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Halloween Snacks and Recipes
by Jane Lake
Here's an interesting twist for breakfast on Halloween morning, or perhaps a mid-afternoon snack - jack o'lantern toast or English muffins, or "iced" pumpkin crackers. Not a traditional sweet candy treat - but appealing and tasty nevertheless!
We also have Halloween snack recipes for ghost toast, witch's punch, marshmallow spiders, Jack O'Lantern Fruit Salad, jello pond sludge and more.
Halloween Toast or English Muffins
Ideally, you need a pumpkin shaped cookie cutter to cut the toast, although I think you could get by using a drinking glass as the cutter, as my grandmother used to do when making biscuits.
Toast slices of bread or a split English muffin as you normally would, let cool for a minute, then cut into pumpkin shapes or circles. Spread with processed cheese (I used Cheese Whiz Light) or cream cheese colored with orange food coloring. Make the eyes with slices of stuffed green olives, raisins, a slice of marachino cherry or some other small, round tidbit.
I drew the mouth with Food Colour Markers
Jack O'Lantern Crackers
"Ice" any round crackers with processed cheese spread, and add a small piece of celery leaf, parsley, watercress or even a shred of lettuce as the stalk. Make the face with edible food writers, or as suggested for toast.

Marshmallow Spiders
These are easy enough for children to assemble themselves; you'll need a package of large marshmallows, pretzel sticks or chow mein noodles and mini M & M's or raisins. Have the kids push four pretzel sticks or noodles into each side of the marshmallow as the spider's legs. Use another stick to poke two eye holes in the marshmallow; insert M&M's or raisins into place as the spider's eyes.

Ghost Toast
Lightly toast white bread, spread with butter or margarine then let the kids sprinkle it with ghost dust (icing sugar). Or cut toast with ghost shaped cookie cutter, spread with cream cheese and add raisin eyes.
Halloween "Handy" Snacks
Fill a clear plastic food handler's glove by placing one or two pieces of candy corn or raspberry shaped candy in the tip of each finger, then filling the remainder of the glove with popcorn or cereal. Tie with yarn or raffia.

Spooky Witches Punch
Fill a clean rubber glove with orange juice, bend the fingers slightly and place in the freezer until solid. Mix up your favorite punch and add green food coloring. Serve the punch in a plastic witches cauldron or pumpkin; cut the rubber glove away from the frozen hand then float it in the punch.
Jack O'Lantern Fruit Salad or Pudding
Slice off the top of an orange, much as you would when making a pumpkin jack o'lantern. Remove the orange innards and chop the orange segments into bite sized pieces. Mix with fruit cocktail or your favorite chopped, fresh or canned fruit. You can now refill the orange with the fruit salad or set the fruit salad aside for later and fill the orange with vanilla, caramel or vanilla pudding. If desired, draw a traditional jack o'lantern face with food writer markers, or even a regular black marker (you won't be eating the orange skin). Serve in a shallow bowl with a spoon.

Pond Sludge
Fill clear plastic glasses with green jello. When the jello has almost set, add gummy worms, making sure a few of them are escaping over the rim of the glass. If desired, when the jelly has set, add a dollop of pond mud (chocolate pudding).
For more great Halloween recipes, see Kraft's Favorite Halloween Foods
Have a Safe and Happy Halloween
omg the withches punch one with the fingers was propbaably my favorite i mande it with my calss and they loved it other teachers should try i think im gonna do it again this year i hope that they will love it to you should thinbk of some more and some for other holidays that will be awesome and my recipe for witches punch was punch put orange slices in it and for the punch i think i made mine with 7 up and ginger ale i dont remeber but any of them would work or just by some punch at the store and then get some sherbert and the sherbert should make it be kind of fizzy looking i hope it works for you and it tasts really good and its great for a halloween party i think im going to make mine with the fingers this year that would be awesome
those are great recipes.
keep up the good work
i am a peace corp volunteer in kazakhstan and am going to throw a halloween party for my english club kids. this will be their first halloween experience! I was looking for recipies that wouldn't require a lot of work and ingredients (because ingredients are rare here) and i love your ideas! Thanks for having these available for free.
these are very interesting recipes. i might use one. you should come out with more creative junks food. lol. i love junk food. hahaha.
I think these ideas are great Me and my family are definitely going to have a spook tastic Halloween!!!!
than x to you
yours faithfully Melissa xx
I came up with this a few weeks ago, at my daughter's first sleepover.
Magic Monster Popcorn
Take a saucepan and coat the bottom with a few tbsp of cooking oil.
add unpopped popcorn kernels until bottom of pan is covered.
add twenty drops of green food coloring
pop until almost full, turn off heat, and let finish popping
let cool, add a bit of salt to taste, and enjoy.
The trick to this popcorn is that after it is popped and cooled, it looks like regular popcorn. However, when you start eating this treat, your mouth turns green for a little halloween trick added to the treat itself.
Cool Halloween recipe - thanks for sharing, Toni!
This is too cool...Just decided to make this for our kindergarten class We think that they will loooovvve this....thank you
That is really cool. Thanks a ton for sharing your recipe Toni! I can't wait to try it!!


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