Who doesn’t love a great Halloween party? What is one of the best parts of the Halloween Party? The gross but yummy food of course. Make your next Halloween party a hit with these fun spooky Halloween food ideas for kids
Fun serving idea- Make a sign for each platter you make!
Band-Aids
Materials: Graham crackers, white frosting, red food gel (in the baking aisle), band-aid box
Step 1: Carefully break the graham crackers along the lines to get thin pieces.
Step 2: Put a little bit of frosting in the center.
Step 3: Add a dot of red food gel in the center so it looks like blood, eww
Step 4: Place them on a platter with a band-aid box in the center.
Boogers on a Stick
The kids love this one!
Materials: Pretzel sticks, Cheese Wiz, green food coloring, parchment or wax paper
Step 1: Heat up the Cheese Whiz according to the label.
Step 2: Add a couple of drops of green food coloring to the Cheese Wiz. Mix them together until you get the green color that you like
Step 3: Dip the pretzels into the green cheese and allow it to dry on parchment or wax paper.
Step 4: Place on a tray, serve.
Ghostly Brownies
Materials: Brownie mix, large marshmallows, red food gel, white frosting, cupcake tin, wax or parchment paper
Step 1: Make the brownies according to the box.
Step 2: Fill cupcake tins halfway with brownie mix, bake for about 15 minutes on 375. They are done when you can stick a toothpick into the brownie and it comes out clean. Let brownies cool.
Step 3: While the brownies are baking, draw a face on each marshmallow using red food gel.
Step 4: Heat up some white frosting in the microwave until it is a little melted. You do not want it to melt too much. Just enough where you can pour it over the brownies.
Step 5: When the brownies have cooled down, place them on parchment or wax paper.
Step 6: Pour some frosting over the brownies and stick a marshmallow on top. As the frosting cools it will harden and the marshmallow will stick.
Mummy Mini Hot Dogs
Materials: Cocktail hot dogs, Pillsbury Crescent Rolls, black food gel, pizza cutter
Step 1: Unroll the Pillsbury Crescent Rolls and cut them into skinny strips using a pizza cutter.
Step 2: Wrap strips around the top of the cocktail hot dogs. Leave a space to make a face, then continue to wrap strips around until it looks like a mummy.
Step 3: Bake until dough is light brown.
Step 4: Using the black food gel, draw a face on your cocktail hot dogs.
Gruesome Finger Cookies
If you want spooky Halloween party foods you must make these gruesome finger cookies. I scare kids every year with these!
Materials: Finger cookie tray, green food coloring, raspberry jelly, shaved almonds, sugar cookie or cream cheese cookie dough
I used the cream cheese cookie recipe and they came out great! 2 1/4 cups flour, 3oz cream cheese, 1 tsp spoon vanilla, 1 egg yolk, 1 cup of sugar, 1 cup butter. Cream the sugar, butter, and cream cheese. Next, add vanilla and egg yolk, then add the flour
Step 1: Add a couple of drops of green food coloring to get the color you like. I only used a little so the fingers looked a little dirty.
Step 2: Sprinkle some flour into the cookie tray and bake. Check repeatedly until cookies look golden brown.
Step 3: When the cookies a completely cool, put a little jelly at the trip of the finger and place a shaved almond on top.
Lollipop Display Ideas
Kids love lollipops. Having a lollipop display would be an awesome addition to your Halloween party.
Lollipop Display idea #1
To make the above display I purchase a witches cauldron. I placed a round styrofoam ball (purchased on Amazon) inside the cauldron. I purchased a large bag of blow pops and inserted them into the styrofoam ball. All finished easy peasy!
Lollipop Display Idea #2
I used this lollipop display for younger children. I’m always afraid to give young children blow pops because of the gum. For the first step, you will need tissue paper. I used purple. I used enough purple tissue paper to fill the cauldron to halfway. Next, I used the three bags of candy corn I purchased and filled up the cauldron to the top. Last I put lollipops and spiders on top.