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Hello again, my most creative and inquisitive people! Do you know what it's like to feel pleasure and fear at the same time? If not, then you definitely need to read today's publication, because today we will talk about the most terrible feast of the year. More specifically, I’ll tell you what spooky and delicious Halloween dishes you can prepare for your guests!

Impressive Halloween Dishes: Recipes and Ideas

Let's start with the most important thing - the main dishes, which will become the main thing on the table, which means they are bound to impress with both their appearance and excellent taste.

Simple dishes for a large company

Eyeballs in bloody slurry

You probably know this recipe, but in its traditional everyday version. But we need to make it look terrifying. Therefore, we will cook in a special way and say the spell:

Put out your eyes, but don’t fade away,

Boil the red fragrant mash,

So that the guests remain well-fed,

Yes, we're happy.

From jokes to action. To prepare meatballs in tomato sauce we will need.

For minced meat:

• 0.5 kg minced chicken, turkey or beef.
• ¼ cup pesto.
• ¼ tsp. ground pepper.
• ¼ cup grated cheese.
• Breadcrumbs.
• 1 tsp salt.

For the sauce:

• 1 kg tomatoes
• 2 onions
• 2 cloves garlic
• 2 carrots.
• Bay leaf.
• Celery (a couple of stalks).
• Black pepper, salt.

First we will prepare the bloody “slurry”:

1. Grind the previously peeled tomatoes with a blender or three on a grater.
2. In a frying pan greased with vegetable oil, fry grated garlic and finely chopped onion. Add celery, carrots and spices there (also grate first).
3. Simmer this mixture for about 10-15 minutes, then add tomato puree and bay leaves (a couple of pieces) into the frying pan.
4. Stirring, simmer the sauce over low heat until thickened for about an hour.

Next, everything is simple: mix all the ingredients for the minced meat thoroughly, form small balls with your hands dipped in water. Cut the olives into rings. Pour the sauce into a special form and lay out the minced meat, decorate each with a pair of olives on top. The result was big-eyed meatballs. Place the pan, covered with foil or a lid, in a preheated oven and wait for about half an hour. We take it out, remove the foil and leave it open for another 10 minutes. Guests will be delighted!

Sliced ​​and delicious baked hand

Another hot, hearty dish will decorate your table. When finished it looks very realistic, like a real human brush. How to achieve such similarity? Pretty easy. So, DIY hand. Sorry for the tautology.

Ingredients:

• Minced meat 600-700 grams (any).
• 2 eggs.
• Greenery.
• Tomato sauce.
• Onions (2 pcs.)
• Carrot.
• Cheese (100-150 grams).
• Salt and spices to taste.

How to prepare the dish:

1. Finely chop the onion and grate the carrots.
2. Mix vegetables with minced meat, add egg, spices and herbs, knead well.
3. Now comes the fun part. Use your imagination and carefully place the minced meat on a parchment-lined baking sheet in the shape of a human hand.
4. Cut out “nail” plates from the second onion and press the blanks into each finger.
5. Lubricate the entire surface, except the nails, with ketchup.
6. Cut the cheese into thin slices and spread to cover the entire “brush”, excluding the nails.
7. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees and place our dish there. We wait a little over half an hour. Place it on a beautiful plate very carefully so as not to damage the shape. Bon, brutal, terrible appetite!

Salads

At least one salad must be on the table. So let it also correspond to our theme. I propose to decorate it with creepy layers of pink ham, in the shape of a human face from which the skin has been removed. I’ll attach a photo for clarity and share the recipe. However, the composition may be different, at your discretion.

Ingredients:

• Ham (about half a kilo).
• Cheese (300 grams).
• 4-5 eggs.
• Olives or olives.
• Mayonnaise for dressing.
• Food film.
• A mask made of thin plastic (any face-shaped).

Preparation:

1. Grate the cheese on a coarse or fine grater.
2. Cut the ham into cubes, about 1 cm or smaller. We leave some for decoration. In the finale, we have to make the thinnest slices and cover the entire surface of the salad with them.
3. Mix ham, cheese, boiled and chopped eggs. You can add fresh cucumber for more juiciness. Season with mayonnaise.
4. Now cover the surface of the salad laid out on a flat plate with cling film and gently press the mask into the shape of your face. Remove the mask and film. You should get a nose, chin, eyebrow line and depressed eye sockets. We lay out thin slices of ham using the papier-mâché principle. Place half an olive in the eye area.

