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A Menacing Halloween Menu
Semi-homemade, but Not Semi-scary!
By Sandra Lee
For a heartier snack, hollow out a medium-sized pumpkin and use it to hold melted jack cheese. Use Halloween-shaped cookie cutters to cut chunks of French bread and cubed Del Monte new potatoes. Serve with other fun foods for dipping, like sweet midget gherkins, figs, pretzels and ridged potato chips. Turn smaller pumpkins into serving bowls, and use them to hold trail mix, orange and black M&Ms and candy corn.
Caramel Apple Dip:
Here's the adult version of bobbing for apples. Serve a big bowl of sliced green/Granny Smith apples alongside a bowl of caramel dip or caramel ice-cream topping and a bowl of chopped nuts. Guests can make their own bite-size caramel apples.
Spooky Snacks:
You'll get lots of leers when you serve these Creepy Crunchy Eyeballs, scarily simple to create with donut rounds, white frosting and candy.
For a snack your guests will scurry to sample, make a Spider's Nest Dip, garnished with a wicked web of plastic spiders. Serve with blue corn tortilla chips and watch guests go for bite after bite.
Fire up the cauldron. Any of these potent potions will have your most bloodthirsty guests gushing.
Witch's Brew:
Whip up a bubbling batch of brew by mixing lime gelatin and Mountain Dew or Canada Dry ginger ale in a pitcher. Add a viious volt with a spike of vodka. Place a block of dry ice in a plastic cauldron and set a punch bowl inside the cauldron, on top of the dry ice. (Cauldrons are available at your local party or crafts store, and you can find dry ice at ice cream shops or ice companies. Dry ice will burn skin, so be sure to handle it with gloves and tongs and keep it away from kids and pets!)
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