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Halloween party—Food ideas

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I am just compiling next week’s menu plan and it’s exactly a week today to halloween!!!  I have been trying to think of penny pinching halloween food, it’s got to be cheap, as I am trying to stretch out our food budget till we get our salaries next week! Here are some of my ideas, my 11 year old son is getting really excited!!   I think we will eat first, then just as it’s getting dark we are going to watch a really scary dvd!!! 

mini pizzas - cooked scabs
mini sausages - dead mans fingers
cheese puffs - well there are orange so go with halloween
egg sandwiches - chopped up brains in bread
tomatoe ketchup - blood of course
use liquorice laces to make spiders webs on cakes

Warlocks wands - Chicken satay sticks
Vampire soup - Red pepper & tomato soup
Hounds of hell - Either chilli or curry
Witches fingers - Cocktail sausages
Gremlin balls - Melon balls
Creepy cakes - Fairy cakes
Goblins bones - Chicken drumsticks

Ghostly Goulash— see my goulash recipe

  Drinks:   Bugs Blood:

Mix 1 litre of cranberry juice into a jug with 250ml of orange juice. Top with lemonade or sparkling water.

 Witches brew - Hot punch

lime juice and cherryade

October 24, 2007 - Posted by pennypincher | Halloween, cakes & puddings, cookery, food, menu planning, money saving tips, recipes, retro collection | | 5 Comments

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  1. “cooked scabs” made me squeal in disgust!!!

    Comment by Wendy | October 24, 2007

  2. You can make pumpkin bread, cook them as cupcakes or even regular cupcakes with a little bit of orange food coloring and frost them orange, use food coloring in regular icing if you wish and make faces with candy such as licorice and make a stem with a pretzel stick. Not exactly scary, but it is festive =)

    Comment by bri683 | October 26, 2007

  3. hi bri683,

    thank you, but how do you make pumpkin bread, never heard of it??

    Comment by Megan | October 26, 2007

  4. INGREDIENTS

    * 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
    * 2 cups whole wheat flour
    * 2 cups white sugar
    * 1 tablespoon baking powder
    * 2 teaspoons baking soda
    * 4 eggs, beaten
    * 2 cups pumpkin puree
    * 2 teaspoons salt
    * 1 cup butter, softened

    DIRECTIONS

    DIRECTIONS

    1. Butter two 9×5 inch loaf pans. Preheat oven to 350 degrees (175 degrees C). Place oven rack in lower 1/3 of oven.
    2. In a large bowl, combine the white flour, whole wheat flour, sugar, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well.
    3. In a separate bowl, combine the pumpkin, eggs and salt. Add to flour mixture and blend in softened butter or margarine one tablespoon at a time.
    4. Divide mixture between 2 pans. Bake until golden and cake tester comes out clean, about 45 minutes. Invert onto racks and cool.

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    Just take this recipe and apply it to the muffin pans.. the baking time will be less, I couldn’t tell you how long, just keep an eye out for them to get golden and check them with a toothpick. It should come out clean if inserted in the middle of the muffin.

    Hope you enjoy =)

    Comment by bri683 | October 27, 2007

  5. bri683,

    they sound lovely, I always wonder what to do with all the left pumpkin!

    thank you for your recipe :)

    Comment by Megan | October 27, 2007

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