Haunted Halloween Foods for All Ages

Halloween is an excellent opportunity to have fun and involve the kids in the kitchen. This season, whether planning a haunted house, a Halloween party, or just indulging in the spirit of the spooky season, we can help inspire you to create funny and delicious Halloween-themed foods kids of all ages will love.

Read on for eerie appetizers and ghoulishly delicious desserts that will surprise, delight, and scare your guests with how tasty they are.

Mummy Hotdog

Here's a delightful and super-easy recipe for a Halloween classic perfect for all ages.

Ingredients:

• Favorite hot dogs
• One package of refrigerated crescent roll dough
• Mustard or ketchup for decoration

How to Make:

1. Preheat your oven to 375 °F. Line a large baking sheet with parchment paper, then separate the crescent roll dough into four rectangles, pinching together seams if needed. Then, cut each rectangle lengthwise into long, thin strips.
2. Wrap a long strip of crescent roll dough around the hotdog to resemble mummy wrappings. Repeat with remaining ingredients.
3. Place on prepared baking sheet and bake until the dough is golden and cooked, about 12 to 15 minutes.
4. Using a toothpick, add 'eyes' by dotting each with ketchup or mustard, then serve.

Peanut Butter Apple Monsters

Only a few simple ingredients to make a healthy, adorable Apple monster!

Ingredients:

• Two granny smith or apples you have on hand, quartered
• ¼ cup of peanut butter
• About 40 pine nuts
• 1-ounce sharp cheddar slices or 1/4th of mango, cut into small triangles
• 8-16 candy eyeballs

How to:

1. Cut a 'mouth' or a wedge, out of each apple using a sharp knife. Fill the apple's 'mouth' with peanut butter. Next, press your pine nuts around the edges of your peanut butter for 'teeth,' then use the mango or cheese cut into triangles as tongues by pushing them into the peanut butter. Using a small dot of peanut butter, 'glue' the candy eyes onto the apple, and voila! Tasty treats without any tricks!

Spooky Deviled Eggs

Are you looking for the perfect deviled egg recipe for your next Halloween party? We've got several ideas you and your kids might love! If you already have a favorite deviled egg recipe, you can use that one, or you can use ours below:

Ingredients:

• 12 hard-boiled eggs, peeled, halved, whites and yolks separated
• ½ cup of mayonnaise
• 2 tsps of Dijon mustard
• ½ tsp salt

For Decorating:

• Purple, orange, and green food coloring
• Sliced pimento-stuffed green olives
• Curly parsley
• Black sesame seeds
• Pitted whole black olives

Instructions:

• Place egg yolks into a bowl, use a fork to crush them until no large chunks remain, then add mayo, mustard, and salt. Stir until thoroughly combined.
• Decide if you want to use one food coloring or all three. If using one food coloring, there is no need to divide egg yolks. If using all three, divide the yolks into three bowls evenly and add the food coloring into each bowl.

Evil Eyeball Deviled Egg:

1. Fill an egg white with the purple yolk mixture.
2. Slice pimento-stuffed green olives crosswise into pieces that resemble eyeballs.
3. Top each eye with an 'eye.'

Pumpkin Deviled Eggs

1. Fill an egg white with an orange yolk mixture.
2. Use a toothpick to draw lines that resemble the creases on a pumpkin
3. Add the pumpkin 'stem' by sticking a small parsley stem into the egg yolk's top.

Spider Deviled Eggs:

1. Fill egg white with green yolk mixture.
2. Cut black olives into 'spider body and legs' by cutting them in half crosswise or lengthwise. Use one or both halves to form the spider's 'body.' Cut remaining olives in half, then very thinly slice olive halves and place around the spider's 'body' as legs.

Halloween Chocolate Bark

The variety of toppings is immensely flexible. Use any traditional Halloween candy you love.

Ingredients:

• 1 lb of semi-sweet or bittersweet chocolate. It can be chips or chopped bars
• 1/3 candy corn
• ¼ cup of Halloween sprinkles and candy eyeballs

How to:

1. Line a rimmed baking pan with parchment paper.
2. Using a double-boiler, melt the chocolate, stirring frequently until just liquified and melted smoothly.
3. Pour melted chocolate into your lined pan. Spread the chocolate with a knife or spatula until it is ¼ to ½ inches thick.
4. Sprinkle the candy corn, Halloween sprinkles, and candy eyeballs evenly over the chocolate.
5. Allow to cool and harden at room temperature for at least two hours or until very firm. Break into pieces and serve!

Two Ingredient 'Pumpkin'

Here's a healthy Halloween snack you can whip up for yourself, your kids, or anyone within minutes with just two ingredients!

Ingredients:

• 1 3lb bag of Mandarin, Clementine, or tangerine oranges.
• A 2-inch piece of English cucumber or a stalk of celery

How to:

1. Peel Mandarins, Clementines, or Tangerines.
2. Cut roughly a ½ slice of cucumber or celery stalk, then lay the slide down and cut it into ¼-inch wide wedges. Trim the cucumber wedge or celery stalk until it resembles a pumpkin stem.
3. Place the stem down into the top middle of the orange, and that's it!

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