Halloween Food

When it comes to Halloween-themed Party Foods, you can let your imagination take over completely and create superb recipes for your Halloween celebration by creating creepy, crawly Halloween treats. Here are a few good and fast examples:

Rice Cereal Halloween Treats
The regular, run of the mill rice cereal treat can be turned into a sweet and unique Halloween treat by adding a few drops of orange food coloring (or a combination of red and yellow) into the marshmallow/butter mixture as it melts.  When you cut the treats into squares, add one candy corn to the top of each square.

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Marshmallow Haystacks
Here’s a great variation to the rice cereal treat recipe.  Replace the rice cereal with corn flake cereal.  Follow the instructions combining the cereal, melted marshmallow and butter mixture.  Mold the cereal mixture into the shape of haystacks.  Add an orange candy corn pumpkin to the top of each haystack.

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Candy Corn Ice Cream Sundae
Into one cup of partially thawed vanilla ice cream, mix in one tablespoon of candy corn (coarsely chopped) and one tablespoon of dry roasted peanuts (coarsely chopped).  Scoop into ice cream bowl.  Freeze until firm.  When ready to serve, drizzle caramel ice cream topping over the ice cream mixture, a dollop of whipped cream and some additional candy corn and peanuts.

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Halloween Napoleons
Thaw one sheet of frozen puffed pastry.  Divide the puff pastry into three equal sections and bake according to package directions. Crush enough Oreo cookies to make 1-½ cups.  Set aside. 

Prepare one package of vanilla pudding only add a few drops of orange (or combination of red and yellow) food coloring.  Set pudding aside.  Whip one small carton of whipping cream until stiff.  While whipping, add two teaspoons vanilla and one teaspoon sugar.

To build the napoleon, lay one sheet of baked puff pastry on serving tray.  Spread ½ of the pudding mixture on the puff pastry.  Sprinkle 1/3 of the crushed cookies on top of the pudding.  Spoon dollops of whipped cream on top of the cookies and follow by a second layer of puff pastry. Continue layering pudding, cookies and whipped cream. 

Once the third and last layer of puff pastry is set on top, spoon three small dollops of whipped cream (do not spread) and top with some additional crushed Oreos.  Slice and serve.