Village Halloween

[Joanbunting Profile]

Just had a neighbour call round to say they are organising a big Halloween do at the weekend, throught the hameau.

We offered to let the ghouls in to our house because we can easily make it spooky - two elderly foreign spooks for a start!! I have skeletons (cardboard) and spiders and webs and my own witch outfit, don't ask

I thought about these:
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7786 ... l-biscuits

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1298 ... and-drinks

I took the precaution of buying some chocolate eyeballs from M&S but would like to do something horrible but savoury - any suggestions and any plans of your own??

[jeral Profile]

These savoury parmentiers make good finger food. The content can be varied if not child-friendly enough, perhaps including some "fly" or "beetle" currants/raisins and squashed peas for mould:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/ina- ... index.html

I love the filo(?) wonton ghosts on this link. The filling could be meat (beetroot red) or flesh-pink prawns; the asparagus coffins look easy enough (or something else green if asparagus isn't available/suitable).
http://vegspinz.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/ ... reats.html

Hot dog mummies' babies are so cute (everyone say Ahhh!): http://www.playsational.com/halloween-r ... g-mummies/. Like pigs in blankets but using a thin strip of puff pastry for the bandage, leaving a "face" area exposed with just two "eyes" visible (toothpick dipped in mustard or tom ketchup. You could also be "nasty" by eviscerating them by mounting on cocktail sticks

Strangely enough, the only food colour I currently have is green (useful for mould effect).

Have fun

[Joanbunting Profile]

Jeral I love the ghosts. I can't get wonton wrappers without a trip to Avignon but I think I could do something similar with filo.

I was also wondering if anyone has ever done toffee apple wedges rather than whole apples?? Many of our small people are , well, small and I always find whole toffee apples daunting and wasteful.

[jeral Profile]

Hi, my thought on toffee apple wedges would be alternatively to do pared down whole apples and of course save the (acidulated watered) offcuts for crumbles whatever.

If children are very young, they could break a tooth on sugar/water toffee but I'm sure you have a better recipe than the toffee apples sold in fairgrounds.

When I was very young, it was the toffee that I and my mates ate and the apple almost all went in the nearest bin anyway. I wonder if a melon baller might work if you want to mount mini ones on sticks? I'm not sure how I'd dip a wedge so that it was covered all round with toffee (and on a stick) without getting into a right mess with them.

Apple fritters would count as finger food - like onions rings which would too of course. Not sure how to Halloween-ise them, at least in a way younger children would recognise as relevant - smiley face (decoration) coming to save them from the ghouls and ghosts?

Edit PS: The reason we chucked the apple away at fairgrounds was because under the toffee there was a tough apple skin.