Halloween Food Ideas

Halloween Menu Ideas

When creating your Halloween menu you want to make sure it reflects the spirit of the festival

Halloween: 101 Frightfully Fun Ideas

1. The fun from your Halloween theme can be created from the names you give your dishes:

You can use almost any of your favourite recipes, but choose a ghoulish name to terrify your guests and make them really curious as to what it is they’re about to eat. Dracula's Favourite Bloody Burgers, Ghoulish Goulash, Witch's Brew, Hobgoblin's Delight, Black Cat Stew, Diabolical Chile, Witch's Fingers, Spooky Soup and Creepy Rolls are some mild suggestions to get your imagination started. It is a good idea to produce a written Halloween theme menu that sets out the various dishes on offer, and it is sure to get the conversation flowing as your guests speculate on what they’re about to be served.

2. Some traditional dishes:

There are some traditional dishes with a Halloween theme that you can call on, such as Mexican Day of the Dead tacos. The traditional Irish Halloween dish is a fruit bread called brambrack, which was baked with coins, rings and pieces of rag included to use for telling fortunes.

3. And that pumpkin:

The pumpkin features large in Halloween, because of the jack-o-lantern cut out ghoulish faces made with pumpkins. If you are entertaining at Halloween you will almost certainly have made a few jack-o-lanterns and have plenty of pumpkin flesh available. Popular Halloween pumpkin menu items are pumpkin soup, pumpkin muffins and pumpkin pie, but there are many other options as well.

Here are a few pumpkin recipes:

PUMPKIN MUFFINS (20 servings)

Ingredients:

Method:

1. Preheat the oven to 375 deg. F.
2. Grease two muffin pans.
3. Sift the dry ingredients and rub the butter into this.
4. Beat the eggs, pumpkin and milk together.
5. Add to the flour mixture and stir until just mixed.
6. Spoon the dough into the muffin pans
7. Bake for 20 minute at 200 deg. F.

Tip.

 The secret of successful muffins is not to mix the dough too much.

PUMPKIN LOAF

Cooked, well-drained pumpkin is used.

1. Preheat oven to 350 deg. F.
2. Grease two 6-cup loaf pans and line them with wax paper.
3. Beat the sugar and oil together until mixed.
4. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Add the mashed pumpkin and mix well.
6. Sift the dry ingredients together.
7. Stir the flour mixture and water alternatively into the pumpkin mixture.
8. Pour the batter into the pans.
9. Bake for about 1 ¼ hours.
10. Allow to cool slightly in the pans.
11. Turn out onto a wire rack, remove the wax paper carefully and allow to cool completely.

PUMPKIN CROQUETTES 

1. Bake or steam the pumpkin, pass through a sieve, add butter, salt, pepper, and egg yolk.
2. Form into croquettes and fry in deep oil.

GLAZED PUMPKIN

1. Peel and parboil pumpkin in salted boiling water for 15 minutes, then cut into slices lengthwise and put into an ovenproof dish.
2. Cook ½ cup brown sugar, ¼ cup butter and ¼ cup hot water together for 5 minutes.
3. Pour over the pumpkin and bake in a moderately hot oven of 375 deg. F for about 20 minutes, or until nicely browned, basting occasionally with the syrup.

4. Seasonal apples:

Seasonal apples have also been closely linked to Halloween, especially through such popular games as bobbing for apples in a basin and trying to eat an apple on a string without using your hands. These games could be made part of your menu, or you could just include apple dishes to reflect the traditional Halloween associations.

5. Name the dishes for Halloween:

Children have a fascination for food associations that are perhaps less than attractive, but good fun in the spirit of Halloween. Spaghetti is often associated with worms, which brings some cemetery humour to your table. A risotto can similarly be presented as a maggot dish. Tomato soup can become Halloween Vampire's blood soup.

6. Use imaginative decorations:

With some effort on your part, meringue can be shaped into small white bones. Cup cakes can be topped with spiders made using icing, sweets and liquorice for the legs. Iced cookies with the letters RIP iced onto them inserted into a chocolate mousse dessert can be made to resemble a graveyard. A cake can be iced with a spider web pattern, and decorated with a large hairy plastic spider. Brownies or other squares can be iced with white icing to make tombstones. Bread sticks with a sliver of almond at the end resemble witch's fingers. Halloween theme cookie cutters can be used in your baking. Let your imagination run riot.

7. Your table setting:

Your table setting can also be used to frighten your guests. Halloween decorations such as skulls, bones, spiders and the like liberally spread among your serving dishes add to the scary atmosphere. With proper care for hygiene and the safety of small children, in some places you can buy strange inedible decorative things that are suitable to include in your dishes, such as artificial eyeballs to float in the soup.

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