Specialty Halloween candies often take grotesque forms, but foods you make for a Halloween party can do the same.
Eyeballs, severed fingers, ground-up guts--they don't sound like anything you would want to find on your plate. But at a Halloween party, such ghoulish snacks are the order of the night, although you'll want to provide more innocuous Halloween-themed treats for your more squeamish guests.
Tapeworm Sandwiches
Tapeworm sandwiches look like a bun filled with slimy worms. Yet, those "worms" are only hot dogs and ketchup. Put water in a pot to boil. Cut the hot dogs into long, worm-like strips, and heat them in the boiling water. Toss the hot-dog strips in ketchup when they are thoroughly heated, and load them into hot-dog buns.
Eyeball Doughnut Holes
Frost doughnut holes with white icing. Stick a Lifesaver candy to the top of each doughnut hole to make an iris. Place a small, dark candy, such as an M&M Mini, in the center of the Lifesaver to create a pupil. To make the eye look more horrific, squeeze a few lines of red icing or gel on the eye, making capillaries.
Gravestone Cookies
Make sugar-cookie dough, then roll it out. Add black food coloring if desired. You can use gray icing later instead, made from white icing and black food coloring. Use a gravestone-shaped cookie cutter. Bake the cookie dough as recommended in your chosen recipe. Pipe the names of your guests on the "gravestones."
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