What kinds of treats or food do you all eat at your Halloween Parties?

I always make a giant jello shooter out of my brain mold
We make Carmel corn,lil'smokes(chopped up fingers)
(a bucket of mud and worms)Pudding,oreo's,whipcream,gummies in a cool bucket.


What do you make?

Happy Haunting!!!

This is my first party in a long time, and my first Halloween party as a grown-up (giving). We're making a big pot of chili (have to fight over who gets to make it) in a big cast iron dutch oven and having "fixins" -- Fritos, cornbread sticks, crackers, cheese, chopped onions, etc. -- on the side. Since money's tight, and most people will offer anyway, I'm asking everyone to bring something to share. I doubt it will get more elaborate than that this time around, but I doubt people will complain. The people that used to have a party most of these folks went to never served any food at all.

Oh, and it's a bad movie night, so we'll have popcorn (probably a few different kinds), soda, etc. It's BYOB if people want. If no one volunteer to do dessert, I'll do cupcakes.

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". . . he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was--a woman." Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

We usually do a 'meat head' You take a plastic skull, cover it with red fruit roll ups, then cover it with luncheon meat and put on egg eyeballs and fake teeth....once the guests eat a layer of meat, there is the muscle (fruit roll ups) underneath. We usually put a tray of cheese and crackers next to it. Its pretty gross and people love it! I found the recipe here:http://carlah11.tripod.com/page4NEW.html

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!"

Doesn't the meat make the fruit roll ups taste.....weird?

"something's underneath my bed....."

one thing i found which tastes good and looks gross is this jello dish. Make YELLOW jello according to the directions. Put the jello in a glass bowl or something like that. Let the liquid cool down a bit and get 100 grand candy bars. There is 2 in a pack so get like 2 packs. Throw the candy in the bowl. Then put the bowl in the refrigerator. One the liquid becomes jello, you are done! Then place it on the table and get a roll of toilet paper. Pull some and put it on the side of the bowl (dont rip the piece off the roll!). Put the roll on the side next to the bowl. Its done!

Now you have someones toilet mess that tastes good! lol

The biggest hit last year was the chocolate amaretto fondue with sliced fruit (strawberries, bananas and pineapples) for dipping. I did placards for all the food with appropriately Halloween-oriented names. Can't remember what I called the fondue, though... Oh! And, of course, the "Vampire Punch", which was a sangria that really packed... well, a punch. I was really surprised how well it went over.

I'm still tinkering with this year's menu, but so far I have:

Crackers & Spinach/Artichoke dip (Mold dip)
Chips & Salsa (blood clot dip)
Buffalo Wings (bat wings)
Deviled eggs (monster eyes)
Finger sandwiches (um... finger sandwiches)
Sliced fruit with cool whip/cream cheese dip (Organ cuts and dip)
Chocolate covered strawberries (piped chocolate to make chocolate covered spiders)

And some recipes from perfectentertaining.com:
Baked monster eyes (mini tacos baked in mini muffin tins)
Pus Stuffed Peppers (jalapeno poppers)
Bleeding cupcakes (chocolate lava cakes)

Mandy-

No one actually ate the fruit roll ups, its just there for the creepy effect.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun the frumious Bandersnatch!"

We have some geat ideas!!!

The meat head made me laugh.It sounds delish,yum yum!!

Hey I can make the jello recipe I live in Utah the jello capital of the world.People in Utah are known for there jello creations.And I have toilet paper to spare.LOL

Chili and corn bread sound great!!
I have a recipe for skull bread to go along with that.
You make bread and shape it like a skull and cross bones then bake it.Our theme for are party is Pirates.

Any more great ideas?

thanks everyone for sharing there ideas.

Happy Haunting!!!

We did the "meat head" one year, though we used jello jigglers as the first layer to hold the meat. It was a big hit and something some people remembered (as being really disgusting) .

I usually have a "jello hand" and just some really easy but hearty snacks as I don't want to be doing a lot of cooking before the party. Sausage balls are yummy and look pretty gross too - and I have some of my friends bring appetizers to help.

I usually have some non drinkers at the party so I do try to have a non alcoholic punch - but I do use the "frozen hand" in the punch ( a rubber glove filled with colored water or juice).

Madame Pleather

Oh now see....I would eat all the fruit roll ups...love that stuff....

"something's underneath my bed....."