Halloween Party! (merged)

dooj

Make chocolate Angel delight or mousse in individual cups then put jelly worms on top or mix jelly worms in. Easy and effective.

Suppose you could also do this with chocolate ice cream

Chris25

try mini pretzels dipped in white chocolate and left to dry - they look like mini skulls! You used to be able to get them here in little foil packs (were they called Flipz?) you can still get them in the States.

sarahmelita

If you can get hold of a copy of Nigella's Feast book, there's a whole section on Halloween food.

Chris25

Eager_Elephant wrote:

Here's a few more ideas:

LIZARD ICE BOWL

This makes a fun serving bowl for ice cream or any other cold dessert. Shpuld be made at least 24 hours in advance.

You will need 2 freezer proof glass mixing bowls of different sizes. The smaller one should fit inside the bigger one leaving at least an inch gap.

Fill the larger bowl with cold water to a deoth of about 4cm. Sprinkle in some plastic lizards from a joke shop.

Put in freezer until frozen.

Remove from the freezer and place the smaller bowl on top of the frozen layer and weigh it down. Pour in more water between the two bowls and add more lizards.

Return to the freezer.

Once fully frozen, you can remove the inner bowl by wiping the inside with a cloth which has been run under hot water and then wrung out.

Twist gently and the inner bowl will loosen.

To remove the outer bowl dip in warm water and twist to remove.

Return ice bowl to freezer until needed.

EE

A brilliant idea - I've made these bowls for a summer parties with things like geraniums and fern but would never thought of this.

If you use bottled mineral water rather than tap water, the bowl doesn't come out so cloudy, although for this item, it probably more atmospheric as it is!

halloweenqueen_2

I've got one of those ice bowl makers but it wouldn't have crossed my mind to do - thanks!
i've got some halloween sweets I was going to put on top of iced fairy cakes and i got some spooky cocktail sticks for the ususal sausage on a stick and bits of cheese (so seventies i know!!!)
the angel delight sounds disgusting - great - thanks :0)

chickadee

Fay,

If you get the chance, have a look in Nigella Lawson's book Feast. She devotes a whole chapter to halloween, with recipes such as Slime soup (pea soup), Blood and guts Potatoes (baked potatoes with mozzarella and ketchup), Witches Hair (Black spaghetti), Blood Clots (mushed up red jellies), Pus (lime jelly made up with milk - ideal to be served with blood clots) and a Ghoul Graveyard cake, which is simply a cake iced with black icing with some of those moulded jelly lollies pushed into it.

Sounds like a brilliant Halloween menu to me!

Chris25

There are some spooky CDs on here....... http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00000JJ9R/ref=pd_cps_m_1/102-9040987-3838521?v=glance&s=music

What about..........excerpts from 'Rocky Horror', 'Phantom', Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', Chic's 'Freak Out'?

There's another song that's popular with teens but I can't remember what it's called :rolleyes: - it was brought out by a group that got together after losing Pop Idol/Fame Academy type show. I'll post it if I remember more details.

I think it was called 'Things that go bump in the night' and the group had a TV series also. They might have been called *something* Street. I think they did a Quality Street ad too.

I'll hum it, perhaps you can pick it up from that

Fay

I have just ordered the Nigella book, feast. The thing is that we are having an adult only party...we don't have kids and neither do most of our mates. So alcoholic drinks will need to be devised and I think I might do a big bowl of (very hot) chilli hehe The grave stone cake sounds fab though and if it doesn't get eaten I can give it to my cousins.

I still need to think of a costume...don't really want to have to hire something, and it needs to be practical. I guess the one that springs to mind is a witch but its not very original is it...or perhaps a zombie like out of thriller?

Songs are sooooooo hard to come by. Tesco do a CD which is really cheap so I might get that, or I might try to download the songs onto our MP3 player....even cheaper!

Thanks for all of the ideas guys, some great tips on here

Breynia

I've done egg eyeballs before and they look effective. Take some hardboiled eggs and slice them lengthways. Carefully take out the half yolk and fill cavity with some mayo. Put the yolk back in the other way around and paint the 'eyeball' with food colouring. Some nice red veins look good!

Invisible thread tied to tomato stalks make great 'spiders' to hang from door frames etc.

You can pick up those polystyrene wig stands quite cheap. They are good for sticking bits of hair on and painting gruesome faces on them. I dug out the mouth on one once, and inserted my grandmas false teeth....looked really creepy!

Fay

Hi everyone, just to give you all a quick update! I have managed to get most of my halloween decorations now, mainly from asda and poundland. For anyone who is throwing a party, Poundland have some great things in. I had brought some halloween plates from asda, 20 for 97p, but in Poundland I got 40 plates and 40 napkins for £1. They also have large bags of sweets and tubs of lollypops...well worth a look. Not really OS but still nice and cheap )