Which of the guests do you think will be the first to stick a spoon in the face or poke a fork in the eye?

When the main courses are ready, the question invariably arises of what appetizers to prepare. After all, they are the ones who give the table a special elegant (in our case, terrifying) look.

Spider eggs

How? Have you eaten eggs with spiders yet?! Yes, this is the most squeaky thing now, a real delicacy, but what does it look like? Mmmm, a brutal appetite immediately awakens and you want to eat them all in one fell swoop. I think it’s not worth teaching you how to stuff. Anyone can mix a carefully removed yolk with mayonnaise, a piece of soft butter and spices. But I’ll tell you more about spiders.

We take 5-6 small olives and cut them into halves, carefully press the first one into the half of the egg already filled with “minced meat”, and cut the second lengthwise into 6-8 parts to make spider legs. We place them along the “torso”. All is ready!

Ghost Pizza

As you have already noticed, I tried to choose simple recipes so that you spend less time on preparation. The main and most important part is the presentation of dishes. They must really impress the guests. As a snack, I offer the simplest pizza on ready-made puff pastry, which can be bought at any store. Don't forget to defrost the sheets first, and then get creative!

You can roll out one layer in the shape of a skull. Then be sure to make holes in the shape of the eye sockets and nose. Design the second one as a little evil ghost. Here, too, be sure to make eyes from olives. The remaining ingredients are up to your taste. Bell peppers, ham, salami, boiled chicken, pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, squid, onions, but most importantly – cheese, there should be a lot of it.

Do not forget that the dough should be prepared for no more than 20 minutes.

Well, where would we be without a sweet dessert on such a terrible holiday? And here I have a couple of recipes for you in Halloween style and more.

"Not ladies' fingers: scary and terribly tasty"

Traditional cookies in England (I have a recipe in mind) will be just right for the table. They will be made in the shape of human fingers, which smell so good and instantly melt in your mouth.

We have to:

• A pack (200-250 grams) of butter.
• 100 grams of powdered sugar.
• 300 grams of flour.
• 1 egg.
• A third of a teaspoon of salt.
• A pinch of vanillin.
• Red jam.
• Baking powder (1 tsp)
• Whole peeled almonds.

Preparation:

• Beat the softened butter with a mixer or a regular hand whisk. In the process, add the egg and powdered sugar.
• Mix the flour with baking powder, vanillin and salt, then add to the butter-egg mixture.
• Knead the dough, roll it into a ball, wrap it in cling film and put it in the refrigerator for half an hour.
• From cold dough we fashion the likeness of human fingers. Keep in mind that they will expand in the oven, so make them thinner if you don’t want thick “sausages.”
• Pour boiling water over the almonds and remove the skin. Although you can leave it as is. Gently press a nut into each “finger” in the form of predatory nails. At the junctions (“cuticles”), squeeze out a little red jam from the syringe to make bloody smudges.
• Preheat the oven to 165 degrees, place your fingers on a baking sheet lined with parchment and bake. Remove after 20 minutes.

Our cookies are ready. If you tried hard, they turned out to look like witches, clumsy, curved with scary sharp nails. You can put them on a plate or use them as a decoration for dishes, cakes, pastries, and desserts. It is enough to stick such fingers into an ordinary pie and you will see a rather terrifying sight.

Gouge out your eye

This dessert will stare at the guests throughout the party, and when it comes to it, they will be horrified by surprise. A bloody filling awaits them inside! It will take about two hours to prepare, plus overnight in the refrigerator. But what a beauty it will be!

You will need a perfectly round bowl, and a few inexpensive ingredients:

• Sour cream – 500 grams.
• Milk – 200 grams.
• Sugar – 5 tablespoons.
• A pinch of vanillin.
• Gelatin (1 package).
• Apple or mint food flavoring.
• Apple juice (half a glass).
• Blue food coloring.
• Red jam or fresh cherries or strawberries.

Let's get started.

