Make it a graveyard smash.
Serve up a freak show with these shockingly easy Halloween treats!
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Pumpkin Head Dip
MATERIALS
Carved pumpkin
Parchment paper
Toothpicks
Bowl of salsa
Guacamole
Dry ice
Chips
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Cut the top off a pumpkin just smaller than a serving bowl. Scoop out the inside and carve out a face with a large mouth.
2. Place the pumpkin on a large cutting board and slide a piece of triangle-like piece of parchment paper through the mouth. Secure it with a toothpick.
3. Fill the serving bowl with salsa and place on top of the pumpkin.
4. Line the parchment paper with a layer of guacamole. The jack-o-lantern should now look like it's throwing up (what a jackass, amiright). Scatter a generous amount of chips around the guacamole.
4. Place a cup of dry ice inside the pumpkin.
5. Just as the guests are beginning to arrive, lift up the serving bowl to pour water over the dry ice for a steady flow of spooky fog.
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Bleeding Vampire Drink
MATERIALS
1 cup water
2 tablespoons grenadine
1 tablespoon red food coloring
Plastic vampire teeth
Pipette or eyedropper
Lemon lime soda
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Combine water, grenadine, and food coloring.
2. Using a pipette or an eyedropper, fill the inner chamber of plastic vampire teeth with the grenadine mixture.
3. Freeze the filled vampire teeth.
4. Fill a clear glass with lemon lime soda or any other clear carbonated beverage.
5. Balance the fangs of the frozen vampire teeth on the rim of the glass.
6. The grenadine ice cube will melt into the drink and slowly turn the drink red.
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Shattered Glass Cupcakes
MATERIALS
2 cups sugar
¾ cup water
⅔ cup light corn syrup
Food thermometer
Baking tray
Parchment paper
Red velvet cupcake
Red gel frosting
INSTRUCTIONS
1. In a medium-sized pot combine sugar, water and light corn syrup.
2. Bring the mixture to a boil and stir. Once it reaches 300°F (148°C), take it off the burner.
3. Carefully pour the hot sugar mixture onto a pan covered in parchment paper. Smooth with a spatula.
6. Let the sugar mixture cool for at least 2 hours.
7. Slam the sheet pan on the counter to shatter the sugar glass.
8. Carefully insert the sugar shards into red velvet cupcakes.
9. Garnish the sugar glass shards with red food gel.
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Meathead Charcuterie
MATERIALS
Plastic skull
Plastic wrap
Prosciutto
Pickled olives
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Cover a plastic skull with plastic food wrap.
2. Use thin slices of prosciutto to cover the plastic skull. Leave the eye sockets, nose hole, and teeth uncovered.
3. Carefully make an incision on the plastic around the eye sockets. Insert pickled olives in the sockets to create the eyes.
4. Place the meathead on a platter and add cheese and crackers.
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Rotten Deviled Eggs
MATERIALS
8 hard-boiled eggs
Large storage bag
2 tablespoons black food coloring
1 cup water
3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 tablespoon mustard
1 tablespoon green food coloring
Black olives
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Use a spoon and carefully create cracks on eight hard-boiled eggs.
2. Place the cracked eggs in a large bag. Add black food coloring and water.
3. Close the bag, mix around and set aside for 15 minutes. Be careful not to break the eggs further.
4. Dip the eggs in clean water to clean off the excess dye and peel to reveal the cracked design.
5. Cut the eggs in half and separate the egg yolks from the egg whites.
6. Combine the egg yolks with mayonnaise, mustard and green food coloring.
7. Pipe the egg yolk mixture into the egg whites.
8. Cut black olives in half. Reserve one side to create the body of a spider and then slice the other to create legs.
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Skull Candy Apple
MATERIALS
Delicious red apple
Cake pop stick
Melted white chocolate
Red gel frosting
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Insert a cake pop stick through the top of an apple.
2. Using a piping bag and thin round nozzle, draw the outline of a skull's eyes and nose, then a squiggly line underneath. Fill in the outlines.
3. Drip red gel frosting around the top of the apple to create the look of oozing blood.
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Hot Dog Fingers
MATERIALS
Hot dogs
Small knife
Ketchup
Hot dog buns
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Carve out dashes across your hot dogs with a paring knife to make the knuckles.
2. At the top, draw a square with the paring knife and gently slice that square out to make the fingernail.
3. Cook the hot dogs and serve in a ~bloodied~ bun (it's ketchup, don't be gross).
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