How to Make Halloween Party Food

Categories: Society & Culture | Holidays | Halloween

  • Introduction

    Although many Halloween recipes focus on gross recipes designed to make guests squirm, Halloween party food can be thematic, without reminding guests of guts and gore. Emphasize the lighter aspects of the season to develop a Halloween menu suitable for all ages.

  • Step 1: Think Pumpkin

    Pumpkins and Halloween go hand and hand. While pumpkin pie decorated with pie crust cut out bats, or pumpkin soup decorated with ghostly dollops of sour cream or creme fraiche would be appropriate, why not serve individual meat loaves baked in small pumpkins?


    Pumpkin Meatloaf Ingredients

    • 2 pounds of your favorite meatloaf recipe, mixed but not baked
    • 8 individual pumpkins

    How to Make Pumpkin Meatloaf

    1. Preheat oven to 350 F.
    2. Wash pumpkins.
    3. Cut top off pumpkins and set aside.
    4. Scoop out seeds
    5. Fill pumpkin with meatloaf
    6. Replace top.
    7. Place stuffed pumpkins in a roasting a pan.
    8. Add water to the roasting pan so that it reaches a third of the way up the pumpkin.
    9. Bake for 1-1/2 hours, or until meatloaf reached 155 F on a meat thermometer.

    This recipes uses pumpkins that will hold about 1/4 lb of meat. If you can't find pumpkins that small, you can use a larger pumpkin, and increase cooking time accordingly.

  • Step 2: Think Fun

    Halloween is a time for all of us to step outside of the box, don a costume, and have fun. Halloween party food should be fun, as well. This recipe for mini witch's brooms transform pretzel sticks and fruit leather into transportation for tiny witches!

  • Step 3: Select a Centerpiece

    You can use Halloween food as a focal point for your table. You could use a large pumpkin as a soup tureen, make a gingerbread haunted house, or make this recipe for a Jack O Lantern Cake. You'll need two bundt pans.

    • Witches' Brooms Ingredients

    • Fruit by the Foot
    • Thin pretzel sticks
    • Water

    How to Make Witches' Brooms

    1. Cut a 2-inch length from a roll of Fruit by the Foot.
    2. Fringe one of the longer edges of the Fruit by the Foot, leaving 1/4 inch unfringed.
    3. Dip your finger in water and moisten the unfringed long end of the Fruit by the Foot.
    4. Tightly wrap the Fruit by the Foot around one end of the pretzel stick.
    5. Repeat until you've made as many brooms as you need.

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    Jack O Lantern Cake Ingredients

    • 2 bundt cakes, baked and cooled
    • 6 cups of vanilla icing
    • Orange and green food coloring
    • Yellow fruit leather
    • Black decorating gel in tube with writing tip
    • Flat bottom ice cream cone

    How to Make Jack O Lantern Cake

    1. Color 1 cup of the icing green
    2. Color the remaining frosting orange.
    3. Cut out Jack O Lantern features from fruit leather and set aside.
    4. Place one bundt cake on a serving plate, flat side up.
    5. Frost the flat side, and place the other bundt cake on top, so the flat sides match.
    6. Frost the sides and top of the cake completely with the orange frosting.
    7. Frost the ice cream cone with green frosting.
    8. Insert the cone into the hole at the top of the cake for a stem.
    9. Place the fruit leather pieces on the side of the cake for the Jack O Lantern face.
    10. Trace around the fruit leather with the black decorating gel to outline the features.