1. Let the gelatin swell in half a glass of water.
2. Mix the sour cream and milk thoroughly; you can beat it with a whisk or blender.
3. Add vanillin and sugar, mix again.
4. Dilute a little blue food coloring in a small amount of water or apple juice. You should get a rich blue tint. Separately, in a small glass, make a more saturated solution, from which we will prepare the pupil.
5. Place the swollen gelatin on the fire and stir constantly until it completely dissolves.
6. Now let's begin the creative process of “assembling” the eyeball together. Add most of the gelatin mixture to the sour cream mixture and stir for 5 minutes. Don't forget to leave for the iris and pupil.
7. Add flavoring to the colored juice to taste (to obtain a mint flavor). You can do without it. Then add the remaining gelatin. A quarter of a teaspoon should remain for the pupil.
8. In a round shape, at the very bottom, carefully drop a few dark drops of juice into the center. Place in the refrigerator for about half an hour. During this time, our pupil should freeze.
9. Carefully pour the blue juice on top. Let it freeze again, now for an hour.
10. Pour half of the sour cream mixture over the blue layer. When it has hardened about halfway, place chopped berries or jam in the center. Add the rest of the mixture and refrigerate overnight.
11. Before turning the mold over onto a flat plate, you need to keep the finished dessert warm for 5-10 minutes so that it is sure to come off the walls. Or wipe the outside of the dish with a warm cloth.
12. Ready! The eye with bloody contents came out very realistic and tasty. Be sure to try it!

Recipes for the little ones

If there are kids at the party, then children's dishes must be present. Organize a separate buffet table for little guests. Sometimes you can’t force them to eat hot dishes, but snacks and sweets are sacred for children. And on the eve of All Saints' Day, you need to come up with something special, memorable and terribly tasty.

Hell's peppers

For the main course, I suggest choosing these cute stuffed peppers. The filling can be navy-style spaghetti, with meat and tomatoes, or rice with vegetables and cheese. The main thing is to carefully cut out a nose, a scary smile and eyes in a multi-colored pepper. Then stuff them with the prepared filling, add grated cheese on top and place in the oven for 20 minutes. Don't worry if the filling starts to come out of the holes. This will be even more impressive, and the kids will eat them with pleasure.

Sausage mummies

No child will refuse such a snack. It's the same hot dog, only cooler. You will need a package of puff pastry, some mayonnaise, sausages, and an egg.

Preparation:

1. Defrost the dough, roll it out and cut it into even strips.
2. Carefully and tightly wrap each sausage.
3. Place in the oven for about 15-20 minutes. Then take it out, brush it with beaten egg using a pastry brush and leave it again for 5 minutes.
4. Our mummies are ready. All that remains is to make them eyes from mayonnaise and a piece of olive. It is not forbidden to add ketchup.

Witch's brooms

You can easily make such a simple snack in half an hour. You will need straws (sweet or salty), cheese (regular or braided), green onions or fresh dill. We cut the cheese into slices and make an even thin fringe. If you have a braided cheese, you won’t have to cut anything. Now we carefully wrap it around the edge of the straw and tie it tightly with onion or dill. We put it on a plate in disarray, as if the witches really flew to the Sabbath and threw their brooms at random.

Damn salad in orange

To get kids to eat salad, you need to present it correctly and effectively. For children, we cut out the pulp from oranges with our own hands and create eyes, a nose and a terrible crooked smile. Looks like mini pumpkins for Halloween, right? Now fill them with any salad. It could be a banal Olivier salad or a cocktail salad of ham and cheese, or maybe a finely chopped fruit mixture. We hand out small dessert spoons and invite you to try.

Bloody apples

There are many beautiful apple desserts. Recipes for apples in caramel or hot chocolate are popular. They are certainly beautiful, but we need them to be just hellishly beautiful. Therefore, we make bloody apples using wooden sticks, on which we put fruit and dip them in white chocolate. Pour red jam or topping in the form of bloody smudges onto the frozen glaze.

Edible caterpillars

This healthy vitamin dessert is made in minutes and eaten in seconds. Take note! To prepare it, we need wooden kebab skewers and seedless quiche-mish grapes. Place the berries on skewers, decorate the outermost one with drops of melted chocolate to create eyes, and serve.

