Here are a couple of other fun ideas for Halloween.
Stuff a pimento stuffed olive into your favorite meatball recipe before cooking to make eyeball meatballs. My children loved spaghetti with eyeball meatballs for Halloween dinner.
Make a snake shaped sandwich roll by using puff pastry, a package of crescent rolls rolled out into one sheet, or your own favorite dough rolled into an oblong shape. Top it with your favorite deli sliced meat and cheese and roll up into a log, pinching the ends closed. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. At one end poke a small hole for the snakes forked tongue (I use a piece of a red pepper to make the forked tongue) and push the tongue into place. Use two whole cloves pushed into the roll for the eyes. To give your snake stripes. Beat up an egg or two and divide into small cups or dishes. Put a few drops of food color into each one and beat together. Paint the log with the egg washesin stripes (Children love to do the painting on this one!) Bake in the oven until lightly browned and serve!
For a quick decorated chocolate cake cake or brownies, make a thick glaze using confectioner’s sugar and a drop of water or fruit juice. Fill a zip lock bag or icing bag with the thick glaze. Snip the tip of the ziplock or use a small rount tip with your icing bag so you can pipe three or four circles on top of your cake or brownies. Using a toothpick draw lines from the outside ring to the inside center of all the rings to make a spiderweb shape on top. Use a large black gum drop and black licorice to make a spider to sit on top of the spiderweb.
Those meatballs sound fun!
I saw one yesterday for baked rat shaped meatballs. They had little bits of black olives for the eyes and a strip of ham for the tail. I think I might try simmering them in sauce and using a half piece of spaghetti instead of a ham tail since it will absorb the sauce while cooking.