Food for Halloween
Gail Allen
October 2017
Halloween is just around the corner and many people like to celebrate by having people over. And that means that at one point or another you will likely want to eat something. But of course, since it's Halloween, the food can't just be normal food. It must be fit for zombies, ghosts, ghouls and all kinds of creatures that come out on this last day of October.
I've collected a few options that I like to make and that you might think interesting too:
Spider Eggs
Clawed Cupcake
Mummy Cake
Frankenstein Cake
Teeth
Bloody Surprises
Halloween is just around the corner and many people like to celebrate by having people over. And that means that at one point or another you will likely want to eat something. But of course, since it's Halloween, the food can't just be normal food. It must be fit for zombies, ghosts, ghouls and all kinds of creatures that come out on this last day of October.
I've collected a few options that I like to make and that you might think interesting too:
Spider Eggs
- This is a fairly simple dish to make. All you will need is hard boiled eggs and olives. If you are boiling the eggs yourself, then put them in a pot, fill it with enough water to cover all the eggs and heat it to a boil. Take it off the heat and let it cool down for about 12 minutes with the lid on.
- Peel the eggs and cut them in halves. Cut the same amount of olives in half lengthwise. Place the halved olives on top of the egg. Now cut some more olives into stripes to use for legs for your spiders. Place them on the eggs so it looks like spider legs.
Clawed Cupcake
- Bake a cupcake with any recipe you like. Something that goes well with raspberry or strawberry is preferable.
- When the cakes have cooled, cover them with a circle of marzipan or fondant that covers the entire top of the cupcake. If you can get skin coloured fondant that is, of course, even better. With a knife cut stripes into the cupcake and make sure you raise the edges slightly. Fill the 'gashes' with strawberry or raspberry marmalade.
Mummy Cake
- Bake a round cake with any recipe you like and make an icing of your choice. The only requirement is that it must be possible to pipe it and that it should be white to beige in colour.
- For the mummy's eyes, you will also need biscuits - any will do, and melted chocolate. Cover the biscuits in chocolate by dipping them into it to get an even coating. Only one side will be visible, so the other side can be messy.
- For the cake, you should start by putting a thin layer of icing on the entire surface of the cake. Then put the remaining icing in a piping bag - preferably with a flat head, otherwise you will have to flatten your stripes with a spatula.
- Pipe stripes across the cake in overlapping stripes. Do not worry about making them uneven, this is a mummy, not a ballet shoe lacing. Leave a gap for the eyes.
- When you are satisfied with your mummy, put the eyes into the gap you created and put a dot of icing onto them to make a pupil, and then finish off with a small speck of chocolate in the centre of the pupil.
Frankenstein Cake
- Bake a square cake with any recipe you like and make an icing of your choice. Colour part of the icing green and part of it brown or black.
- Cover the entire cake in the green icing, and then draw a Frankenstein face with the dark icing.
- If you mix green colour into the dough of the cake, the cake will look great when cut too.
Teeth
- You will need red apples, mini-marshmallows and icing or peanut butter or some other sticky substance you think would taste good with apples.
- Cut an apple in half and keep halving it until you have thin slivers of apple. They should be no more than an inch thick, and thinner is good.
- Put two slivers onto a flat surface and cover the tops with icing or peanut butter. Place a row of marshmallows along the edge of one and place the other on top so that the icing is against the 'teeth' on both sides. Hold for a moment for the icing to set.
Bloody Surprises
- You will need melted chocolate and raspberry or strawberry jam, or some similar sweet and red preserve and cupcake liners.
- Put enough melted chocolate into each liner to fill the bottom and then brush the sides with chocolate as well. Alternatively, place the liner upside down after tilting it to the sides to cover the sides. Place them into the fridge to set. Give the sides a second layer of chocolate and place them back in the fridge to set.
- Now it's time to fill in the centre with the jam. Make a flat, round top of chocolate in approximately the size of the top of the cupcake, set that in the fridge and place it on top of the treat once it's filled. Give a top-coat of chocolate to seal everything in, and you are ready to serve.
- If you know from the start how big the tops will be, you can make the round tops while making the other chocolate parts for a faster creation.