Traditional Halloween Drinks

Such delicacies cannot be eaten dry; they must be washed down. I advise you to give preference to red drinks. For kids, tomato, cherry, and pomegranate juice are suitable. And adults can drink wine in honor of the holiday, or something stronger. For example, this originally designed Bloody Mary. What do you think of the idea?

If you decide to serve light drinks, then do not forget to decorate the glasses, for example, like this.

Or like this.

Or maybe you’ll like this option. Simple and tasteful.

Don't forget to create a general atmosphere. Buy white and red candles. Melt the latter and drip a little onto the white ones to make it look like blood. Cut out silhouettes of bats from black paper and hang them around the apartment in the most unexpected places, and make ghosts out of balls and ordinary gauze.

The tablecloth on the table should not be snow-white and immaculate. It’s better if you find an old one, which you won’t mind throwing away later, and properly mutilate it, tear it, scorch the edges, and stain it with red paint. You can write the names of dishes on pieces of paper, attach them to toothpicks and insert them into each masterpiece. In a word, fantasize, dear readers, - I’m sure you’ll get a terribly tasty dinner with all the necessary paraphernalia.

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How to bake Witch's Fingers cookies:

1. Beat butter and sugar until fluffy. Add the egg and flavorings (if you have almond essence, then you don’t need to add cinnamon and cardamom), mix everything. Add flour, baking powder and salt and stir until smooth.
2. If you want to make your fingers green, add a little green food coloring and mix the dough thoroughly. If the color is too pale, add more dye.
3. Cover the bowl with the dough with cling film and put it in the refrigerator for 30-40 minutes.
4. Preheat the oven to 165°C. Take a quarter of the dough from the refrigerator and begin to shape the fingers. Focus on your little fingers. Place the finger blank on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Place an almond on the tip and press down well (you can take peeled or unpeeled almonds, as well as nut halves). If the almonds are too large, then your finger can be made thicker. Form a knuckle by squeezing the dough from the sides below and above the knuckle. Using a knife, make folds of the finger. Repeat the procedure to form the remaining fingers. Place your fingers on the baking sheet at a distance of 1-2 cm from each other.
5. Bake the cookies for 15-20 minutes or until lightly golden if your fingers are not green.
6. Cool the cookies and start decorating. There are several options here. First, you can lightly dust your white fingers with cocoa using a brush. This will make your fingers look more contrasty and dirty. Secondly, if the almonds separate from the dough, you can pull them out and pour red jam into the hole so that when the almonds are returned, “blood” oozes from the nail bed. If you can't get the almonds out, just pour a little jam around the nail. Thirdly, dip the “cut off” part of your fingers into the jam, and also stain your knuckles with jam.
7. You can serve the “Witch’s Fingers” cookies on their own, or you can suggest dipping them into a bowl of “bloody” jam. Bon appetit!

See what else “Witch’s fingers” can look like (the picture is clickable and will open in a new tab).

Sweet “Witches’ Brooms”

A witch can do without fingers, but not without a broom. Witches' brooms, in both sweet and savory forms, are a Halloween menu item. I suggest you make sweet and salty witches brooms.

Sweet “Witches’ Brooms”

The main ingredient of sweets are small candies - chocolate, fudge, toffee, jelly, etc. in the form of a truncated cone or hemisphere with a ribbed surface.

Ingredients:

• Salty straw
• Candies with ribbed surface

How to make the sweet “Witch’s Broom”:

1. Using a stick or toothpick, make a hole of a suitable diameter in the tops of the candies and insert a salty straw into it. If the candy filling is too liquid, then try not to turn the finished brooms over so as not to get dirty. Warn your guests about this.
2. If you are making brooms as gifts or for distributing Halloween candy, then you do not need to remove the wrapper from the candy first.

Dessert “Cemetery land”

A delicious and spooky dessert for Halloween. The recipe can be in several versions, choose the one that suits you best.

Ingredients:

• Chocolate pudding or chocolate jelly
• Chocolate cookies (possibly with a milk layer)
• Gummy worms

How to make the “Cemetery Ground” dessert:

Sweet cockroaches

On Halloween, all kinds of insects are held in high esteem. We have already used worms in the recipe. Now I propose to make a dish with our pets - cockroaches. You can make several types of sweet cockroaches for Halloween. Choose the option you like.

