Halloween food

Our daughter planned a Halloween sleepover with scary movies and activities to do. Her friend could only come over mid month so we had an early Halloween party. She wanted Halloween food and got carried away looking online for inspiration. As I watched the basket price increasing she showed me her favourite ideas for the night. We agreed on a few recipes and some snacks and set to work.

With the online shopping being u reliable and substitutions being so random we had to order for delivery two days before the party from Asda and the day before the party for Tesco. As expected, Asda didn't send half the order so we picked it up on the morning of the party instead. 

Our shopping list was huge. Even making an eye required a raisin, cocktail cherry, lychee and a cocktail stick. I couldn't get lychee sadly so we had smaller eyes but they worked well.

We settled on monster face burgers, graveyard bolognese dip for gravestone tortilla chips, blood punch with eye balls, ghost bananas, pumpkin satsumas, strawberry ghosts, Halloween biscuits, crisps, olive spiders, rice crispie marshmallow brains and Halloween shaped cheese on toast.

Making the gluten free, vegan, soya free biscuits the day before the party was fun. My daughter and I worked together to make the dough mix, roll and shape it before baking and finally decorating each biscuit. They were my favourite.

We cut the olives into spider body parts, made eyeballs with cocktail cherries and raisins, cut celery for the mini pumpkins, made icing colours and mixed melted marshmallows with rice crispies to create brain shapes. 

On the morning of the party we made the mini pumpkins up, decorated strawberries and bananas as ghosts, cut the bread ready for cheese on toast and cut the cheese into tooth shapes. We also made the bolognese in the slow cooker throughout the day so it woukd be fresh for tea. 

When her friend arrived we put everything together and laid the table. We had a supermarket Halloween table cloth and paper plates, skeletons and the room has been decorated for Halloween for weeks. Our Christmas tree has lights and a ghost sheet with mask on it. It looks amazing. 

We all sat down together with the Halloween buffet to watch The nightmare before  Christmas, the Halloween classic. None of the activities got done and they only watched that one film but at least my daughter and her friend had a good time and enjoyed the food. It lasted us a couple of days and nothing was wasted.