This isn't the year for big ,lavish Halloween dos;. A smaller one with just the family is not only budget affordable but nice and comforting.There's something cozy about having a fun meal with family or a very small group of friends. You can still have the Halloween themed foods - just without all the hullabaloo.
What's a party without pizza. You can easily create one with ready made dough and sauce. Pillsbury along with stores like Stop and SHop and Acme sell premade tubes of dough. Have the kids - or friends - create fun jack'o lantern faces using peppers and olives. You can also used cut salame and ham for the face if you;'re into meat lovers pies. Another fun idea is jack o lantern stuffed peppers.These are regular stuffed peppers.It's just carving out faces in bell peppers. Stuff them with a fun chili like stuffing. Add a good pinch of garlic /pepper blend into the ground beef , turkey or plant based meat. You can top them with slices of cheddar cheese too. This brings to mind jack o lantern cheeseburgers. Cut out two triangles and a crooked smile on cheese and place on grilling burgers.The cheese should melt all over the burger creating a pumpkin effect. A totally different twist is serving the elegant pumpkin soup. THis is a tasty blend of pureed pumpkin, sauteed onions, chicken or veggie broth and whole cream. This is the perfect potage for a chilly fall night.
What about desserts? COnsider graveyard pudding cups that are mini trifles of layers of crushed chocolate cookies and chocolate pudding.Take Pepperidge Farms Milano cookies and write RIP on them to represent tombstones. You can also turn the cups into pumpkin patch by switching in a few candy pumpkins and gummy worms.Another idea is pretzel pumpkins. Tis is dipping small pretzels in orange white chocolate and letting them set .They'll resemble pumpkins when they dry. Add green icing leaves. A fun spin on a caramel apple is a stuffed baked apple. Core four apples. Layer, chopped caramel, butter and chopped nuts in the core area. Microwave for a couple of minutes and serve with either whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. ANother idea is a caramel apple cone.Layer ice cream, chopped apples tossed in cinnamon and caramel in a waffle cone. You can also do a Halloween treat bag cone. Add any flavor ice cream and layer with mini M&M;s mini Reeses cups and brokem candy bar pieces. Add some syrup if you want or add a chocolate hard shell or it.
Halloween is always more special if spent with family and a small group of friends. Have a tiny party with good food and desserts. It Amy be your most memorable one.
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