Sweet chocolate and stuffed cockroaches for Halloween

Ingredients for chocolate cockroaches:

• Dates – 700 g
• Chocolate – 2 bars

Ingredients for stuffed cockroaches:

• Dates – 700 g
• Soft cream cheese - 230 g
• Walnuts, chopped - 1 cup (optional)
• Cuttings from berries (cherries, cherries, etc.) - a few pieces (optional)

How to make chocolate cockroaches:

1. Make “cockroach” preparations from dates. To do this, use a sharp knife to cut one side of the date lengthwise and carefully remove the pit through the cut. Cover the date and press it down a little to make it flat. Process all the dates in a similar manner.
2. Melt the chocolate (dark or milk) in a water bath. Dip each date halfway into the liquid chocolate and place on a plate lined with parchment paper.
3. Place the dish with sweets in the refrigerator until the chocolate has completely hardened.
4. When serving, decorate the dish with chocolate cockroaches with plastic cockroach figures.

How to cook stuffed cockroaches:

1. Remove the pits from the dates.
2. Mix cream cheese with chopped walnuts. But you can use just cheese, without nuts.
3. Using a pastry bag, fill the “cockroaches” with filling. Press the dates down to make them flatter.
4. Place the stuffed prussians on a plate, cut side down. If possible, decorate several date cockroaches with antennae from berry cuttings, and also place plastic insect figurines on a plate.

If you wish, you can “marry” chocolate and stuffed cockroaches. Then you will succeed, as you understand, chocolate stuffed cockroaches .

Gift “Monster Hand”

If Halloween is just around the corner, and you have absolutely no time or desire to prepare treats, then I offer you a “quick fix” option - the “Monster’s Hand” gift. It's easy to do it yourself. In addition, you can choose your own filling for each person to whom you will give the “Hand”.

What is needed for a gift:

• Polyethylene or surgical gloves
• Braid, ropes or threads for ties
• Sweet popcorn, candies, cookies, chocolates, chewing gum, etc.
• Plastic insect figurines for decoration (optional)

How to make a “Monster Hand” gift:

1. Fill the gloves with candy filling. To imitate nails, you can first put a red (or whatever you like) candy into each finger of the glove. To form fingers, you can use long candies or candies packaged in a tube.
2. If desired, place plastic insects inside the gloves.
3. Twist the bells of the gloves and tie them with braid, string or thread.
4. You can also decorate the “Hands” with insects on top.

Friends, I wish you and your loved ones a happy Halloween and delicious treats! If you haven’t yet learned Halloween songs and come up with makeup, I suggest you.

Interesting? Tell your friends!

What date is Halloween celebrated?

On the night of October 31 to November 1, All Saints Day is celebrated in the United States. On this day, people dress up in scary costumes and have fun. Food for Halloween should be appropriate for the occasion. Nowadays, this holiday has become popular in Russia; it is mainly celebrated by adults at themed parties. Abroad, it is celebrated by both children and adults; children dress up as monsters, go to their neighbors and demand candy.

Halloween is a holiday when the dead come into the world of the living and to scare them away, people dress up in scary costumes. The main symbol is considered to be a pumpkin; it is from this that lanterns are made and placed near the house.

As for the food: it should be scary too. You can make different cocktails, and add candy worms in the middle, cut monsters out of vegetables, or bake scary cupcakes.

Today I'm going to show you 3 Halloween food ideas that you can easily make yourself. We'll be making a cheese appetizer in the shape of a broom, an egg appetizer in the shape of a pumpkin, and a scary drink. All these dishes are prepared very quickly and simply, but in some recipes you need to know secrets in order to prepare them correctly, which I will definitely share with you.

Food for Halloween - recipes with photos

A broom is one of the attributes of Halloween, so you definitely need to prepare something interesting in the form of a broom. This is a very simple and effective snack that adults and children will definitely enjoy. What could be tastier than melted cheese with crispy straws? It is prepared very quickly and simply, the main thing is to have all the necessary ingredients on hand and know some secrets, because without them the appetizer may not work.

Ingredients

• Processed cheese plates – 1 package
• Salted straws – 1 pack
• Green onions or green stems

Cooking

I bought salted straws, you can buy them in any store in packaging or by weight. Let's break it into two even parts.

