Posts Tagged ‘Halloween Snacks’

Halloween Snacks: Ghost Toasts

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

We’re getting closer and closer to the big night, so we’re going to share another delicious and spooky treat with you. We’ve currently armed you with some fantastic looking scary fingers, so now it’s time for some spooky and crunchy treats…with Ghost Toasts!

Toasted bread, cream cheese and currents, creates some spooky Ghost Toasts!

Toasted bread, cream cheese and currants, creates some spooky Ghost Toasts! Photo from www.familyfun.go.com

Again, this quick method for creating spooky treats, will still require some knife carving skills, but you can also use a cookie cutter. After toasting your bread, you simply take the knife and cut out a shape above. It really isn’t as hard as it sounds and as long as you take it slow, you’ll easily be able to match the shapes, as seen in the photo above (you could even print out this page, so you can refer to the photo as you cut).

Once you’ve got the hang of the basic ghost shapes above, you can really get creative. Experiment with cutting different angled bottoms to the ghosts cloaks and you can even experiment with their arm positions, if you feel that extra bit creative.

Once you’re done with cutting your ghost shapes, spread a generous amount of cream cheese all over the top of your ghost shapes. Make sure it’s even and thick, while making sure that not a single spec of toast can be seen through the cheese.

After that, it’s time to get creative with the eyes. This recipe uses currants for the ghost eyes, but if you prefer to use some chocolate or jelly sweets, they could be much more friendly on the kids taste buds. Dark chocolate drops, would be excellent for the dark eyes and black jelly sweets, would also give the same effect.

For the full step-by-step recipe, visit:

http://familyfun.go.com/halloween/halloween-recipes/halloween-snacks-treats/ghost-toasts-689005

The Disney Family Fun website, really has been fantastic at offering some imaginative Halloween Treats. We’ll continue to keep our eyes open for some more cheesy Halloween treats and share them with you all, as soon as we see them.

Halloween Snacks: Scary Cheesy Fingers

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

Halloween is almost here, so instead of heading out to buy the same old chocolate treats, why not get creative and wow those littleĀ  ‘Trick or Treat’ monsters with something imaginative and delicious!

You’ll really be amazed with how many Halloween snacks you can create, as well as the every day foods you can make them with. Our first Halloween treat, is the Scary Finger. A Halloween classic, but made delicious with Mozzarella String Cheese.

This great recipe requires some simple knife skills (carefully cutting cheese strings in half, with groves for the nails) and some simple artistic flair (simple line marks to give those cheese strings, some finger detail).

Cream cheese is used to stick the nails together and these are made from green pepper, but you could use a more ‘child friendly’ treat for this, such as jelly sweets or chocolate, carved to a nail shape. Chocolate buttons would be perfect for nails, as they’ll be much easier to shape and will already have the perfect thickness for a nail. Just do your best, not to handle them with bear fingers, or they’ll melt.

Cheese, cream cheese and pepper, have never looked so scary!

Cheese, cream cheese and pepper, create a superb Halloween treat. Photo from www.familyfun.go.com

For the full step-by-step recipe, visit:

http://familyfun.go.com/recipes/cheese-finger-food-685121

We’ll be bringingĀ  you more great Halloween treats, before those scary little monsters knock your door.