Another fun Halloween idea is Spaghetti and eyeball meatballs, served with severed fingers. For dessert I served spiderweb brownies. I used to fix this for my family when they were little.
I fixed this for fun for my family last year for our dinner on Halloween. My family got a kick out of it, even if they are all grown up. They did tease me and tell me that they weren’t in elementary school any more! LOL!
While looking over my shoulder while I was reading this thread yesterday, my oldest daughter said I should post the idea on the thread and asked if I would please make this meal for dinner on Halloween again this year!
Halloween Dinner
I just use my regular meatball recipe and push a stuffed green olive into each meatball with the open side sticking out before cooking them up. Serve with spaghetti noodles and your favorite spaghetti sauce.
For the severed fingers I use a can of Pillsbury breadsticks. I roll each breadstick into the shape of a finger and brush them with olive oil and a light sprinkling of garlic powder (or use garlic infused olive oil). Add a slivered almond at one end for the fingernail. For the other end, add red food coloring to a beaten egg and paint the other end to make it look a little bloody. Drips make them look even better, so you don’t have to even be neat about it. Then bake the breadstick fingers until lightly browned. For a party you can skip this last step and just serve them sticking up out of a shallow dish of your favorite Marinara Sauce.
For the spiderweb brownie, make your favorite brownie. (I like to use my round spring form pan, but you could really use any shape pan.) Then draw the spiderweb on top using either white frosting or melted white chocolate with a piping bag or a zip lock bag with the corner clipped off. For the spider on the brownie use any dome shaped chocolate candy for the body and thin cut pieces of black licorice for the eight spider legs.
This time of year I also make a lot of hot spiced apple cider. I usually set it up in my crock pot. I use a half gallon of apple cider, throw in 2 cinnamon sticks, 5 whole cloves and a piece of lemon rind. I heat it up on high until the cider is hot and then reduce the heat to low to keep it warm so it is ready whenever someone wants a cup to warm them up.
For a quick fix method fill a cup with apple cider and throw in a pinch of pumpkin pie spice and warm it up in the microwave.
Either way is delicious!
Sorry about the double post. I don’t know why it did that. It didn’t finish posting as quickly as usual, but I didn’t try to post it a second time. I guess every once in a while my computer hiccups when posting things here.