I used processed cheese and slices; there is also hard cheese, but it seems to me that it will not work as it will break. Carefully remove the packaging and cut it into two even parts.

To prevent the cheese from sticking to your hands, wet your hands with water, take half the cheese and make cuts with scissors. Cut carefully and leave a distance of 0.5 cm at the top so that the broom does not tear. Place straws on top.

Gently twist the cheese around the straw. If the brooms are different in size, you can trim the fringe with scissors.

Now take a stem of parsley or a leaf of green onion. It is more convenient to tie with an onion, since the parsley stem is coarser and breaks. Slightly wilted onions are easier to tie than fresh ones. But I only had parsley on hand. We tie it, but not too tightly, so as not to break the cheese.

These are the cheese brooms we got! Place them in the refrigerator until guests arrive; I don’t recommend keeping them in the refrigerator for a long time; the straws may become soft. Bon appetit!

A scary drink for Halloween

You want your party to be unforgettable and interesting, you definitely need to prepare and put together a menu of scary dishes. No holiday is complete without drinks or cocktails. Of course, you can go to the store and buy different spiders or cockroaches, but you can do everything yourself and without much waste. Today I will show you how you can add wine, sangria, juice, compote, or mulled wine. We will make scary faces that will float in the drink and scare the guests. The main alcohol or juice should be red in color so that it resembles blood. The dishes must be transparent or white, then the drink looks more impressive.

Scary Halloween Drink Recipe

Ingredients

• Wine – 1 l.
• Apples - 2 pcs.

Cooking

We take a transparent container, it can be a glass, large salad bowl. If you don’t have transparent dishes, take white ones, but under no circumstances colored ones, they will ruin the whole look. Pour wine or other drink.

Take an apple and peel it. We take an apple peeler, which removes the core, and cut out the eyes. It is with this that they turn out even, but you can also cut them with a knife. I cut out the mouth with a knife, the main thing is to make it scary, not smiling.

Then, I put these apples in the wine and they floated down on the wrong side of my face. I found a way out, cut off the back of the apple, almost half. You can make another face on the other half.

Now, you can safely put apples in the drink, faces will float on top. Add ice if desired. Have a nice evening!

Pumpkin Egg Snack

Pumpkin is a symbol of the holiday. Therefore, it must be present on the table. I suggest you prepare a very tasty appetizer of eggs stuffed with carrots and cheese. Delicate eggs with a spicy filling are perfect for a celebration. Serving in the form of a bright pumpkin will add the right atmosphere and mood. It will not be difficult for you to prepare such a dish, the main thing is to have desire and imagination. You can add smoked chicken, pumpkin or cream cheese to the filling.

What to cook for Halloween

Ingredients

• Egg – 3 pcs.
• Carrots – 1 pc.
• Hard cheese – 30 g.
• Mayonnaise – 1 tsp
• Salt, black pepper - a pinch

Cooking

Place the eggs in boiling water and cook for 15 minutes until cooked. We take them out and put them in cold water, wait until they cool down. Peel them from the shell, cut them in half, take out the yolk.

The carrots must be juicy and sweet, otherwise the filling will not be tasty. Grate the carrots and cheese on a fine grater. Carrots can be ground in a blender.

Add squeezed garlic, crushed yolks, mayonnaise, salt and ground black pepper, mix everything with a spoon into a homogeneous mass.

This is the mass we got.

Place the carrot spread in the egg and use your finger to make a smooth, round surface.

Take a sprig of parsley and cut off pieces of the stem from it. We will use them as tails for pumpkins.

Use a knife to make cuts in the pumpkin to make the vegetable more beautiful. Our appetizer is ready. Bon appetit!

So, we can summarize: food for Halloween can be varied, the main thing is to show your imagination and present it beautifully, then the holiday atmosphere will intensify and bring bright impressions.

Must be original and intimidating. Making them is not very difficult. However, when preparing such delicacies you will have to show all your creative imagination. After all, this is the only way to make unusual desserts that all your invited guests will appreciate.

Cookies "Witch's fingers"

Witch finger Halloween treats are a classic of the genre. And if you have never tried making such a dessert, then we will present its recipe in more detail.

