Halloween Finger Food and Drinks

Easy Party Snacks for a Fall Buffet Meal: Cookies, Drinks, Dips

Aug 20, 2008

These tasty Halloween recipes for appetizers and treats are simple to make and will bring a smile to your guests' faces.

Guests will love these delicious Halloween themed finger foods, and a buffet is ideal for a Halloween fancy dress party. There are lots of exciting surprises in store in this selection of simple to make Halloween buffet recipes.

Halloween Cookies

There is a fabulous range of Halloween Cookie Cutters available for your Halloween themed cookies. Add spooky ghost, bat, bone and cat cookies to your party buffet, you’ll be sure to bring a smile to the faces of your guests! Be creative with chocolate coloring and creepy icing designs on your cookies.

You may like to cut out your own paper silhouette to decorate your cookies. Place the silhouette over the cooked cookie and dust with fine icing powder using a fine sieve.

Scary Smoked Salmon Bites

This simple recipe is delicious, healthy and looks great at any Halloween party. Grate a little raw or cooked beetroot into fine strands. Chop smoked salmon into short, thin lengths. Carefully stir the two together with a wooden spoon until well mixed; the salmon will take on the deep red color of the beetroot.

Mix a natural green food coloring into cream cheese until it takes on a suitably Halloween hue. Spread the green cream cheese onto small shapes of brown bread, or even better, German style black bread. You may like to use Halloween Cookie Cutters or these Free Simple Halloween Outline Shapes to create spooky bread shapes! Spoon a little of the smoked salmon and beetroot mix onto the green cream cheese.

Gruesome Halloween Dips

Red Pepper Hummus. Add a teaspoon of sweet paprika powder to the ingredients of a basic recipe for hummus to add a holiday theme to this delicious dip. Add extra red chili powder to taste if desired.

Guacamole is always a favorite dip that already has a wonderfully revolting Halloween color! To add to the Halloween effect, add a few chopped pumpkin seeds. Serve alongside the other gruesome Halloween dips to complete the effect.

Orange Cream Cheese Turmeric is a fantastic, natural, orange coloring. Mix a teaspoon of turmeric with 200g cream cheese and 100g yogurt, and stir the mixture gently but firmly with a wooden spoon until blended. Adjust the proportion of yogurt to cream cheese if necessary.

Accompany your dips with flour tortillas cut into gruesome shapes using your Halloween Cookie Cutters, brushed on both sides with vegetable oil mixed with chili powder and seasoning to taste. Bake on a baking tray in a cool oven ( 140°C, 275°C, gas mark 1), turn after ten minutes, then put back in the oven until crunchy, approximately fifteen minutes total baking time.

Drinks and Decorations

Mulled wine and mulled cider are wonderful warming drinks for any Halloween party. Decorate your tables with small apples alongside the more traditional carved pumpkins for a cozy autumnal feel.

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