Do you make any special treat for Halloween?

[dem in texas]

When my kids were young, I'd go all out for Halloween, even did it when grandkids came along. I made eyeball cookies, worms in blood sauce and kitty litter cake, just to name a few.

My mother, who had a special dish for every holiday, would make spice cup cakes. She would ice them with a lemon buttercream frosting and put on raisins for eyes and mouth and a piece of corn candy for the nose, so they'd look like jack-o-lanterns.

Now, I don't do anything special. No kids at home, so the fun is gone.

[No Vested Interest]

1. Sad to say, I get very few youngsters in the last few years. - Maybe 4-8 total

We used to get at least 25, sometimes 50.

For that reason, I buy candy that I'll enjoy myself when it's left over.

[w0nderer]

2. would it put any fun back into it

to share recepies for the above (eyeball cookies, and so on) ?

the ones that aren't family 'could tell you but i'd have to kill ya' secret at least?



the only thing i do for halloween, is decorate the outside of flat but i do that with
transparent glass bottle skulls full of (lightstick contents)
and so on

and i do keep a big jar of sealed candy for trick or treaters
oh and i dress up, can't answer the door in plainclothes

my former sister in law would make horror image (frosting glued?) windowpane candy
amazing to watch and tasted really nice too (jolly ranchers pretty much from what i understand but so very pretty

[dem in texas]

6. Lots of Gross out food recipes on the internet

It was about 1o or 12 years ago when I made the kitty litter cake, now it is the favorite gross-out cake for Halloween and the recipe is posted on the internet many times. It makes are large cake, enough for 15 to 20 people.

For eyeball cookies, there recipes for these on the internet too. We first made these cookies years ago before the internet was around. We made a basic sugar cookies and cut the dough in rounds. We iced the cookies with a white icing with a dab of chocolate frosting in the center. Let the cookies dry so the icing is set, then take some undiluted red cake coloring and using a soft fine paint brush, paint in the blood veins so you have blood-shot eyes. Yum! Yum!

For the worms and blood, we cooked pasta, cut in short pieces and mixed with tomato sauce.

There are so many fun things you can do with the food for a Halloween party. Just let your imagination run wild, making some really gross food, knowing that it will never be eaten, it just adds to the theme of the Halloween party.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

3. Not to hand out, anything I'm handing out, if edible, comes in pre-sealed packaging.

I don't expect parents to let their kids eat anything that isn't factory-sealed and unable to be unwrapped and rewrapped.

And I'm not going to hand out stuff just for them to throw it away.

I do enjoy browsing recipes this time of year.

stuffed peppers:



meatloaf hand with onion bones and nails and a cheesy burnt skin.

[MrMickeysMom]

5. LOVE the meatloaf hand!!!

Must be on monster mashed potatoes!

[dem in texas]

4. More like Halloween party food, not for Trick or Treat

I guess we've always had a lot of Halloween parties and made crazy. icky food for these parties. That is what I was thinking about. For trick or treat, I am like everyone else, just hand out pre-sealed candies.

We used to do crazy things for Halloween. One year, instead of bobbing for apples, we had bobbing for body parts (used rubber dolls from the thrift store, took them apart and sprayed with blotches of red paint (for blood). Had a friend dress as a fortune teller and used a Ouija board. Another time, we went to the old country cemetery that is a short walk from my house to look for ghosts. None found, but everyone had fun.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

7. Something brought out of memory in another group:

From a company potluck many years ago.

1 gallon jar pickled hard boiled eggs
1 gallon jar pickled beets

Remove 3-4 eggs from jar and reserve.
Pour out pickling liquid from eggs into clean jar to reserve.
Transfer 3-4 beets from beet jar to egg jar, and pour pickling liquid from beet jar into egg jar.
Put reserved eggs into beet jar, and pour reserved pickling liquid from egg jar into beets.
Close both jars, and place in refrigerator for 2 weeks.

Option: Add 2 - 3 whole pickled jalapenos to Egg jar, for a bit of heat.

Enjoy

The egg whites will color to a deep red, and the yolks will become a REALLY evil looking greenish purple.
Fun times to be had by all.

I guess that I'm weird; I happen to like pickled beets, so there's no waste.

[Nac Mac Feegle]

9. Made a trip to the store today

For the ingredients. Photos not taken, the kitchen is a disaster. I'll try to get some of the end product, and post them.
I have a Group meeting the 31st, and they are in for a surprise.

Any suggestions on what I should call them?

Pickled Alien eggs? Zombie eyeballs?

I know the aftermath will be designated Hellfarts, in honor of the holiday.

[Nay]

8. I made kitty litter cake several times and grossed everybody out. The

melted Tootsie rolls for cat poops were just . . . too realistic! Only severely demented people like me enjoyed it.

I also make bat sugar cookies now that I have a little grandson.

[eridani]

10. We live in a cul de sac with a hill climb

When we first moved here 32 years ago, we thought Halloween treats would be a nice way to meet the neighbors. No such luck--no trick or treaters until the 10th year. By that time we had quit getting candy, but one little girl and her dad made it up the hill that year. Did an emergency improvisation with a baggie full of bulk cashews that we had around. Nobody has come since then.