Scary , Easy Halloween Food
Compiled by Jeanne Coates
Spider Pizzas :
Supplies : Packaged frozen mini pizza bagels , pitted whole black olives .
Bake per package directions . Use pitted black olives to fashion spiders on top of pizza bagels .
Apple Monsters :
Supplies : Green apples , quartered . Peanut butter , nut pieces , strawberries , sliced and medium candy eyeballs .
Using a sharp knife , cut a mouth out of each apple quarter . Fill the gap with peanut butter . Press nuts and strawberry piece into peanut butter to resemble teeth and a tongue . Using a small dab of peanut butter , attach one or two candy eyeballs onto apple above mouth .
Monster Wraps :
Supplies : Large spinach wraps , favorite sandwich filling , sliced cheddar cheese and / or nori ( seaweed wraps ) for hair and mouth , Sliced pimento-stuffed olives for eyes , whole olives for bolts and cornichon pickles whole for bolts , halved for eyebrows and nose .
Fill each wrap with desired sandwich filling and roll up like a burrito . Cut cheese slices and / or nori in half and cut triangle shapes for hair . Place on half of wrap . Cut remining half into long strips for mouth . Cut smallest pickles in half lengthwise for eyebrows . Cut a thin slice for nose . Place olive slices for eyes . Use toothpicks to secure two olives or pickles to sides of wrap for Frankenstein ’ s bolts .
Halloween Worm Sandwich :
Supplies : 8 hotdogs , hamburger buns , 3 tbsp . ketchup or barbecue sauce , 1 tsp cooking oil
Cut each hotdog lengthwise into 4 or 6 pieces . Heat oil in non-stick skillet and fry hotdog strips until they curl . Gently stir ketchup or barbeque sauce with the hotdogs . Toast hamburger buns in the oven for a few minutes . Add curled hotdogs ( worms ) and serve .
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