So, we will need:

• white flour - about 3 cups;
• softened butter - about 230 g;
• medium-sized sugar - a glass;
• large fresh egg - 1 pc.;
• baking powder - a small spoon;
• salt - 2/3 of a small spoon;
• vanillin - a small bag;
• whole peeled almonds - 10-30 pcs.;
• red jam - several large spoons.

Knead the dough

The Halloween treats for which we are reviewing recipes are a pleasure to prepare. Such desserts are made very quickly, but they turn out incredibly beautiful and original. Before baking the Witch's Fingers cookies, you should knead the base. To do this, you need to soften the cooking fat, beat it together with sugar and egg, and then add baking powder, vanillin and salt. After obtaining a homogeneous mass, add white flour and knead the elastic dough.

Correctly forming and baking dessert

Having made the sand base, you should immediately begin shaping the cookies. To do this, you need to pinch off a piece of dough and roll it into a sausage that is as close as possible to the size and shape of a real human finger. If necessary, several grooves can be made on the products to imitate folds. You should also place whole peeled almonds on one end of the cookie. In this form, all the cookies need to be moved to a baking sheet and baked in the oven for half an hour. During this time, the “fingers” will be completely cooked and will become rosy and crispy.

Decorating the dessert

Homemade Halloween treats always turn out not only very beautiful, but also delicious. After all, such desserts are prepared without various additives and dyes.

After the Witch's Fingers are completely baked, they should be removed and cooled. Next, you need to carefully remove the almonds, grease the attachment point with red jam and reinstall the “nut-nail”. It is also recommended to color the other end of the cookie. As a result, you should get a very tasty and terrifying delicacy that quite closely resembles the severed fingers of a witch.

Original dessert “Cemetery land”

How to make unusual treats for Halloween?

Recipes for such delicacies may involve the use of completely different components. To make a dessert called “Cemetery Ground”, you need to stock up on the following ingredients:

• ready-made mixture for making chocolate pudding or chocolate jelly - at your discretion;
• chocolate cookies (very dark) - 300 g;
• chewing worms - 10-20 pcs.

Cooking process

Graveyard Halloween Halloween treats are pretty easy to make. First you need to prepare jelly using a ready-made mixture. Next, it should be poured into small bowls (it is recommended to fill the containers 2/3 full) and wait until it hardens completely. After this, you need to grind the dark chocolate cookies to crumbs and place them on top of the pudding. Finally, the dessert needs to be decorated so that it seems that they are literally crawling out of the cemetery soil.

Making “Monster Eyes”

Simple Halloween treats require readily available ingredients. To make an original dessert called “Eyes of the Monster” in a matter of minutes, we will need:

• round chocolate cookies with a white layer - about 300 g;
• red jam - a few spoons;
• multi-colored M&M's candies - pack.

Cooking method

Monster Eyes Halloween treats are pretty easy to create.

For this we need dark chocolate cookies, which should be divided into two parts. On the one where the white layer remains, you need to stick an M&M’s candy with the lettering facing down. After this, the “whites of the eyes” need to be painted with red jam, which will imitate blood vessels. At the end, the dessert must be kept in the cold, and then beautifully placed on a plate and served along with tea.

As for the half of the cookie where there is no white cream left, it can be used to make a delicacy called “Cemetery Ground”.

Preparing the “Witch’s Broom” delicacy

DIY Halloween treats are pretty easy to make. If you want to get an original sweet dish, but you don’t have time to cook it for a long time, then we suggest using the recipe described below.

For this we need:

• salted straw - a small pack;
• chocolate candies with a ribbed surface (it is advisable to purchase round ones) - 10-20 pcs.

How to cook?

Treats made from sweets are the simplest and most delicious. To make a witch's broom, turn the ribbed treat over and then poke a small hole in the center with a toothpick. After this, we place a salted straw in it. This should be done extremely carefully, especially if the candy is filled with liquid filling.

To make the formed dessert look as much like a witch’s broom as possible, it is recommended to additionally coat it with chocolate glaze. To do this, melt one of the candies in the microwave and then apply it to the treat using a pastry brush.

If you decide to prepare such an extraordinary dish as a gift or treat it to invited guests, then you don’t have to remove the wrapper from the sweets. However, in this case, you should no longer grease them with glaze.

