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I wish you happy Halloween!
I wish you crazy night!
Let’s put ours costumes: monster, queen…
Let’s go and joy tonight!
Good day, Rum Diary readers! Costume parties and theme parties require special preparation, and this also applies to our theme: drinks and snacks. Halloween is approaching – a holiday that for some reason has become very popular in our latitudes. The question arises: what cocktails and snacks to prepare for Halloween, how to decorate them, how to create a “creepy” atmosphere with their help?
In this article, we will try to collect the maximum of Halloween snacks with pumpkins, spiders, bones and other “nightmares”. About cocktails for the “bourgeois” holiday is written here. Since we are talking about snacks, there will be a minimum of cookies and muffins here.
A selection of photo ideas for Halloween snacks here
Halloween Snack Recipes
Snake
If you have a party in the style of “beer and hot dogs”, then it will perfectly fit into the concept of a move-dog in the form of a snake. Of course, finding a curved bun is problematic, so the easiest way is to bake it yourself (you can buy the dough or make it yourself). The filling, as usual, to your liking, on top you can decorate with multi-colored bell pepper, cut into strips. We make eyes from green olives, inside the olives a drop of ketchup, fix with toothpicks. In front we make a mouth for the snake and stick a long forked tongue from bell pepper. By the way, you can make blanks for such sandwiches in advance, and before the party, just warm them up in the oven and then immediately decorate them.
Witch broom
Simple Halloween Broom Snack:
- Salted sticks (you can buy at almost any kiosk);
- Hard cheese or cheese for sandwiches (square);
- Green onions
If we take ordinary hard cheese (we need a plastic one that will not crumble), then first we need to cut it into thin squares, and then make cuts on one side, without cutting it to the end. We wind it on a stick, we tie it with green onions!
By the way, you can make a simplified version – we break dark salty sticks into small pieces and tie them with green onions to sticks of a lighter tone. Done 😉
Spoons
Egg cold appetizers are a classic, and if you decorate them in a certain way, they make a great Halloween appetizer! Boil the eggs, cut into two parts, remove the yolk. After that, mix the yolk with any other ingredients you wish: mayonnaise, cheese, garlic, sauce, fish, meat, etc. We fill the halves of the eggs with the resulting mass and decorate the top with olive spiders.
Pizza “Mummy” on buns”
Many who prepared dishes for Halloween know that the main thing is to properly decorate. It practically doesn’t matter what ingredients the appetizer will be prepared from, it’s more important to give it a “festive” look. So, for example, a properly decorated pizza can be a great beer snack and help create an entourage.
You can decorate as a large pizza (ingredients of your choice) or small buns that are pre-cut in half. Below is tomato paste, at the level of the “eyes” – circles of black olives with a “pupil” of bell pepper, green beans or green olives, on top – cheese, laid out in strips on the entire surface, except for the “eyes”. You can prepare in advance, put in the oven or microwave before serving.
You can also make mummy toast, mummy sausages, etc. A few photo ideas:
Ripe pumpkin cheese
Great appetizer for beer and different cocktails for Halloween. You can serve cheese “pumpkin” with bread, chips, nachos, toast, as well as salty cookies, which I will write about below. Optional – delicate white sauces if desired.
So, we take 100 grams of soft goat cheese, a package of cream cheese (Philadelphia or a more inexpensive analogue), 250 grams of cheddar (or other spicy cheese), a little chopped green onions, garlic powder, oregano and grind it all in a blender until smooth.
We give the resulting mass the shape of a ball and make hollows, to resemble a pumpkin. The tail can be made from a straw, a piece of a pretzel, or whatever is similar at hand, and a leaf can be made from a sprig of parsley.
Cheese pumpkin balls
Another delicious cheese appetizer with a “pumpkin” theme is small pumpkins with paprika. For them you will need a glass of grated cheddar, a package of cream cheese, garlic powder, black pepper, roasted red pepper (a few tablespoons). We mix these ingredients and cool for 2 hours, after which we roll balls from the resulting mass, roll them in paprika, make cuts to resemble a pumpkin. The appetizer is laid out on crackers, as a tail we use a sprig of green onions.
Cookies “Fingers of the Witch”
It is interesting that practically the main thing in Halloween snacks is their form, but you can do whatever you want with the content. Cookies can be made sweet or savory, with spices (and serve with sauces), or with spices (and served with jam, preferably red 😉 ).
Sweet cookie recipe:
Beat 150 grams of butter together with 200 grams of sugar and vanilla. Beat for about five minutes, then add the egg. Add salt, baking powder (1 tsp) and flour (about 350 grams). Knead the dough, which should be quite firm and not too sticky. We remove the dough in the refrigerator for half an hour.
After that, we form long finger-shaped blanks from small pieces of dough, make “folds” on the “phalanxes” with a knife or other convenient object, grease with melted chocolate and press the “nail” – almonds, peanuts or other nail-like nuts. Bake for 20-25 minutes at 180 degrees.
Cookies “Bone”
If you don’t want to bother with the dough, then you can buy ready-made yeast dough in the store and make cookies of various thematic shapes out of it. We divide the dough into small pieces, form bones from them, sprinkle with rosemary and coarse sea salt. If you want to make sweet ones, then powdered sugar is useful, which can be sprinkled on the “bones” after baking (by the way, you need to bake until golden brown, about 10-15 minutes). Bones can be lightly sprinkled with cheese.
