frying

Scoop about a Tbsp of the cream cheese onto the middle of a wonton.  Wrap two kitty-cornered ends over the cream cheese.  Twist the remaining to corners and point upwards.  Pan-fry or deep-fry the wontons.  Once cooled slightly, dab some cream cheese and use peppercorns to make eyes. 

Beth:  I have to say these were so good!!  They were easy to make ahead of time and took just minutes to pan-fry.  Just be careful - you will want to eat all of the ones you make!!  I was pretty glad we only made 12 Lol...

And now for dessert:

Halloween Bark:
White Chocolate Chips (or really any form of white chocolate)
Orange Oreo Pieces
Candy Corn
Candy Pumpkins
Pretzel Sticks
Candy Eyeballs
Anything else you would like to add

Melt the white chocolate and spread into a thin layer on parchment paper or cookie sheet.  Mix all of the other ingredients together and spread over the chocolate.  Press down so they will stick.  Let it cool, then break it up onto any size. 

Beth:  Super easy and so fun to pick what you want to include.  The eyes were just creepy enough and because they were soft and jelly-ish they were a surprise when you bit into them! 

Witch Hat Cupcakes:
Waffle Cones
Black Food Dye + 2 additional colors
Chocolate Wafer Cookies or similar cookie type
White chocolate chips
Chocolate cupcakes - baked and cooled completely
Frosting

We made the cupcakes and frosting ahead of time.  You can use your favorite recipes.  We recommend these if you don't have a favorite yet - for the chocolate cake and for the frosting.

To dye the cones black you will need something to hang dry the cones.  I used orange peel sticks, but skewers or anything like that would work.  Then I turned a BBQ pan that had round holes over and stuck the sticks through the holes.  It worked great, but you can use anything you have or just set them flat on a piece of parchment paper.  Once you have this figured out, add a small amount of black dye to water in the bottom of a flat dish (I used my 9x9 casserole) - you only want a thin layer of liquid so it doesn't end up inside the cone.  Using the stick, I rolled the cones around in the water until they were the desired darkness.  I then let them dry overnight - the outside gets really soggy so I wouldn't recommend doing this the same day you want to use them.

Dye part of your frosting green and use it to attach the cookie to the bottom of the cone, then add a band around the seem.  Place a white chocolate chip tip end in for the buckle.

Dye the rest of the frosting purple.  Frost the cupcakes and place a hat on top.

Beth and Felicia:  We knew we wanted to make cupcakes and fell in love with the witch hats.  We divided the work up so it wouldn't be too much work for either of us.  Next time we hope we can find larger chocolate wafer cookies, but we are really happy with how they turned out!!

Candy Corn Meringues:
4 egg whites
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar
1 1/3 cup of sugar

food coloring, orange and yellow

piping bag or plastic bag like ziplock
large round tip

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.  Prepare 2 half sheets with silplats or parchment paper.  In a large bowl, beat egg whites until foamy then add salt and cream of tartar.  Continue beating until soft peaks form.  Start your timer for 7 minutes, during that time add sugar slowly. 

Divide into three amounts - large, medium and small.  Tint the largest amount yellow and the medium orange.  These don't expand so you can make them close but not touching.  Pipe the yellow first, then pipe the orange on top of the yellow and repeat with the plain meringue.  They should look like candy corn.  Bake for 2 to 2.5 hours.  I ate mine right away but usually you wait for a day. 

Felicia:  So I rushed this recipe.  If you follow these directions you shouldn't have a problem.  This needs a day to rest as well, if you can wait.  Even though today is Halloween, you can change the shape and colors for upcoming holidays!!

We voted the Wonton Bats as the Tastiest Thing We Made, and the Pumpkin Cheese Ball and Witch Hat Cupcakes tied for Best Looking!! :)

There you have it - the end of our Halloween Week!  We had a lot of fun and are glad we could share it with every one!!

Have a safe and fun Halloween!!

The Three Peas