Dessert “Cockroaches”

Now you know how to make Halloween treats. At the end of this article, I would like to present to your attention another original dessert called “Cockroaches”. For it we will need:

• dates - 10-30 pcs.;
• milk or dark chocolate - 3 bars;
• cherry cuttings - depending on the amount of dessert (not necessary);
• peeled roasted walnuts - 100 g.

Forming "cockroaches"

To make this intimidating delicacy, you should wash the dates in advance and then remove the pit from them. Instead, it is recommended to place a small fried piece of walnut in dried fruits. Also, cuttings from cherries should be inserted into the dates, which will imitate the whiskers of cockroaches.

The process of decorating sweet "cockroaches"

To make such a dessert more tasty and original, it should be additionally dipped in it. It is done as follows: the milk delicacy is broken into slices, and then placed in a ceramic or glass bowl and melted in the microwave. After this, 2/3 of the date is dipped into the warm glaze, which is subsequently placed in the refrigerator. When the chocolate has completely hardened, the dried fruits can be safely placed in a bowl and served along with tea.

30.10.2016

On the night of October 31st to November 1st, Halloween is celebrated. And although it obviously has mystical roots, today everything is much simpler. This is a holiday of mischief, buffoonery and... childhood. After all, never again will people eat so much candy and make so many incredibly beautiful and very sweet desserts, extort candy from their neighbors and don’t wear creepy costumes to drive away death. Sweets are a guide to childhood. Try carving pumpkins and cooking something traditional – it’s very tasty! And if you’ve never tried it before, it’s also educational.

A bit of history

When the British began settling America in the 1600s, they brought Halloween traditions with them. Not as popular as they are now, Halloween traditions grew in the New World but did not become popular until the early 20th century, when the modern version of the holiday emerged.

Culinary traditions have been preserved to this day. And their main component is sweets. Candy, sweet corn, pumpkins, apples - this is what Americans eat on Halloween. Of course, they are complemented by modern dishes like witch fingers cookies, cupcakes with cute bat figurines and millions of versions of bloody drinks. But we will only focus on the traditional table.

Sweet bread Barmbrek

Barmbrek – barley butter bread with raisins and dried apricots. It is the central candy in the Irish version of Halloween. It is also called “Bread of All Saints” and is used for fortune telling games. A stick, a silver coin, a ring, or a piece of cloth is placed into one or more loaves. Each item symbolizes something - from misfortune and poverty to wealth and marriage next year.

Caramel apples

One of the most popular desserts has two types: soft caramel and sugar hard caramel. Try both at once!

Use Fuji and Granny Smith varieties: firm, crisp and tart. They go well with sweet caramel and hold their shape at high temperatures.

Apples in sugar caramel (Candy apples) appeared more than a hundred years ago by pure chance. One American confectioner, William Kolb, was looking for ways to sell more red cinnamon caramel in 1908. And he came up with the idea that you could dip apples in it and then sell them on a stick. It is bright, beautiful and very fabulous. Within a couple of years, apples in a red glossy crust became the number one autumn sweet, especially on Halloween.

You can see how to prepare these caramel apples in the Mozart Cake recipe. Pierre Herme. Add a little red or black food coloring to the caramel and your apples will become a "terribly beautiful" decoration for your Halloween table.

Apples in soft caramel (Caramel/ Toffy apples). Wrapped in what we used to call “toffee,” they appeared much later. They were invented by Kraft Foods employee Dan Walker in the 1950s. Like the candy version, this one was invented during experiments with sweets for sale on Halloween. He simply melted soft caramel and dipped the apples in it - that's the whole story.

Bonfire toffee (tempered caramel)

This caramel is prepared on the basis of molasses - dark molasses. It is a hard, bitter candy strongly associated with Halloween and Bonfire Night in the UK. It is more of a lollipop than a soft chewy candy.

Soul cake – small round biscuits very popular in Britain. It is baked at Halloween to be given to children and the poor in exchange for a promise to pray for the dead. Today this tradition is not as common as "sweets in exchange for wishes", but it is known in Portugal and north-east England.

Cookies are usually made from shortcrust pastry and add cinnamon, ginger, and raisins. Before baking, a cross is drawn on the cookies. It is traditionally served with a glass of wine.