Fang-tastic Food Ideas for Halloween Happenings

Halloween Finger Food Ideas

• Chocolate-Dipped Marshmallow Monsters: Dip marshmallows in colored chocolate and add candy eyes and edible decorations for spooky creatures.

• Ghostly Popcorn Balls : Drizzle popcorn with melted marshmallow, shape into balls, dip in white chocolate, and add candy eyes for ghostly faces.

• Halloween Trail Mix: Make individual bags of themed trail mix by combining candy corn, pretzels, Chex, chocolate chips, Reese’s Pieces, and dried fruit.

• Monster Donuts: Simply cover chocolate donuts with edible eyeballs for this ghoul-rific treat.

• Mummy Dogs: Use strips of ready-rolled puff pastry to wrap around hot dogs for a mummy effect, bake, and then use honey to stick on tiny edible eyeballs – done! Pro Tip: Use string cheese instead of hot dogs for your vegetarian guests.

• Pumpkin Cheese Ball: Shape a cheese ball into a pumpkin and add a green bell pepper stem for a festive look. Serve with crackers.

• Witch Finger Cookies : Make sugar cookies shaped like creepy witch fingers, add almond slices for fingernails, and use red jam for a bloody effect.

• Witch Hat Mini Pizzas: Make mini pizzas and use bell pepper slices to create witch hat shapes on top.

• Vampire Garlic Bread: Make garlic breadsticks and add almond slivers as "fangs" for a vampire touch.

• Zombie Brain Dip: Make a creamy spinach and artichoke dip, then shape it into a brain-like mound. Add red food coloring for a gruesome effect.

Healthy Halloween Finger Food Ideas

• Candy Corn Veggie Tray: Arrange orange, yellow, and white veggies (carrots, bell peppers, cauliflower) in the shape of candy corn on a platter.

• Creepy Crawlies: Decorate mini sandwiches with edible spiders made from olives and pretzel sticks.

• Graveyard Guacamole: Make guacamole dip and use tortilla chips to make tombstones. Write spooky messages on the tombstones with edible markers.

• Mini Pumpkin Oranges: Draw pumpkin faces on easy-to-peel mandarin oranges or clementines with a black marker for a healthy and festive option.

• Monster Apples: Insert slivered almonds or sunflower seeds into apple slices to make them look like monster mouths with teeth.

• Monster Eyeballs: Stuff green olives with cream cheese or blue cheese and add a sliced black olive in the center for the pupil.

• Pumpkin Deviled Eggs: Use orange food coloring to tint the deviled egg filling and add chives or green pepper stems to make them look like pumpkins.

• Witch Broomsticks: Attach mini pretzel sticks to cheese sticks with a piece of chive or green onion to create cute witch broomsticks.

• Yogurt Tubes: Hand out yogurt tubes decorated with Halloween stickers or labels.

Halloween Drink Ideas

• Bloody Punch: Make a spooky punch using red fruit juice or a fruit punch mixture. Float gummy body parts or plastic eyeballs for added horror.

• Ghostly Juice Boxes: Decorate juice boxes with white tissue paper to resemble ghosts. Add googly eyes and a black marker mouth.

• Jack O’ Lantern Floats : Orange soda, vanilla ice cream, clear cups, and a black Sharpie are all you need for this creamsicle-tasting beverage.

• Marshmallow Ghost Hot Chocolate: Use an edible marker to draw ghost faces on mini marshmallows and serve up some ghostly hot chocolate.

Pro Tip: Use SignUp to enlist helpers to pitch in on the party food!

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